Portrait of Venkat Padmanabhan

Venkat Padmanabhan

Managing Director, Microsoft Research India

Talks

Venkata N. Padmanabhan’s talks

Keynote Talks

Mobile + Cloud: It Rains Opportunity
11th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Bangalore
December 2010

Mobile + Cloud: It Rains Opportunity
4th IEEE International Conference on Internet Multimedia Systems Architecture and Applications (IMSAA), Bangalore
December 2010

Invited Talks

The Quest for Zero-Effort Indoor Localization
Carnegie Mellon University, University of California at Berkeley, IEEE ANTS 2012, Cambridge University, University College London, NIIT University, IIT Hyderabad, and University of Washington
April 2012-March 2013

Greening Desktop Computing
Bell Labs/IISc Green Telecom & IT Workshop, Bangalore
April 2012

Cloud-Supported Mobile Systems
2010 Networking Summit @ Telefonica Research, Qualcomm R&D, Hyderabad, Singapore Management University
June 2010-December 2011

WebProfiler: Cooperative Diagnosis of Web Failures
COMSNETS, Bangalore
January 2010

NetPrints: Diagnosing Home Network Misconfigurations Using Shared Knowledge
IIT Bombay, Stanford University, and HP Labs, Palo Alto
January-March 2009

Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones
IIT Delhi, Motorola Labs, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Northwestern University
September-October 2008

TrafficSense: Rich Road and Traffic Monitoring Using Mobile Smartphones
Princeton University, University of Washington, and University of California at Berkeley
March 2008

Improving the Network Experience of Users through Cooperation
IIT Madras, Bell Labs India, and IISc, Bangalore
May-June 2006

NetProfiler: Profiling Wide-Area Networks Using Peer Cooperation
Georgia Tech and Stanford University
February-March 2005

Bandwidth Estimation in Broadband Access Networks
University of Washington
December 2004

Impact of Interference on Multi-hop Wireless Network Performance
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
February 2004

Resilient Peer-to-Peer Streaming
Invited talks at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California at Berkeley
March 2003

CoopNet: Cooperative Networking
Invited talk at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
September 2002

Server-based Characterization and Inference of Internet Performance
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
March 2002

Locating Internet Hosts
Computer Science Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
June 2001

Locating Internet Hosts
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
November 2000

Optimizing Internet Data Transport
Guest Lecture, Graduate Networking Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
October 1999

Optimizing Internet Data Transport
BU/NSF Workshop on Internet Measurement, Instrumentation, and Characterization, Boston, MA, USA
August 1999

Addressing the Challenges of Web Data Transport
University of Washington Retreat, Whistler Resort, Canada
December 1998
(I gave a similar talk at several research labs and universities during the spring of 1998.)

Conference, Workshop, and IETF Talks

PRISM: Platform for Remote Sensing using Mobile Smartphones
ACM MobiSys, San Francisco, CA, USA
June 2010

SureMail: Notification Overlay for Email Reliability
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), College Park, MD, USA
November 2005

NetProfiler: Profiling Wide-Area Networks Using Peer Cooperation
IPTPS, Ithaca, NY, USA
February 2005

Supporting Spectators in Online Multiplayer Games
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), San Diego, CA, USA
November 2004

Bandwidth Estimation in Broadband Access Networks
ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Taormina, Italy
October 2004

Supporting Heterogeneity and Congestion Control in Peer-to-Peer Multicast Streaming
IPTPS, San Diego, CA, USA
February 2004

Server-based Inference of Internet Link Lossiness
IEEE Infocom, San Francisco, CA, USA
April 2003

Secure Traceroute to Detect Faulty or Malicious Routing
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-I), Princeton, NJ, USA
October 2002

Distributing Streaming Media Content Using Cooperative Networking
ACM NOSSDAV, Miami Beach, FL, USA
May 2002

RADAR: An In-Building RF-Based User Location and Tracking System
IEEE Infocom 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel
March 2000

TCP Performance Implications of Network Asymmetry
PILC Working Group, 46th IETF, Washington, DC, USA
November 1999

Coordinating Congestion Management and Bandwidth Sharing for Heterogeneous Data Streams
NOSSDAV ’99, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA
June 1999

Using Differentiated Services Mechanisms to Improve Network Protocol and Application Performance
IEEE RTAS Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time Internet Applications, Vancouver, Canada
June 1999

A Proposal for SLUMS
SLUMS BOF, 44th IETF, Minneapolis, MN, USA
March 1999

TCP Fast Start: A Technique for Speeding Up Web Transfers
IEEE Globecom Internet Mini-Conference, Sydney, Australia
November 1998

Fast and Scalable Handoffs in Wireless Internetworks
ACM/IEEE Mobicom Conference, Rye, NY, USA
November 1996

A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links
ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Stanford, CA, USA
August 1996

Improving HTTP Latency
Second International World Wide Web Conference, Chicago, IL, USA
October 1994

Miscellaneous Talks

The Content and Access Dynamics of a Busy Web Server
MSR Networking Workshop, Cambridge, UK
January 2000

RADAR: An In-Building RF-Based User Location and Tracking System
MSR Networking Workshop, Cambridge, UK
January 2000

The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance
Berkeley BARWAN Project Retreat, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
June 1997

Direct Broadcast Satellite: Architecture and Evaluation
Berkeley BARWAN Project Retreat, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
June 1996

Using DNS to Support Host Mobility
Industrial Liason Program (ILP), Berkeley, CA, USA
March 1996

Scalable Mobility Support for Overlay Networks
Berkeley BARWAN Project Retreat, Monterey, CA, USA
January 1996

An Architecture to Support Fast Handoffs in Wireless Networks
End of internship talk @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA
August 1995

Reducing World Wide Web Latency
End of internship talk @ Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, USA
August 1994