Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
Email: lenin [at] csail [dot] mit [dot] edu

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Papers

Conference
• Automatic and Scalable Fault Detection for Mobile Applications
  Lenin Ravindranath, Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Hari Balakrishnan
  MobiSys 2014
• Procrastinator: pacing mobile apps’ usage of the network
  Lenin Ravindranath, Sharad Agarwal, Jitu Padhye, Chris Reiderer
  MobiSys 2014
• Timecard: Controlling User-Perceived Delays in Server-Based Mobile Applications
  Lenin Ravindranath, Jitu Padhye, Ratul Mahajan, Hari Balakrishnan
  SOSP 2013
• SmartAds: Bringing Contextual Ads to Mobile Apps
  Suman Nath, Felix Lin, Lenin Ravindranath, Jitu Padhye
  MobiSys 2013
• AppInsight: Mobile App Performance Monitoring in the Wild
  Lenin Ravindranath, Jitu Padhye, Sharad Agarwal, Ratul Mahajan, Ian Obermiller, Shahin Shayandeh
  OSDI 2012
• Improving Wireless Network Performance Using Sensor Hints
  Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  NSDI 2011 (Nominated for Best Paper)
  Figure 7 in the paper has bugs
• Accurate, Low-Energy Trajectory Mapping For Mobile Devices
  Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden and Lewis Girod
  NSDI 2011
• Nectar: Automatic Management of Data and Computation in Data Centers
  Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Lenin Ravindranath*, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Yuan Yu, and Li Zhuang
  Authors in alphabetical order
  OSDI 2010
• VTrack: Accurate, Energy-Aware Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones
  Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Katrina LaCurts, Sivan Toledo, Jakob Eriksson, Sam Madden, Hari Balakrishnan
  SenSys 2009 (Best Paper Award)
• Dircast: A Practical and Efficient Wi-Fi Multicast System
  Ranveer Chandra, Thomas Moscibroda, Vishnu Navda, Jitu Padhye, Ramachandran Ramjee, Lenin Ravindranath*
  Authors in alphabetical order
  ICNP 2009
  
• SixthSense: RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence
  Lenin Ravindranath, Piyush Agrawal, Venkat Padmanabhan
  MobiSys 2008
  
• COMBINE: Leveraging the Power of Wireless Peers through Collaborative Downloading
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Lenin Ravindranath, Chandu Thekkath
  MobiSys 2007
  
• Enhancing Security of Corporate Wi-Fi Networks Using DAIR
  Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, Brian Zill
  Authors in alphabetical order
  MobiSys 2006
Workshop
• Give in to procrastination and stop prefetching
  Lenin Ravindranath, Sharad Agarwal, Jitu Padhye, Chris Reiderer
  Hotnets 2013
• Mobile Applications Need Targeted Micro-Updates
  Alvin Cheung, Lenin Ravindranath*, Eugene Wu, Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan
  Student authors in alphabetical order
  APSys 2013
• Code In The Air: Simplifying Sensing and Coordination Tasks on Smartphones
  Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden
  HotMobile 2012
• "Extra-Sensory Perception" for Wireless Networks
  Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden
  HotNets 2010
• Change is hard: Adapting Dependency Graph Models For Unified Diagnosis in Wired/Wireless Networks
  Lenin Ravindranath, Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, David A. Maltz, Jitu Padhye, Parveen Patel
  WREN 2009
• Wi-Fi Neighborcast: Enabling Communication Among Nearby Clients
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*
  Authors in alphabetical order
  HotMobile 2008
  
• Beacon-Stuffing: Wi-Fi without Associations
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*, Alec Wolman
  Authors in alphabetical order
  HotMobile 2007
  
• Collaborative Downloading for Multi-homed Wireless Devices
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Chandu Thekkath, Lenin Ravindranath
  HotMobile 2007
  
• DAIR: A Framework for Managing Enterprise Wireless Networks Using Desktop Infrastructure
  Paramvir Bahl, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, Brian Zill
  Authors in alphabetical order
  HotNets 2005
Poster/Demos
• Code in the Air: Simplifying Tasking on Smartphones
  Lenin Ravindranath, Tiffany Chen, Anirudh Sivaraman, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  MobiSys 2012
  
• Code in the Air: Simplifying Sensing on Smartphones
  Tim Kaler, John Patrick Lynch, Timothy Peng, Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  SenSys 2010
  
• Improving the Latency of 802.11 Hand-offs using Sentinel based Architecture
  Lenin Ravindranath, Fredrick Prashanth, Leo Prasath, Praveen Durairaj, Arul Siromoney
  HiPC 2005
  
Tech-report
• Nectar: Automatic Management of Data and Computation in Data Centers
  Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Lenin Ravindranath*, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Yuan Yu, and Li Zhuang
  Authors in alphabetical order
  MSR Tech Report no. MSR-TR-2010-55, May 2010
• Towards Unified Management of Networked Services in Wired and Wireless Networks
  Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Dave Maltz, Parveen Patel, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*
  Authors in alphabetical order
  MSR-TR-2008-148, pp. 14, Microsoft Research Tech Report, October 2008