Hariharan Rahul

I graduated in September 2012 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, working in the NetMIT group with Prof. Dina Katabi. I am also a member of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing.

I was previously at Akamai Technologies, where I played a key role in the design and implementation of their global traffic management solution, among other things.

Papers

Conferences

• Extracting Multi-Person Respiration from Entangled RF Signals
  Shichao Yue, Hao He, Hao Wang, Hariharan Rahul, and Dina Katabi
  UBICOMP 2018, Singapore, October 2018.   (To appear)
• Eliminating Channel Feedback in Next-Generation Cellular Networks
  Deepak Vasisht, Swarun Kumar, Hariharan Rahul, and Dina Katabi
  ACM SIGCOMM 2016, Florianópolis, Brazil, August 2016.   [pdf]
  Selected as a SIGCOMM 2016 Best Paper.
• Real-time Distributed MIMO Systems
  Ezzeldin Hamed, Hariharan Rahul, Mohammed A. Abdelghany, and Dina Katabi
  ACM SIGCOMM 2016, Florianópolis, Brazil, August 2016.   [pdf]
• AirShare: Distributed Coherent Transmission Made Seamless
  Omid Abari, Hariharan Rahul, and Dina Katabi
  IEEE INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, China, April 2015.   [pdf]
• MegaMIMO: Scaling Wireless Capacity with User Demands
  Hariharan Rahul, Swarun Kumar, and Dina Katabi
  ACM SIGCOMM 2012, Helsinki, Finland, August 2012.   [pdf]
  Selected as a 2014 CACM Research Highlight.
• SourceSync: A Distributed Wireless Architecture for Exploiting Sender Diversity
  Hariharan Rahul, Haitham Hassanieh, and Dina Katabi
  ACM SIGCOMM 2010, New Delhi, India, August 2010.   [pdf]
• Frequency-Aware Rate Adaptation and MAC Protocols
  Hariharan Rahul, Farinaz Edalat, Dina Katabi, and Charles Sodini
  ACM MOBICOM 2009, Beijing, China, September 2009.   [pdf]
• Learning to Share: Narrowband-Friendly Wideband Networks
  Hariharan Rahul, Nate Kushman, Dina Katabi, Charles Sodini, and Farinaz Edalat
  ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008.   [pdf]
• Wireless Network Coding: Opportunities & Challenges
  Christina Fragouli, Dina Katabi, Athina Markopoulou, Muriel Médard, and Hariharan Rahul
  2007 Military Communications Conference
  MILCOM 2007, Orlando, FL, October 2007.   [pdf]
• XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding
  Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Médard, and Jon Crowcroft
  ACM SIGCOMM 2006, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.   [pdf]
• Towards Realizing the Performance and Availability Benefits of a Global Overlay Network
  Hariharan Rahul, Mangesh Kasbekar, Ramesh Sitaraman, and Arthur Berger
  Seventh Passive and Active Measurement Conference
  PAM 2006, Adelaide, Australia, March 2006.   [pdf]
  Supplement to the conference paper: MIT CSAIL Tech Report 2005-070
• Practical Network Coding for Wireless Environments
  Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi, Wenjun Hu, Hariharan Rahul, and Muriel Médard
  Forty-Third Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
  Allerton 2005, Allerton, IL, September 2005.   [pdf]
• An Experimental Study of Poly-Logarithmic Fully-Dynamic Connectivity Algorithms
  Raj Iyer, David Karger, Hariharan Rahul, and Mikkel Thorup
  Second Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments
  ALENEX 2000, San Francisco, CA, January 2000.
  This paper was selected for a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. Please cite the journal version.
• An Integrated Congestion Management Architecture for Internet Hosts
  Hari Balakrishnan, Hariharan Rahul, and Srinivasan Seshan
  ACM SIGCOMM 1999, Cambridge, MA, August 1999.   [ps, ps.gz]

Journals

• XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding
  Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Médard, and Jon Crowcroft
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 16(3), Pages 497-510, June 2008.   [pdf]
  Winner of the 2009 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize.
• An Experimental Study of Poly-Logarithmic Fully-Dynamic Connectivity Algorithms
  Raj Iyer, David Karger, Hariharan Rahul, and Mikkel Thorup
  ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, 6, 2001.   [pdf, ps, ps.gz]
  Supplement to the paper: Source code and test files (tar.gz)
• A new distributed route selection approach for channel establishment in real-time networks
  G. Manimaran, Hariharan Rahul, and C. Siva Ram Murthy
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 7(5), Pages 698-709, October 1999.   [pdf]

Workshops and Posters

• Poster: Clock Synchronization for Distributed Wireless Protocols at the Physical Layer
  Omid Abari, Hariharan Rahul, and Dina Katabi
  ACM MobiCom 2014, Maui, HI, September 2014.   [pdf]
  Winner of the 2014 ACM SRC.
• One-Size-Fits-All Wireless Video
  Szymon Jakubczak, Hariharan Rahul, and Dina Katabi
  ACM HotNets 2009, New York City, NY, October 2009.   [pdf]
• An End-System Architecture for Unified Congestion Management
  Hariharan Rahul, Hari Balakrishnan, and Srinivasan Seshan
  HotOS 1999, Rio Rico, AZ, March 1999.  

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