I work on Network Architecture, Protocols and Systems. Our group's current research at UCR includes Software Based Networks, exploiting virtualization in communication networks (Network Function Virtualization) and Software Defined Networking, networks for information dissemination (Information Centric Networks), Video delivery, and Internet of Things (IoT).
Location | 332 Winston Chung Hall - Riverside, CA 92521 |
Phone | (951) 827- 2480|
Ph.D.: University of Maryland, College Park, Dept. of Computer Science, 1983.
M.S.: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, 1981.
Masters in Engineering: Indian Institute of Science, School of Automation, Bangalore, India, 1978.
Bachelors in Electronics Engineering: Bangalore University, Bangalore, India, 1976.
ACM Fellow, 2017, recognized “for contributions to congestion control, operating system support for networks and virtual private networks”.
IEEE Fellow 2005, "for contributions to congestion control and traffic management in communication networks".
AT&T Fellow 2006, for "fundamental contributions to communications networks with lasting impact on AT&T and the industry, including congestion control, traffic management and VPN services".
ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Paper Award in 2006: for our paper on the "DECbit" congestion avoidance protocol - "A Binary Feedback Scheme for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks with a Connectionless Network Layer" published in the Proceedings of the ACM Sigcomm 1988.
AT&T Strategic Patent Award 2003, in recognition of a patent significantly contributing to AT&T's business.
AT&T Science and Technology Medal 2012, for "innovation and leadership in evaluation of mobile video delivery optimizations techniques."
Best Paper Awards:
Murat Yuksel, K. K. Ramakrishnan and Robert Doverspike, “Cross-Layer Failure Restoration Techniques to provide a Robust IPTV Service”, Proceedings of IEEE LANMAN 2008, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 2008 (Best Paper Award)
Mayutan Arumaithurai, Jiachen Chen, Edo Monticelli, Xiaoming Fu and K. K. Ramakrishnan, “Exploiting ICN for Flexible Management of Software-Defined Networks”, Proc. of 1st ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2014). (Best Paper Award)
Melissa Duarte, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Vaneet Aggarwal, Rittwik Jana, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Christopher Rice, N. K. Shankaranarayanan, “Design and Characterization of a Full-duplex Multi-antenna System for WiFi networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2013. (Recipient of the 2017 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award recognizing the Best Systems Paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology)
Ahmed Zahran, Jason Quinlan, Cormac Sreenan, K. K. Ramakrishnan, “SAP: Stall-Aware Pacing for Improved DASH Video Experience in Cellular Networks”, Proc. of 8th ACM Conference on Multimedia Systems, June 2017 (Recipient of DASH Industry Forum’s Excellence in DASH 1st Prize)
Jeffrey Erman, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Rittwik Jana, K. K. Ramakrishnan, “Towards a SPDY’ier Mobile Web?”, Proc. of CoNext 2013, Dec. 2013 (best paper runner up).
Mohammad Jahanian, K. K. Ramakrishnan, “Name Space Analysis: Verification of Named Data Network Data Planes”, Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking”, Sept. 2019, (Best Student Paper Award).
Liang Zhou, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, K. K. Ramakrishnan, “DREAM: DistRibuted Energy-Aware traffic Management for Data Center Networks”, Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, June 2019, (Best Paper finalist).
Junfeng Li, Dan Li, Wenfei Wu, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jinkun Geng, Fei Gui, Fanzhao Wang, and KaiZheng. “Sphinx: A Transport Protocol for High-Speed and Lossy Mobile Networks”. In Proceedings of the38th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference. IPCCC ’19.2019, (Best Paper Runner-up).
Mohammad Jahanian, Toru Hasegawa, Yoshinobu Kawabe, Yuki Koizumi, Amr Magdy, Masakatsu Nishigaki, Tetsushi Ohki, K. K. Ramakrishnan, “DiReCT: Disaster Response Coordination with Trusted Volunteers”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM), Dec. 2019. (Best Paper Award).
Best Demo Awards:
Jason Quinlan, Darijo Raca, Ahmed Zahran, Ahmed Khalid, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Cormac Sreenan, “D-LITE: A platform for evaluating DASH performance over a simulated LTE network”, Demo, IEEE LANMAN 2016 Symposium, Rome, Italy, June 2016. (Best Demo Award)
M. Jahanian, Y. Xing, J. Chen, K. K. Ramakrishnan, H. Seferoglu and M. Yuksel, "The Evolving Nature of Disaster Management in the Internet and Social Media Era," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), June 2018. (Best Demo Award)
Our research group is involved in a number of projects funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Defense, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), HP Labs - HPE, and Huawei Inc.
Select Projects:
Our NSF grant provides continued support for OpenNetVM that has been jointly developed by our group at the University of California Riverside and Tim Wood's group at George Washington University. Network Function Virtualization is a "disruptive" technology that changes networks to a software-defined infrastructure offering flexible services with network functions supported by software containers. OpenNetVM is an open source software platform that seeks to lower the barrier for researchers wishing to explore challenges in this area, and for developers wishing to evaluate new types of network services. OpenNetVM is an open-source platform that we encourage others to adopt and contribute to.
Our grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) supports our work on “Modeling and Development of Resilient Communication”. I lead a team that includes PIs from University of Central Florida, University of Illinois, Chicago and Rutgers University. This project (see Project Description) seeks to model and develop resilient communication for first responders in disaster management. This work is funded by NIST's Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program. Refer to the project web page for recent progress.
We also have a related NSF grant that addresses the important role of social media and volunteers during and in the aftermath of disasters. This project will enhance communication frameworks with the use of social networks for hyper-local assistance from first responders and volunteers, keeping in mind security and trust.
Another NSF grant provides support for our IoT Nets: Networking for the Internet of Things project. We focus on developing innovative, efficient and scalable solutions to support large-scale IoT communication, including support for large-scale IoT communication over cellular networks, transport protocols, security, and integration of IoT solutions with Machine Learning.
We have received a grant from NSF for Mobile Elastic Edge Clouds for Scalable, Low-Latency Services that will explore the communication and system architectures needed to effectively support edge cloud services. Our project will develop mobile elastic edge cloud platform to help improve the scalability, agility, and efficiency of edge clouds, allowing them to support new types of performance critical applications.
Aditya Dhakal — Ph.D. Student, NFV at the Edge; Machine Learning Applications on Edge Cloud Platforms and NFV; Supporting SmartNICs on OpenNetVM
Mohammad Jahanian — Ph.D. Student, Information Centricity; Supporting Disaster Management with ICN
Elizabeth Liri — Ph. D. Student, Internet of Things; Innovative Transport and Control Protocols for IoT
Sourav Panda — Ph.D. Student, Securing the Network with NFV; Traffic Monitoring, Intrusion Detection and Prevention; Supporting SmartNICs on NFV platforms. (Jointly Advised with Prof. Laxmi Bhuyan)
Ian-Chin Wang — M.S. Student, Serverless Computing
Shixiong Qi — Ph.D. Student, Cloud Computing and Networking
Vincent Tran — Ph.D. Student
Ali Mohammakhan — Graduated with Ph.D. Fall 2019, Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking; Application to Cellular Networks Current: Google Inc.
Sameer Kulkarni — Ph.D. Computer Science (University of Goettingen), Network Function Virtualization; Edge Cloud Platforms; Disaster Management. Current: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India (was a post-doc in our group until Feb. 2020)
Vivek Jain — Ph.D. Student, Networking and Systems
Viyom Mittal — Ph. D. Student, Networking and Systems
Heri Kurniawan — Ph.D. Student, Networking
I teach undergraduate and graduate courses focused on Networking, Virtualization & Cloud Computing.