Biography
I am a Computer Engineering PhD student in USC under supervision of Ramesh Govindan and Minlan Yu in NSL. I have B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Information Technology Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran).
This is my new website and is still under construction. If you want something from my old website check this link.
Recent projects
Datacenter measurement
The high level goal of the project is to develop a monitoring module in the network hypervisor based on software defined networking paradigm that help the cloud datacenter operators monitor the network just as a single switch. One important usecase for this module is detecting the iceburgs, heavy hitters and bursts characteristics. This is a new project and I'm still working to shape the project.
vCRIB: A virtualized Rule Information Base
Cloud operators increasingly need more and more fine-grained rules to better control individual network flows for various traffic management policies. In this paper, we explore automated rule management in the context of a system called vCRIB (a virtual Cloud Rule Information Base), which provides the abstraction of a centralized rule repository. The challenge in our approach is the design of algorithms that automatically off-load rule processing to overcome resource constraints on hypervisors and/or switches, while minimizing redirection traffic overhead and responding to system dynamics. vCRIB contains novel algorithms for finding feasible rule placements and adapting traffic overhead induced by rule placement in the face of traffic changes and VM migration. We demonstrate that vCRIB can find feasible rule placements with less than 10% traffic overhead even in cases where the traffic-optimal rule placement may be infeasible with respect to hypervisor CPU or memory constraints.
MRM: A service market for Map-Reduce
Data centers are a bunch of computers which are connected through an interconnection network usually offering computing, storage, and … services. On the other hand, the cloud computing model defines a novel role for mobile, social, and health related computing using the reliability and efficiency of these data centers. As a result of vast application of cloud computing, jobs on these datacenters can have various types with different desired requirements. For example some jobs are deadline driven while others just only need some computation resources. Duration and the amount of computation needed for each job is not available before running the job while they are important factors in defining the service model to guarantee the quality of service. In this project, first we propose a way to predict job duration in map-reduce framework and then use that to define a deadline-driven service market.
News
4/27/2013 SDM paper got into HotSDN
My Software Defined Measurement paper got in HotSDN'13. I cannot participate but hope everyone like it.
3/1/2013 See my data center measurement poster in NSDI
In NSDI'13 poster session, I will present the preliminary work for the data center measurement system. I hope the short paper get into HotSDN'13, too.
12/4/2012 vCRIB got into NSDI
Yay! vCRIB paper got into NSDI. It seems that our lab did a great job this year in NSDI, we have 3 papers.
11/17/2012 Creating the new website
Finally, I got a free time to create the new website.