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Auxo: Efficient Federated Learning via Scalable Client Clustering
Jiachen Liu
University of Michigan
,Fan Lai
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
,Yinwei Dai
Princeton University
,Aditya Akella
University of Texas at Austin
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Southern California
,Mosharaf Chowdhury
University of Michigan
SoCC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing•October 2023, pp 125-141• https://doi.org/10.1145/3620678.3624651Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning (ML) paradigm that enables heterogeneous edge devices to collaboratively train ML models without revealing their raw data to a logically centralized server. However, beyond the heterogeneous device ...
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Reviving Dead Links on the Web with Fable
Jingyuan Zhu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
,Anish Nyayachavadi
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
,Jiangchen Zhu
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
,Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk
Microsoft Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
IMC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference•October 2023, pp 131-144• https://doi.org/10.1145/3618257.3624832The web is littered with millions of links which previously worked but no longer do. When users encounter any such broken link, they resort to looking up an archived copy of the linked page. But, for a sizeable fraction of these broken links, no archived ...
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Making links on your web pages last longer than you
Ayush Goel
University of Michigan
,Jingyuan Zhu
University of Michigan
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
HotNets '22: Proceedings of the 21st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks•November 2022, pp 145-151• https://doi.org/10.1145/3563766.3564103It is common for the authors of a web page to include links to related pages on other sites. However, when users visit a page several years after it was last updated, they often find that some of the external links either do not work or point to ...
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Characterizing "permanently dead" links on Wikipedia
Anish Nyayachavadi
University of Michigan
,Jingyuan Zhu
University of Michigan
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
IMC '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference•October 2022, pp 388-394• https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561451It is common for a web page to include links which help visitors discover related pages on other sites. When a link ceases to work (e.g., because the page that it is pointing to either no longer exists or has been moved), users could rely on an archived ...
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FedScale: Benchmarking Model and System Performance of Federated Learning
Fan Lai
University of Michigan
,Yinwei Dai
University of Michigan
,Xiangfeng Zhu
University of Michigan
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
,Mosharaf Chowdhury
University of Michigan
ResilientFL '21: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Systems Challenges in Reliable and Secure Federated Learning•October 2021, pp 1-3• https://doi.org/10.1145/3477114.3488760- 34Citation
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Marauder: synergized caching and prefetching for low-risk mobile app acceleration
Murali Ramanujam
UCLA
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
,Ravi Netravali
Princeton University
MobiSys '21: Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services•June 2021, pp 350-362• https://doi.org/10.1145/3458864.3466866Low interaction response times are crucial to the experience that mobile apps provide for their users. Unfortunately, existing strategies to alleviate the network latencies that hinder app responsiveness fall short in practice. In particular, caching is ...
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Rethinking Client-Side Caching for the Mobile Web
Ayush Goel
University of Michigan
,Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk
University of Michigan
,Ravi Netravali
UCLA
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
HotMobile '21: Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications•February 2021, pp 112-118• https://doi.org/10.1145/3446382.3448664Mobile web browsing remains slow despite many efforts to accelerate page loads. Like others, we find that client-side computation (in particular, JavaScript execution) is a key culprit. Prior solutions to mitigate computation overheads, however, suffer ...
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Repurposing Existing Measurements to Identify Stale Traceroutes
Vasileios Giotsas
Lancaster University
,Thomas Koch
Columbia University
,Elverton Fazzion
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
,Ítalo Cunha
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
,Matt Calder
Microsoft and Columbia University
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
,Ethan Katz-Bassett
Columbia University
IMC '20: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference•October 2020, pp 247-265• https://doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423654Many systems rely on traceroutes to monitor or characterize the Internet. The quality of the systems' inferences depends on the completeness and freshness of the traceroutes, but the refreshing of traceroutes is constrained by limited resources at ...
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Remotely Controlled Manufacturing: A New Frontier for Systems Research
Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
,Chinedum Okwudire
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
HotMobile '20: Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications•March 2020, pp 62-67• https://doi.org/10.1145/3376897.3377862It has now become commonplace for applications that run on smartphones, IoT devices, and even personal computers to rely on services hosted either in the cloud or on edge servers. Some of the motivations for this trend-augmenting thin clients and ...
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Network error logging: client-side measurement of end-to-end web service reliability
Sam Burnett
Google
,Lily Chen
Google
,Douglas A. Creager
GitHub
,Misha Efimov
Google
,Ilya Grigorik
Google
,Ben Jones
Google
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
Google and University of Michigan
,Pavlos Papageorge
Google
,Brian Rogan
Google
,Charles Stahl
Google
,Julia Tuttle
Google
NSDI'20: Proceedings of the 17th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation•February 2020, pp 985-998We present NEL (Network Error Logging), a planet-scale, client-side, network reliability measurement system. NEL is implemented in Google Chrome and has been proposed as a new W3C standard, letting any web site operator collect reports of clients' ...
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Fine-grained replicated state machines for a cluster storage system
Ming Liu
University of Washington
,Arvind Krishnamurthy
University of Washington
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
,Rishi Bhardwaj
Nutanix
,Karan Gupta
Nutanix
,Chinmay Kamat
Nutanix
,Huapeng Yuan
Nutanix
,Aditya Jaltade
Nutanix
,Roger Liao
Nutanix
,Pavan Konka
Nutanix
,Anoop Jawahar
Nutanix
NSDI'20: Proceedings of the 17th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation•February 2020, pp 305-324We describe the design and implementation of a consistent and fault-tolerant metadata index for a scalable block storage system. The block storage system supports the virtualized execution of legacy applications inside enterprise clusters by ...
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Sol: fast distributed computation over slow networks
Fan Lai
University of Michigan
,Jie You
University of Michigan
,Xiangfeng Zhu
University of Michigan
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
,Mosharaf Chowdhury
University of Michigan
NSDI'20: Proceedings of the 17th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation•February 2020, pp 273-288The popularity of big data and AI has led to many optimizations at different layers of distributed computation stacks. Despite - or perhaps, because of - its role as the narrow waist of such software stacks, the design of the execution engine, which is ...
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Near-optimal latency versus cost tradeoffs in geo-distributed storage
Muhammed Uluyol
University of Michigan
,Anthony Huang
University of Michigan
,Ayush Goel
University of Michigan
,Mosharaf Chowdhury
University of Michigan
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
NSDI'20: Proceedings of the 17th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation•February 2020, pp 157-180By replicating data across sites in multiple geographic regions, web services can maximize availability and minimize latency for their users. However, when sacrificing data consistency is not an option, we show that service providers have to today incur ...
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Beating BGP is Harder than we Thought
Todd Arnold
Columbia University
,Matt Calder
Microsoft
,Italo Cunha
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Columbia University
,Arpit Gupta
UC Santa Barbara and Columbia University
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
,Michael Schapira
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
,Ethan Katz-Bassett
Columbia University
HotNets '19: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks•November 2019, pp 9-16• https://doi.org/10.1145/3365609.3365865Online services all seek to provide their customers with the best Quality of Experience (QoE) possible. Milliseconds of delay can cause users to abandon a cat video or move onto a different shopping site, which translates into lost revenue. Thus, ...
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Bolt-On Global Consistency for the Cloud
Zhe Wu
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA
,Edward Wijaya
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
,Muhammed Uluyol
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
SoCC '18: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing•October 2018, pp 55-67• https://doi.org/10.1145/3267809.3267835Web services that enable users in multiple regions to collaborate can increase availability and decrease latency by replicating data across data centers. If such a service spreads its data across multiple cloud providers---for the associated performance,...
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To relay or not to relay for inter-cloud transfers?
Fan Lai
University of Michigan
,Mosharaf Chowdhury
University of Michigan
,Harsha Madhyastha
University of Michigan
HotCloud'18: Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Conference on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing•July 2018, pp 7-7Efficient big data analytics over the wide-area network (WAN) is becoming increasingly more popular. Current geo-distributed analytics (GDA) systems employ WAN-aware optimizations to tackle WAN heterogeneities. Although extensive measurements on public ...
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Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric: Steering Oceans of Content to the World
Brandon Schlinker
Facebook and University of Southern California
,Hyojeong Kim
Facebook
,Timothy Cui
Facebook
,Ethan Katz-Bassett
University of Southern California abd Columbia University
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
,Italo Cunha
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
,James Quinn
Facebook
,Saif Hasan
Facebook
,Petr Lapukhov
Facebook
,Hongyi Zeng
Facebook
SIGCOMM '17: Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication•August 2017, pp 418-431• https://doi.org/10.1145/3098822.3098853Large content providers build points of presence around the world, each connected to tens or hundreds of networks. Ideally, this connectivity lets providers better serve users, but providers cannot obtain enough capacity on some preferred peering paths ...
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Vroom: Accelerating the Mobile Web with Server-Aided Dependency Resolution
Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk
University of Michigan
,Ravi Netravali
MIT
,Muhammed Uluyol
University of Michigan
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan
SIGCOMM '17: Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication•August 2017, pp 390-403• https://doi.org/10.1145/3098822.3098851The existing slowness of the web on mobile devices frustrates users and hurts the revenue of website providers. Prior studies have attributed high page load times to dependencies within the page load process: network latency in fetching a resource ...
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TIDE: A User-Centric Tool for Identifying Energy Hungry Applications on Smartphones
Tuan A. Dao
University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
,Indrajeet Singh
University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
,Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy
University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
,Guohong Cao
The Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
,Prasant Mohapatra
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 25, Issue 3•June 2017, pp 1459-1474 • https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2016.2639061Today, many smartphone users are unaware of what applications apps they should stop using to prevent their battery from running out quickly. The problem is identifying such apps is hard due to the fact that there exist hundreds of thousands of apps and ...
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ZapDroid: Managing Infrequently Used Applications on Smartphones
Indrajeet Singh
University of California, Riverside, CA
,Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy
University of California, Riverside, CA
,Harsha V. Madhyastha
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
,Iulian Neamtiu
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 16, Issue 5•May 2017, pp 1475-1489 • https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2016.2591546User surveys have shown that a typical user has over a 100 apps on his/her smartphone [1] , but stops using many of them. We conduct a user study to identify such unused apps, which we call zombies, and show via experiments that zombie apps consume ...
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- A. To access ACM Author-Izer, authors need to have a free ACM web account, must have an ACM Author Profile page in the Digital Library, and must take ownership of their Author Profile page.
- Q. What is an ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. The Author Profile Page initially collects all the professional information known about authors from the publications record as known by the ACM Digital Library. The Author Profile Page supplies a quick snapshot of an author's contribution to the field and some rudimentary measures of influence upon it. Over time, the contents of the Author Profile page may expand at the direction of the community. Please visit the ACM Author Profile documentation page for more background information on these pages.
- Q. How do I find my Author Profile page and take ownership?
- A. You will need to take the following steps:
- Create a free ACM Web Account
- Sign-In to the ACM Digital Library
- Find your Author Profile Page by searching the ACM Digital Library for your name
- Find the result you authored (where your author name is a clickable link)
- Click on your name to go to the Author Profile Page
- Click the "Add Personal Information" link on the Author Profile Page
- Wait for ACM review and approval; generally less than 24 hours
- Q. Why does my photo not appear?
- A. Make sure that the image you submit is in .jpg or .gif format and that the file name does not contain special characters
- Q. What if I cannot find the Add Personal Information function on my author page?
- A. The ACM account linked to your profile page is different than the one you are logged into. Please logout and login to the account associated with your Author Profile Page.
- Q. What happens if an author changes the location of his bibliography or moves to a new institution?
- A. Should authors change institutions or sites, they can utilize ACM Author-Izer to disable old links and re-authorize new links for free downloads from a new location.
- Q. What happens if an author provides a URL that redirects to the author’s personal bibliography page?
- A. The service will not provide a free download from the ACM Digital Library. Instead the person who uses that link will simply go to the Citation Page for that article in the ACM Digital Library where the article may be accessed under the usual subscription rules.
However, if the author provides the target page URL, any link that redirects to that target page will enable a free download from the Service.
- Q. What happens if the author’s bibliography lives on a page with several aliases?
- A. Only one alias will work, whichever one is registered as the page containing the author’s bibliography. ACM has no technical solution to this problem at this time.
- Q. Why should authors use ACM Author-Izer?
- A. ACM Author-Izer lets visitors to authors’ personal home pages download articles for no charge from the ACM Digital Library. It allows authors to dynamically display real-time download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal site.
- Q. Does ACM Author-Izer provide benefits for authors?
- A. Downloads of definitive articles via Author-Izer links on the authors’ personal web page are captured in official ACM statistics to more accurately reflect usage and impact measurements.
Authors who do not use ACM Author-Izer links will not have downloads from their local, personal bibliographies counted. They do, however, retain the existing right to post author-prepared preprint versions on their home pages or institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer benefit the computing community?
- A. ACM Author-Izer expands the visibility and dissemination of the definitive version of ACM articles. It is based on ACM’s strong belief that the computing community should have the widest possible access to the definitive versions of scholarly literature. By linking authors’ personal bibliography with the ACM Digital Library, user confusion over article versioning should be reduced over time.
In making ACM Author-Izer a free service to both authors and visitors to their websites, ACM is emphasizing its continuing commitment to the interests of its authors and to the computing community in ways that are consistent with its existing subscription-based access model.
- Q. Why can’t I find my most recent publication in my ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. There is a time delay between publication and the process which associates that publication with an Author Profile Page. Right now, that process usually takes 4-8 weeks.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer expand ACM’s “Green Path” Access Policies?
- A. ACM Author-Izer extends the rights and permissions that authors retain even after copyright transfer to ACM, which has been among the “greenest” publishers. ACM enables its author community to retain a wide range of rights related to copyright and reuse of materials. They include:
- Posting rights that ensure free access to their work outside the ACM Digital Library and print publications
- Rights to reuse any portion of their work in new works that they may create
- Copyright to artistic images in ACM’s graphics-oriented publications that authors may want to exploit in commercial contexts
- All patent rights, which remain with the original owner