Research interests
I am mostly interested in the area of networked systems and its following aspects: behavior of distributed entities, utilization of shared network resources, and alignment of network services with application needs. In particular, I am interested in transmission control, access control, link scheduling, buffer management and other means of effective network and system support for media streaming, bulk data transfer, and interactive delay-sensitive applications. Transgressing the traditional paradigm of networking protocol design, I investigate systems where numerous independent stakeholders are capable of behaving differently than specified by protocols. My objective is to design new network architectures and protocols that exhibit both high performance and robustness when exposed to realistic mixes of compliant behaviors, incidental failures, selfish manipulations, and malicious attacks by networked parties. Hence, my research interests span such diverse domains as network security, fault tolerance, multimedia, real-time systems, and performance evaluation. In choosing specific problems to work on, I favor those of fundamental nature so that my solutions will remain relevant over long time and for various future applications... (see my Professional Statement for more)
Short biography
I received the Engineer degree from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Zelenograd, Russia in 1994 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, USA in 1999 and 2003 respectively. From 2003 to 2009, I served on the tenure-track faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. I currently work as a Senior Researcher at Institute IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain. The areas of my primary research interests are computer networking and distributed systems. My research contributions include multicast congestion control resilient to receiver misbehavior, analysis of binary adjustment algorithms, efficient fair transfer of bulk data, and network service differentiation based on performance incentives. My work appeared at top conferences and journals such as ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. I served on the TPCs of INFOCOM (2006-2011), ICNP (2008, 2010), and other networking conferences. I co-chaired the TPCs of HSN 2008 (High-Speed Networks 2008, an INFOCOM 2008 workshop) and FIAP 2008 (Future Internet Architectures and Protocols 2008, an ICCCN 2008 symposium) and served as a TPC Vice-Chair of ICCCN 2009. I am serving as a Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN).
