Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath PhD. Candidate, Advisor: Prof. Amin Vahdat, Department of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego Curriculum Vitae (Updated March 2008) Research Statement (upon request)

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Research Interests

• Distributed Systems, Networks, Operating Systems, Algorithms, Databases.

Research Output

USENIX '08	Evaluating Distributed Systems: Does Background Traffic Matter? Proceedings of USENIX 2008, Boston, MA. Kashi Vishwanath, Amin Vahdat
NSDI '08	DieCast: Testing Distributed Systems with an Accurate Scale Model Proceedings of NSDI 2008, San Francisco, USA, To Appear. Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Vishwanath, Amin Vahdat
SIGCOMM '07 Best Student Paper	Cloud Control with Distributed Rate Limiting (Best Student Paper Award) Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2007, Kyoto, Japan. Barath Raghavan, Kashi Vishwanath, Sriram Ramabhadran, Kenneth Yocum, Alex C. Snoeren
SIGCOMM '06	Realistic and Responsive Network Traffic Generation. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2006, Pisa, Italy. [Slides .ppt] Kashi Vishwanath, Amin Vahdat
SIGCOMM '05	Swing: Generating Representative High-Speed Packet Traces. Extended Abstract, ACM SIGCOMM 2005, Philadelphia Kashi Vishwanath, Amin Vahdat
MASCOTS '04	Routing in an Internet-Scale Network Emulator Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems ( MASCOTS'04), October 2004. Jay Chen, Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Vishwanath, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat
WWW '03	Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Client Characterization Driven Web Server. Proceedings of WWW-2003, Budapest, May 2003. [Slides .ppt] Balachander Krishnamurthy, Craig Wills, Yin Zhang, Kashi Vishwanath

Current Projects

• Swing        Basecamp site (need login)
• Diecast      Basecamp site (need login)

Previous hops

• Department of Computer Science, Duke University(2001-2003)
• Department of Computer Science , Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1997-2001)
• Puranchandra Vidyaniketan , Kanpur, India(1991-1997)
• Dr. Virendra Swarup Memorial School, Kanpur, India (1985-1991)