MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The Stata Center, Room 32-G822
32 Vassar St
Cambridge, MA 02139
Office Phone: (617) 253-6002
E-mail: awberger at csail . mit . edu
Professional Affiliations
I am a Senior Research Scientist at
Akamai Technologies.
I am also a Research Affiliate in the
Advanced Network Architecture Group
at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I am also a Staff Consultant System Architecture at
Optodot Corporation
Coordinates
The best way to reach me is to send e-mail to:
awberger at csail . mit . edu
Technical Interests:
At Akamai Technologies
I am working on the mapping of requests from web browsers to appropriate Akamai
servers. The interesting and hard aspect is how to determine the
"appropriate" server. A key criterion
is the latency to download web content, which
in turn depends on geography, Internet topology, and transient traffic conditions.
Key words for topics of interest to me are:
- Measurement of Interent Performance and Topology
- Internet Routing
- Teletraffic Theory
- Performance Analysis
- Optical Transport Networks.
- IP over Optical Transport Networks.
- Quality of Service in Packet Networks
- Traffic Engineering
- Congestion Controls
- Overload Controls
- Connection Admission Controls
- Dimensioning of Network Resources
- Variable Bit Rate Video
- Queueing Theory
- Applied Probability
Selected Papers
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with X. Yang and D. Clark,
"NIRA: a New Inter-Domain Routing Architecture,"
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
Vol.15, No. 4, August 2007, pp. 775 - 788.
[pdf]
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with S. Kandula, D. Katabi, and S. Sinha,
"Dynamic Load Balancing Without Packet Reordering,"
Computer Communication Review,
Vol. 37, No. 2, April 2007, pp. 53-62.
[pdf]
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with R. Beverly and S. Bauer,
"The Internet's Not a Big Truck: Toward Quantifying Network Neutrality,"
Proceedings of the 8th Passive and Active Measurement Conference,
Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, April 5-6, 2007, pp. 135-144.
[pdf]
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with R. Beverly and K. Sollins,
"SVM Learning of IP Address Structure for Latency Prediction,"
SIGCOMM 2006 Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet-06),
Sept. 2006.
[pdf]
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with H. Rahul, M. Kasbekar, and R. Sitaraman,
"Towards Realizing the Performance and Availability Benefits of a Global Overlay Network,"
Passive and Active Measurement Conference,
March, 2006.
[pdf]
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with S. Kandula, D. Katabi, and M. Jacob,
"Botz-4-Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds,"
Second Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI),
May 2005.
[pdf]
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with J. Jung and S. Schechter,
"Fast Detection of Scanning Worm Infections,"
Seventh Inter. Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID),
Sept. 2004,
[pdf].
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with A. Feldmann, O. Maennel, Z. M. Mao, and B. Maggs,
"Locating Internet Routing Instabilities,"
SIGCOMM 2004,
[pdf]
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with J. Jung, V. Paxson, and H. Balakrishnan,
"Fast Portscan Detection Using Sequential Hypothesis Testing,"
Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
May 2004
[pdf].
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with J. Jung and H. Balakrishnan, "Modeling TTL-Based Internet Caches,"
INFOCOM 2003.
[pdf]
- with Y. Kogan, "Dimensioning Bandwidth for Elastic Traffic in
High-Speed Data Networks,"
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking,
Vol. 8, No. 5, October, 2000, pp. 643-654.
[pdf].
- with Y. Kogan, "Multi-Class Elastic Data Traffic: Engineering Bandwidth
Using Asymptotic Approximations," Proc. of 16th Inter. Teletraffic Congress,
June, 1999, pp. 77-86.
[pdf], and
associated viewgraphs
[pdf].
- with Y. Kogan, and L. Bregman,
"Bottleneck Analysis in Multiclass Closed Queueing Networks and its Application,"
Queueing Systems, Vol. 31, 1999, pp. 217-237.
[pdf].
- with W. Whitt, "Effective Bandwidths with Priorities,"
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 6, No. 4, August, 1998, pp. 447-460.
[pdf]
- with W. Whitt, "Extending the Effective Bandwidth
Concept to Networks with Priority Classes,"
IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 8, August, 1998, pp. 78-83.
[pdf]
Curriculum Vitae
If you are interested in more information, see my curriculum vitae
[pdf]