Dr. Arthur W. Berger


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

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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].

  • with A. Feldmann, O. Maennel, Z. M. Mao, and B. Maggs, "Locating Internet Routing Instabilities," SIGCOMM 2004, [pdf]

  • 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].

  • 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]