Aruna Balasubramanian

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington
Seattle WA
206-543-3069 (email preferred)




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Bio
I am a Postdoctoral research associate (and a CI Fellow) at the University of Washington. I graduated with a Ph.D. from UMass Amherst. I got my Masters degree in Computer science from SUNY, Buffalo and my undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, India .
News

  • April 2013: We will be presenting a demo on WProf and a poster on Taintracking for Smartphone Energy Conservation at the NSDI poster and demo session.
  • December 2012: WProf paper accepted at NSDI
  • September 2012: FindAll accepted at CoNext
  • August 2012: Sigcomm dissertation runner-up award. Citation here.
  • July 2012: NSF NetS-small grant on smartphone power management funded!
  • March 2012: Tula paper accepted at Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • February 2012: Serving on the IMC Program Committee. The CFP is here
  • October 2011: Won the UMass outstanding dissertation award. News here and here
  • September 2011: Co-teaching the undergraduate networking class (CSE 461) this quarter. Course webpage

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    • Research
    My primary interests are in systems and networking. My current work involves architecting energy efficient and high performance mobile systems with an emphasis on user-driven design and evaluation.
    Recent papers [Detailed CV]

    Xiao Sophia Wang, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall. Demystifying Page Load Performance with WProf In Proceedings of Usenix NSDI, Lombard, IL, USA, April 2013

    A. Balasubramanian, N. Balasubramanian, S. J. Huston, D. Metzler, D. J. Wetherall. FindAll: A Local Search Engine for Mobile Phones In Proceedings of ACM CoNext, Nice, France, December, 2012. [pdf] [bibtex]

    J. Sorber, A. Balasubramanian, M. D. Corner, J. Ennen, C. Qualls. Tula: Balancing Energy for Sensing and Communication in a Perpetual Mobile System In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (to appear) [pdf]

    Xiaozheng Tie, Arun Venkataramani and Aruna Balasubramanian R3: Robust Replication Routing in Wireless Networks with Diverse Connectivity Characteristics In Proceedings of ACM Mobicom, Las Vegas, USA, September 2011 [pdf]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani Augmenting Mobile 3G Using WiFi: Measurement, Design, and Implementation In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys, San Francisco, USA, June 2010 [pdf] [Presentation] [bibtex].

    Eduardo Cuervo, Aruna Balasubramanian, Dae-ki Cho, Alec Wolman, Stefan Saroiu, Ranveer Chandra, Paramvir Bahl. MAUI: Making Smartphones Last Longer with Code offload. In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys, San Francisco, USA, June 2010 [pdf] [bibtex].

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani Replication Routing in DTNs: A Resource Allocation Approach In Proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Networking [pdf] [bibtex]

    Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arun Venkataramani Energy Consumption in Mobile Phones: A Measurement Study and Implications for Network Applications In Proceedings of ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, USA, November 2009 [pdf] [bibtex] [Technical Report] [Presentation]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani Enhancing Interactive Web Applications in Hybrid Networks In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, San Franciso, USA, September 2008. [pdf] [bibtex] [Presentation]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, Brian Levine, John Zahorjan, ViFi: Interactive WiFi Connectivity For Moving Vehicles , In Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm, Seattle, WA, USA, August 2008 [pdf] [Technical report] [bibtex] [Presentation]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Yun Zhou, Bruce Croft, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani Web Search from a Bus In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), Montreal, Canada, September 2007. [pdf] [bibtex] [Presentation]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem In Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm 2007, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007 [pdf] [Technical Report] [bibtex] [Presentation]

    In the popular press

  • The Network world article on Wiffler was slashdotted.
  • Our Wiffler work appeared as a feature story at MSR here and at Network world here.
  • Our ViFi work is featured in an article in Hampshire Gazette, Seattle PI and in Network world and has been reprinted in several other papers.
  • Our Rapid work appears in a Wiki entry and a popular blog

    • Thesis

    Architecting Robust Protocols for Diverse Mobile Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Feb 2011 [pdf] [Presentation][ACM Sigcomm Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-up] [UMass Outstanding Dissertation Award]

    (non-conference) Talks

  • FindAll: A Local Search Engine for Mobile Phones, February 2013, Georgia Tech.
  • FindAll: A Local Search Engine for Mobile Phones, January 2013, Google.
  • Augmenting Mobile 3G Using WiFi: Measurement, Design, and Implementation, May 2010, Winlab, Rutgers.
  • Architecting Protocols to Improve Connectivity in Diverse Mobile Networks, May 2010, IBM Research, Watson
  • Architecting Protocols to Improve Connectivity in Diverse Mobile Networks, April 2010, Cornell University
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    Selected Service

  • Chair: ICNP PhD Forum 2012, MobiSys PhD Forum 2009
  • PC Member
        2013 : IMC
        2012 : IMC, SECON
        2011: Mobicom, MobiSys
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