About
I am currently working as a Postdoctoral fellow in Chair of Connected Mobility, Technical University of Munich, Germany with Prof. Dr. Jörg Ott.
I finished my Ph.D. in Collaborative Networking (CoNe) research group at Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland in 2019. My Ph.D. was supervised by Prof. Dr. Jussi Kangasharju and focused on providing enabling protocols for edge computing.
I thoroughly enjoyed my Ph.D. experience! My journey can be summarized with this CoNe group photograph taken in the first year of my Ph.D. (dated Nov, 2016) and this photograph of my after-defense Karonkka with my opponent Prof. Dr. Abhishek Chandra (dated 8th Nov, 2019).
Interested in knowing what I love working on? Check out Research section below ↡
Recent News
| August, 2020 | Our paper Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears is accepted in ACM Workshop in Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets), 2020 to be held in Chicago, Illinois. |
| July, 2020 | I will be taking the Hot Topics for Edge Computing seminar course in the coming winter semester at TUM. |
| June, 2020 | I am serving as a TPC member for Cloud & Fog/Edge Computing, Networking and Storage track of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2020 |
| May, 2020 | I am giving an invited talk of our work "Reality Check for Edge Computing" in EdgeAI webinar organized by 6G Flagship and Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). |
| February, 2020 | I will be taking the Internet for All seminar course with my colleague Dr. Ljubica Kärkkäinen in the coming summer semester at TUM. |
| January, 2020 | I have changed my banners and have moved countries! From University of Helsinki, Finland ➵ Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
| January, 2020 | Our paper Bricklayer: Resource Composition on the Spot Market is accepted in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2020 to be held in Dublin, Ireland |
| January, 2020 | I am reviewing for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) 2020 |
| January, 2020 | I am serving as a PC member for Edge Computing track of 40th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2020 |
| January, 2020 | I am reviewing for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) 2020 |
| November, 2019 | Successflly defended my Ph.D.! My opponent was Prof. Dr. Abhishek Chandra and my advisor Prof. Dr. Jussi Kangasharju played the role of Custos. You can check out a photo from the defense and the video of my introductory lecture. |
| November, 2019 | I will be defending my Ph.D. soon! Read the University of Helsinki announcement here. |
| October, 2019 | Working as a Teaching Assistant for Distributed Data Infrastructures course. The course details can be found here. |
| August, 2019 | Thank you ACM SIGCOMM for a generous $1100 travel grant to attend ACM Internet and Measurmements Conference (IMC) 2019 to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
| August, 2019 | I am now reviewing for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (JIOT) and Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC) |
| July, 2019 | Thank you ACM SIGCOMM for a generous travel grant to attend the physical meeting of Shadow Technical Program Committee (TPC) for ACM Internet and Measurmements Conference (IMC) 2019 to be held in London, UK. |
| May, 2019 | I am serving as a member of Shadow Technical Program Committee (TPC) for ACM Internet and Measurmements Conference (IMC) 2019. |
| April, 2019 | Our paper Open Infrastructure for Edge: A Distributed Ledger Outlook is accepted in 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge) 2019 co-located with USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) to be held in Renton, Washington, USA. |
| March, 2019 | Our paper DeCloud: Truthful Decentralization Double Auction for Edge Clouds is accepted in 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2019 to be held in Texas, USA. |
| February, 2019 | Our paper ExEC:Elastic Extensible Edge Cloud is accepted in Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys), 2019 co-located with ACM EuroSys to be held in Dresden, Germany. |
| October, 2018 | Working as a Teaching Assistant for Distributed Data Infrastructures course. The course details can be found here. |
| October, 2018 | Our paper ICON: Intelligent Container Overlays is accepted in 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2018 to be held in Washington, USA. |
| September, 2018 | Thank you Microsoft Research for providing a partial travel grant to attend ACM MobiCom 2018 hosted by SIGMOBILE to be held in New Delhi, India. |
| August, 2018 | Our poster Redesigning MPTCP for Edge Clouds is accepted in main proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2018 hosted by SIGMOBILE to be held in New Delhi, India. |
| June, 2018 | Our paper Anveshak: Placing Edge Servers In The Wild is accepted in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM), 2018 to be co-located with SIGCOMM'2018 to be held in Budapest, Hungary. |
| May, 2018 | Our paper Placing it right!: optimizing energy, processing, and transport in Edge-Fog clouds is accepted in Springer Annals of Telecommunication. |
| March, 2018 | Our paper QAware: A Cross-Layer Approach to MPTCP Scheduling is accepted in IFIP Networking, 2018 to be held in Zurich, Switzerland. |
| March, 2018 | Our paper MUTE: MUlti-Tier Edge networks is accepted in 5th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms to be co-located with EuroSys 2018 to be held in Porto, Portugal. |
| January, 2018 | I am currently working as Visiting Researcher with Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu at Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen in Germany. |
| November, 2017 | I will be part of the jury for Edge Hackathon being organized. If you are in Helsinki and want to win €2000 while learn more about edge clouds and its applications, feel free to participate! |
| August, 2017 | Working as a Teaching Assistant for Distributed Data Infrastructures course. The course details can be found here. |
| September, 2017 | Attending 3rd CleanSky Summer School being held in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. |
| May, 2017 | Our paper Managing Data in Computational Edge Clouds is accepted in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM), 2017 to be co-located with SIGCOMM'2017 to be held in Los Angeles, USA. |
| April, 2017 | Our paper on Caching in Edge-Fog clouds is accepted in CrossCloud workshop to be co-located with EuroSys'17 to be held in Belgrade, Serbia. Please see the publication section for details. |
| March, 2017 | I am currently attending NetSys-2017 conference and 3rd CleanSky ITN conference at Göttingen, Germany. A photo from the event here. |
| November, 2016 | I am currently working as Visiting Researcher with Dr. Fabian Schneider at NEC Labs Europe (NLE) in Germany. |
| October, 2016 | Our Edge-Fog cloud paper has been accepted as full-paper at IEEE CIoT-2016 to be held at Paris. Please see the publication section for details. |
| September, 2016 | Working as a Teaching Assistant for Distributed Systems course. The course details can be found here. |
| September, 2016 | Participated in Aware Machine-to-Machine Communication seminar held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. A photo from the event here. |
| August, 2016 | I am attending ACM SIGCOMM 2016 in Florianopolis, Brazil. I had the opportunity to meet ACM Distinguished Prof. Jim Kurose. Our photograph together here. |
| July, 2016 | Participated in 3rd Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua workshop on Mobile services and Edge computing. A photo from the event here. |
| June, 2016 | The 2nd CleanSky summer school was a huge success! The pictures of the summer school are available on Flickr. A photo of participants at Suomenlinna here. |
| April, 2016 | Working as a Web-Chair for 2nd CleanSky summer school. |
| February, 2016 | Presented "Edge-Fog Cloud model" at 1st CleanSky workshop held at NEC Labs, Heidelberg, Germany. A photo of me presenting here. |
Research
I consider myself as a "distributed systems" guy as I have always been involved in various domains (read "avatars") of this field. "Divided we stand, united we fall" is my motto in the context of computer networking research.
Edge Computing
A broad theme of my research explores the physical deployment, specifications and effective utilization of compute resources at the network "edge".
The problem is complex primarily due to different requirements imposed by emerging applications. For example,
Internet-of-Things need data aggregation, autonomous vehicles require graphical processing,
automated industry necessitates task interoperability and AR/VR demands ultra-low network latency.
Incorporating such varying application demands to model an always available, semi-managed network of edge servers
is something I quite enjoy.
| Selected Publications | HotNets '20 EdgeSys '19 MECOMM '18 AoT '17 |
Next Generation Network Protocols
Emerging applications have significantly changed the way we interact with the underlying network.
Our old-yet-faithful protocol, TCP has started to show cracks in performance, especially in cellular and wireless environments.
I enjoy exploring and designing next-generation internet protocols which can plug-in several existing performance holes.
For this measure, I am interested in working on protocols such as Multipath TCP (MPTCP), 5G and Information Centric Network (ICN).
| Selected Publications | IFIP Networking '18 Mobicom '18 |
Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers
While edge computing has gathered quite a traction in research community, the management and operation of such large
semi to fully decentralized compute facilities in real world remains an open question. Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers
emerge as a probable technology which can allow edge providers to gain revenue, auction resources and sign service level agreements
with application providers. I am currently exploring how this technology can alleviate other open operability issues plaguing real-world
deployment of edge clouds.
| Selected Publications | ICDCS '19 HotEdge '19 |
Application & Service Deployment
There is a rapid shift in the make-up of cloud computing as cloud providers try to incorporate edge resources and edge accelerators
widely distributed in the region. The brunt of the complexity will be borne by existing cloud-based application as they need to depart
from traditional monolithic client-server model. Another aim of my research is to devise intelligent softwarized applications and services
which can adapt, adjust and adopt to changes in underlying compute infrastructure without sacrificing performance or quality-of-service.
| Selected Publications | ICC '20 HotNets '18 |
Publications
2020
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Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears
Nitinder Mohan, Lorenzo Corneo, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), June 2019
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Bricklayer: Resource Composition on the Spot Market
Walter Wong, Lorenzo Corneo, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Pengyuan Zhou, Nitinder Mohan, Jussi Kangasharju 54th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2019 |
2019
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Open Infrastructure for Edge: A Distributed Ledger Outlook
Aleksandr Zavodovski, Nitinder Mohan, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge), July 2019 |
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DeCloud: Truthful Decentralized Double Auction for Edge Clouds
Aleksandr Zavodovski, Suzan Bayhan, Nitinder Mohan, Pengyuan Zhou, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) |
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ExEC: Elastic Extensible Edge Cloud
Aleksandr Zavodovski, Nitinder Mohan, Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju ACM Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys) |
2018
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ICON: Intelligent Container Overlays
Aleksandr Zavodovski, Nitinder Mohan, Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) |
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Redesigning MPTCP for Edge Clouds
Nitinder Mohan, Tanya Shreedhar, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Otto Waltari, Jussi Kangasharju, Sanjit K. Kaul 24th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) |
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Anveshak: Placing Edge Servers In The Wild
Nitinder Mohan, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Pengyuan Zhou, Jussi Kangasharju ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM), SIGCOMM |
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Placing it right!: Optimizing energy, processing, and transport in Edge-Fog clouds
Nitinder Mohan, Jussi Kangasharju Annals of Telecommunication, Springer |
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QAware: A Cross-Layer Approach to MPTCP Scheduling
Tanya Shreedhar, Nitinder Mohan, Sanjit K. Kaul, Jussi Kangasharju 17th IFIP Networking Conference (Networking) |
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MUTE: Multi-Tier Edge Networks
Alessio Silvestro*, Nitinder Mohan*, Jussi Kangasharju, Fabian Schneider, Xiaoming Fu [ *joint first authors] 5th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud), EuroSys |
2017
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Managing Data in Computational Edge Clouds
Nitinder Mohan, Pengyuan Zhou, Keerthana Govindaraj, Jussi Kangasharju ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM), SIGCOMM |
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Grouping Computational Data in Resource Caches of Edge-Fog Cloud
Nitinder Mohan, Pengyuan Zhou, Keerthana Govindaraj, Jussi Kangasharju 4th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud), EuroSys Conference |
2016
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Edge-Fog Cloud: A Distributed Cloud for Internet of Things Computations
Nitinder Mohan, Jussi Kangasharju IEEE International Conference on Cloudification of the Internet of Things (CIoT) |
2015
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CCNCheck: Enabling Checkpointed Distributed Applications in Content Centric Networks
Nitinder Mohan, Pushpendra Singh 4th CCNx Community Meeting and Conference (CCNxCon), 2015 held at PARC, California, USA |
Theses
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Enabling Sender-initiated Distributed Applications and Checkpointing in Content Centric Networks
Nitinder Mohan M.Tech. (CS) with specialization in Mobile Computing (Best Thesis Nominee) Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, India |
Mentoring
I am actively looking for MSc, BSc and Guided Research students enrolled at TUM. I post currently available research topics at the Chair of Connected Mobility webpage. I am also open to explore other interesting topics aligning with my research interests.
Master Students
| 2020 | Mehdi Yosofi. Flexible multi-cluster edge orchestration and task scheduling platform. |
Bachelor Students
| 2020 | Florian Aschenbrenner. Measuring and Analysing MPTCP Support on the Internet. |
| 2020 | Maximilian Eder. Analysing Impact of ISP Peering on Cloud Traffic Steering. |
Guided Research
| 2020 | Hendrik Cech. Analysing and Comparing MPTCP Schedulers Performance. |
Service
Program Committee (PC) Member
| 2020 |
IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) |
| 2019 | ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) [Shadow] |
Reviewer
Invited Reviewer
| 2020 |
IEEE INFOCOM |
| 2019 |
ACM AIChallengeIoT IEEE ICC NGNI Symposium |
| 2017 | ACM ICN |
Jury
| 2017 | HackEdge hackathon organized by CEACS |
Organizer
| 2017 | 3rd CleanSky International Conference |
| 2016 | 2nd CleanSky Summer School [+Web-Admin] |
Teaching
Instructor
| 2020 | Hot Topics in Edge Computing Technical University of Munich |
| 2020 | Internet for All Technical University of Munich |
Teaching Assistant
| 2019 | Cloud & Edge Computing University of Helsinki |
| 2018 | Distributed Data Infrastructures University of Helsinki |
| 2017 | Distributed Data Infrastructures University of Helsinki |
| 2016 | Distributed Systems University of Helsinki |
| 2015 | Cellular Data Networks IIIT Delhi |
Guest Lecturer
| 2018 | Introduction to Data Science University of Helsinki |
Funding and Support
My research career has been supported by many research projects, grants and organizations. I am truly grateful for their generous support.
Research Projects
| 01/2020 - Current | Virtual Mobility World (ViM) | Bavarian State Government |
| 03/2019 - 12/2019 | Adaptive and Intelligent Data (AIDA) | Academy of Finland |
| 07/2018 - 03/2019 | Bright Clouds Dark Clouds (BCDC) | Academy of Finland |
| 08/2015 - 07/2018 | Cleansky Initial Training Network | EU FP7 Marie Curie |
Monetary Grants
| 10/2019 | Travel grant for Internet Measurements Conference 2019 | Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| 07/2019 | Travel grant for Shadow PC meeting of Internet Measurements Conference 2019 | Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| 11/2018 | Travel grant for ACM Mobile Computing & Networking (MobiCom) 2018 | Microsoft Research |
| 01/2018 - 05/2018 | Visiting Researcher at Computer Network Group, University of Göttingen | European Union |
| 11/2016 - 03/2017 | Visiting Researcher at NEC Europe, Heidelberg, Germany | European Union |
| 05/2014 | Travel grant for 4th South Asia Workshop On Research Frontiers In Computing | National University of Singapore |
Organizations
I am also very thankful towards several organizations for kindly supporting my research by proving access to their platforms and data.
