I am a Postdoctoral fellow in Chair of Connected Mobility, Technical University of Munich, Germany with Prof. Dr. Jörg Ott.

I did my Ph.D. (Marie Curie Fellow) in Collaborative Networking research group at University of Helsinki, Finland in 2019 with Prof. Dr. Jussi Kangasharju.

My Ph.D. thesis has been awarded Outstanding Ph.D. dissertation award 2020 by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC).

Recent News

January, 2023 I am serving as a PC member for Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2023.
January, 2023 I am serving as a PC member for Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) 2023.
January, 2023 Patrick Sabanic successfully defended his master thesis "Supporting Unikernel-based microservices at the edge.". Congratulations Patrick!
November, 2022 I am serving as a PC member for Edge Computing track of 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2023.
November, 2022 Hosting Xiang Su (Assoc Prof. @ NTNU, NO) at TUM.
October, 2022 I am serving on the IRTF ANRP 2023 award committee. Consider submitting your cool accepted research works as nomination! Deadline mid-November!
October, 2022 I am serving as a PC member for Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2023.
September, 2022 Uthra Ambalavanan presented our work on DICer: Distributed Coordination for In-Network Computations in IETF COINRG Interim. Check it out below.
September, 2022 Our paper The Many Faces of Edge Intelligence is accepted in IEEE Access.
August, 2022 Our project proposal EDGELESS on cognitive edge computing was successfully awarded 5.4M euro funding by EU Horizon 2020. The consortium includes Telefonica Research, University of Cambridge, Siemens, Infinion, amongst others.
August, 2022 Maria Nievas Viñals successfully defended her bachelor thesis "Designing Interaction Framework for Multi-Admin Edge Infrastructures.". You can check out her final presentation here. Congratulations Maria!
August, 2022 APNIC coverage of our MPTCP support is out now. Read it here.
August, 2022 Our paper Analyzing Real-time Video Delivery over Cellular Networks for Remote Piloting Aerial Vehicles is accepted in ACM Internet Measurements Conference (IMC).
August, 2022 Oakestra's webpage is now live at oakestra.io .
August, 2022 I have been invited to participate in Dagstuhl seminar on Lessons Learned From 40+ Years of the Internet in Dagstuhl, Germany.
August, 2022 Our paper DICer: Distributed Coordination for In-Network Computations is accepted in ACM Information-Centric Networking (ICN).
August, 2022 Our paper Resource Reservation in Information Centric Networking is accepted as a poster in ACM Information-Centric Networking (ICN).
August, 2022 I have been invited to participate in Munich Internet Research Retreat (MIR^3) in Raitenhaslach, Germany.
August, 2022 I am organizing the PerFail 2023 colocated with PerCom 2023 with Ella Peltonen and Peter Zdankin. CFP to be released soon.
August, 2022 Stefan Vladov successfully defended his master thesis "Have your cake and eat it too: Analyzing energy usage in blockchain protocols.". You can check out his final presentation here. Congratulations Stefan!
July, 2022 I am teaching the Internet Computing seminar course with my colleague Raphael Hetzel in the coming winter semester at TUM.
June, 2022 Our work Oakestra: An Orchestration Framework for Edge Computing is accepted in ACM SIGCOMM 2022 as a demo.
June, 2022 Hosting Abhishek Kumar (PostDoc @ University of Oulu, FI and UIUC, USA) at the Chair for the month of June.
June, 2022 I will be attending and presenting our orchestration framework for edge computing Oakestra at 34th Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN 2022) to be held at The Cosener's House, UK.
May, 2022 Sonia Klärmann successfully defended her master thesis "Evaluating the Suitability of Kubernetes for Edge Computing Infrastructure". You can check out her final presentation here. Congratulations Sonia!
May, 2022 Edward Waterman successfully defended his master thesis "Agricultural AI Development on the Edge with NEVONEX". Congratulations Edward!
April, 2021 I am co-chairing the Ph.D. forum at NetSys 2023 with Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch.
March, 2022 Daniel Mair successfully defended his bachelor thesis "Designing Robust Interaction Frontend for Decentralized Edge Infrastructures". You can check out his final presentation here. Congratulations Daniel!
March, 2022 PerFail 2022 (with IEEE PerCom 2022) program is out! The workshop will discuss negative results and experiences in research from four technical talks, keynote by Prof. Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki) and panel of experts featuring Prof. Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge), Dr. Victor Bahl (CTO, AfO, Microsoft Research), Dr. Suzan Bayhan (University of Twente), Dr. Keith Winstein (Stanford University) and Prof. Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg). Registrations are open now!
March, 2022 Kaushik Chavali successfully defended his master thesis "Feasibility Analysis of Multipath TCP for the Connectivity of Remote Piloting Operations of Drones and Flying Taxis". Congratulations Kaushik!
March, 2022 Our paper ComB: A Flexible, Application-Oriented Benchmark for Edge Computing is accepted in ACM Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys) co-located with ACM EuroSys 2022.
February, 2022 Oliver Haluszczynski successfully defended his master thesis "Service Scheduling for EdgeIO platform". You can check out his final presentation here. Congratulations Oliver!
February, 2022 I am serving as a PC member for Network Traffic Measurements and Analysis (TMA) 2022.
February, 2022 I am serving as a PC member for ACM Information-Centric Networking (ICN) 2022.
January, 2022 Our paper Roadmap for EdgeAI: A Dagstuhl Perspective is accepted in ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR).
January, 2022 Our paper Nimbus: Towards Latency-Energy Efficient Task Offloading for AR Services is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC).
January, 2022 Simon Bäurle successfully defended his master thesis "A Flexible, Application-focused Benchmarking Suite for Edge Infrastructures". You can check out his final presentation here. Congratulations Simon!
January, 2022 Our paper Contact Duration: Intricacies of Human Mobility is accepted in Online Social Networks and Media.
October, 2021 The talk for our IMC 2021 paper Cloudy with a Chance of Short RTTs: Analyzing Cloud Connectivity in the Internet is now live! Check it out below.
October, 2021 Nikita Charushnikov and Mario Turic successfully defended their bachelor theses. Congratulations to both Nikita and Mario!
October, 2021 Two papers accepted in ACM Interdisciplinary Workshop on (de)Centralization in the Internet (IWCI) 2021 → Distributed Ledgers for Distributed Edge: Are we there yet? and Decentralizing Computation with Edge Computing: Potential and Challenges. Details out soon!
October, 2021 I am serving as a PC member for Edge Computing track of 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2022.
September, 2021 Giovanni Bartolomeo successfully defended his master thesis "Enabling Microservice Interactions within Heterogeneous Edge Infrastructures". You can check out his final Presentation here. Congratulations Giovanni!
September, 2021 The call-for-papers and webpage of PerFail workshop colocated with PerCom 2022 is out now! Please consider submitting your work there.
August, 2021 Our paper Cloudy with a Chance of Short RTTs: Analyzing Cloud Connectivity in the Internet is accepted in ACM Internet Measurements Conference (IMC) 2021.
August, 2021 Ralf Baun successfully defended his master thesis Realizing self-organizing platforms for edge service deployments. Congratulations Ralf!
August, 2021 I am organizing the PerFail workshop colocated with PerCom 2022 with Ella Peltonen and Peter Zdankin.
August, 2021 Oliver Gasser presented our work on MPTCP support in the Internet in IETF 111 maprg. Check it out below.
July, 2021 Hendrik Cech successfully defended his master thesis Evaluating Transport Protocols for Remote Piloting of Aerial Vehicles. Congratulations Hendrik!
July, 2021 I have been invited to participate in Dagstuhl seminar on Identifying Key Enablers in Edge Intelligence in Dagstuhl, Germany.
July, 2021 I am organizing the Doctoral Seminar (DocSem) at Chair of Connected Mobility in TUM.
July, 2021 I will be taking the Hot Topics for Edge Computing seminar course with my colleague Leonardo Tonetto in the coming winter semester at TUM.
July, 2021 Leo Eichhorn successfully defended his master thesis Exploring Latency Boundaries of Blockchains in Edge Computing Networks Using Emulation. Congratulations Leo!
June, 2021 I have been invited as a panelist at Students in MobiSys (SMS) workshop held in conjunction with MobiSys 2021.
June, 2021 We have launched MPTCP Measurement Service at mptcp.io where we regularly publish the scan results for MPTCPv0 and MPTCPv1 in IPv4 and IPv6.
June, 2021 I am attending the Lorentz workshop on Beyond the Mobile-Cloud Computing Paradigm in Leiden, the Netherlands virtually.
May, 2021 The Khang Dang successfully defended his bachelor thesis Analyzing Cloud Reachability via Wireless Networks on Global Scale. Congratulations The Khang!
May, 2021 RIPE Labs coverage of our cloud reachability research is out now. Read it here.
May, 2021 Hasso Plattner Institut (HPI) will support our edge computing research by providing us access to their Service Oriented Computing lab infrastructure. Thank you HPI!
May, 2021 I am serving as a PC member for Edge Computing and IoT track of 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) 2021. Please consider submitting your cool research there.
April, 2021 I am giving an invited talk on "Reality Check for Edge Computing" in 22nd Future SOC Lab Day hosted by Hasso Plattner Institut (HPI).
April, 2021 Two papers accepted in IFIP Networking 2021 → From Single Lane to Highways: Analyzing the Adoption of Multipath TCP in the Internet and (How Much) Can Edge Computing Change Network Latency?. Details out soon!
February, 2021 Mehdi Yosofie successfully defended his master thesis Flexible Multi-Cluster Edge Orchestration and Task Scheduling Platform. Congratulations Mehdi!
February, 2021 I will be taking the Human-Centric Netwoking seminar course with my colleague Leonardo Tonetto in the coming summer semester at TUM.
January, 2021 I am serving as a PC member for Workshop on Intelligent Things and Services (InThings) jointly held with IEEE WoWMoM 2021 . Please consider submitting your work there.
January, 2021 Our paper Surrounded by the Clouds: A Comprehensive Cloud Reachability Study is accepted in The Web Conference (WebConf) 2021 (formerly known as WWW) to be held in Slovenia.
January, 2021 Our paper SPA: Harnessing Availability in the AWS Spot Market is accepted in 3rd IEEE Infocom Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking to be held virtually.
November, 2020 Maximilian Eder successfully defended his bachelor thesis Analyzing Cloud Reachability on Global Scale. Congratulations Maximilian!
November, 2020 I am serving as a PC member for Edge Computing track of 41st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2021
November, 2020 I have been awarded Outstanding Ph.D Dissertation Award 2020 by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). The award is highly competitive and celebrates PhD dissertations that make extraordinary research contributions to the field of scalable computing.
October, 2020 The talk for our paper Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears is now live! Check it out below.
October, 2020 Florian Aschenbrenner successfully defended his bachelor thesis Measuring and Analyzing Multipath TCP support on the Internet. Congratulations Florian!
September, 2020 Gave a talk about our HotNets work in Munich Internet Research Retreat Raitenhaslach (MIR^3). It was my first physical talk of this year.
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 virtually.
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.
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Research Overview

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 CCR '22 ICN '22 HotNets '20 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 Networking '18 Mobicom '18
Internet-wide Measurements
I am interested in analyzing and challenging several widespread preconceptions within networking research community via real-world measurements. The problems I particularly tackle in this domain range from performance analysis of transport protocols (TCP, QUIC, etc.) in varying environments and workloads, Internet-wide scans to analyze support for emerging protocols and widescale measurments to analyze cloud/CDN reachability.
Selected Publications IMC '21 Networking '21 WebConf '21
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 IMC '22 TCC '22 Networking '21 HotNets '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 IWCI '21 ICDCS '19 HotEdge '19

Publications

2022
The Many Faces of Edge Intelligence
Ella Peltonen, Ijaz Ahmad, Atakan Aral, Michele Capobianco, Aaron Yi Ding, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Ekaterina Gilman, Erkki Harjula, Marko Jurmu, Teemu Karvonen, Markus Kelanti, Teemu Leppänen, Lauri Lovén, Tommi Mikkonen, Nitinder Mohan, Petteri Nurmi, Susanna Pirttikangas, Paweł Sroka, Sasu Tarkoma, Tingting Yang
IEEE Access [Impact Factor: 3.476]

DOI

Analyzing Real-time Video Delivery over Cellular Networks for Remote Piloting Aerial Vehicles
Aygün Baltaci, Hendrik Cech, Nitinder Mohan, Fabien Geyer, Vaibhav Bajpai, Jörg Ott, Dominik Schupke
22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) [Acceptance Rate: 26.4%, 56/212]

Code Dataset DOI

DICer: Distributed Coordination for In-Network Computations
Uthra Ambalavanan, Dennis Grewe, Naresh Nayak, Liming Liu, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott
ACM Information-Centric Networking (ICN)

DOI IETF coverage

[Poster] Resource Reservation in Information Centric Networking
Uthra Ambalavanan, Naresh Nayak, Dennis Grewe, Nitinder Mohan
ACM Information-Centric Networking (ICN)

DOI Poster

[Demo] Oakestra: An Orchestration Framework for Edge Computing
Giovanni Bartolomeo, Simon Bäurle, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott
ACM SIGCOMM [Acceptance Rate: 33.8%, 21/62]

Code DOI Website Poster

ComB: A Flexible, Application-Oriented Benchmark for Edge Computing
Simon Bäurle, Nitinder Mohan
ACM Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys)

Code DOI

Roadmap for Edge AI: A Dagstuhl Perspective
Aaron Yi Ding, Ella Peltonen, Tobias Meuser, Atakan Aral, Christian Becker, Schahram Dustdar, Thomas Hiessl, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Madhusanka Liyanage, Setareh Maghsudi, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Stefan Schulte, Henning Schulzrinne, Gürkan Solmaz, Sasu Tarkoma, Blesson Varghese, Lars Wolf
ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR) (editorial) [Impact Factor: 2.71]

DOI

Nimbus: Towards Latency-Energy Efficient Task Offloading for AR Services
Vittorio Cozzolino, Leonardo Tonetto, Nitinder Mohan, Aaron Yi Ding, Jörg Ott
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) [Impact Factor: 5.96]

Code DOI

Contact Duration: Intricacies of Human Mobility
Leonardo Tonetto, Malintha Adikari, Nitinder Mohan, Aaron Yi Ding, Jörg Ott
Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM) [Impact Factor: 3.79]

DOI

2021
Cloudy with a Chance of Short RTTs: Analyzing Cloud Connectivity in the Internet
The Khang Dang*, Nitinder Mohan*, Lorenzo Corneo, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Jörg Ott, Jussi Kangasharju
(*joint first authors)
21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) [Acceptance Rate: 27.9%, 55/197]

Code Dataset Video DOI Website

Distributed Ledgers for Distributed Edge: Are we there yet?
Leo Eichhorn, Tanya Shreedhar, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Nitinder Mohan
ACM CoNEXT Interdisciplinary Workshop on (de)Centralization in the Internet (ACM IWCI)

Code DOI

Decentralizing Computation with Edge Computing: Potential and Challenges
Aleksandr Zavodovski, Lorenzo Corneo, Andreas Johnsson, Nitinder Mohan, Suzan Bayhan, Pengyuan Zhou, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju
ACM CoNEXT Interdisciplinary Workshop on (de)Centralization in the Internet (ACM IWCI)

DOI

From Single Lane to Highways: Analyzing the Adoption of Multipath TCP in the Internet
Florian Aschenbrenner, Tanya Shreedhar, Oliver Gasser, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott
20th IFIP Networking Conference (Networking) [Acceptance rate 25.9%, 41/188]

Dataset Video Website IETF coverage APNIC coverage DOI

(How Much) Can Edge Computing Change Network Latency?
Lorenzo Corneo, Nitinder Mohan, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Walter Wong, Christian Rohner, Per Gunningberg, Jussi Kangasharju
20th IFIP Networking Conference (Networking) [Acceptance rate 25.9%, 41/188]

Dataset Video DOI Website

Surrounded by the Clouds: A Comprehensive Cloud Reachability Study
Lorenzo Corneo, Maximilian Eder, Nitinder Mohan, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, Per Gunningberg, Jussi Kangasharju, Jörg Ott
30th The Web Conference (WebConf - Formerly WWW) [Acceptance rate 20.6%, 357/1736]

Code Dataset DOI Video Website RIPE coverage

SPA: Harnessing Availability in the AWS Spot Market
Walter Wong, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Lorenzo Corneo, Nitinder Mohan, Jussi Kangasharju
IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCCN)

Slides DOI

2020
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) [Acceptance rate 25%, 30/120]

Dataset Slides Video DOI Website RIPE Labs

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)

Slides DOI

2019
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

Slides DOI

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) [Acceptance rate 19.6%]

Slides DOI

ExEC: Elastic Extensible Edge Cloud
Aleksandr Zavodovski, Nitinder Mohan, Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju
ACM Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys)

Slides DOI

2018
ICON: Intelligent Container Overlays
Aleksandr Zavodovski, Nitinder Mohan, Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju
17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) [Acceptance rate 20.8%, 26/125]

Slides Poster Video DOI

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)

Code Poster SRC Presentation DOI

Anveshak: Placing Edge Servers In The Wild
Nitinder Mohan, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Pengyuan Zhou, Jussi Kangasharju
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM), SIGCOMM

Code Slides Video DOI

Placing it right!: Optimizing energy, processing, and transport in Edge-Fog clouds
Nitinder Mohan, Jussi Kangasharju
Annals of Telecommunication, Springer

Code DOI

QAware: A Cross-Layer Approach to MPTCP Scheduling
Tanya Shreedhar, Nitinder Mohan, Sanjit K. Kaul, Jussi Kangasharju
17th IFIP Networking Conference (Networking) [Acceptance rate 24.4%, 55/225]

Code Proceedings DOI

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

Slides DOI

2017
Managing Data in Computational Edge Clouds
Nitinder Mohan, Pengyuan Zhou, Keerthana Govindaraj, Jussi Kangasharju
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM), SIGCOMM

Code Slides Video DOI

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

Poster DOI

2016
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)

Code Slides DOI

2015
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

Code

Enabling Sender-initiated Distributed Applications and Checkpointing in Content Centric Networks
M.Tech. Thesis
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, India
Best Thesis Nominee

People

I am actively looking for MSc, BSc and Guided Research students. I post currently available research topics at the Chair of Connected Mobility webpage.

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Ph.D. Students
The Ph.D. students are supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Ott
2022 Giovanni Bartolomeo. Orchestration for Distributed Edge Infrastructures.
2022 Uthra Ambalavanan. Enabling in-network computing and resource orchestration using ICN. (external with Robert Bosch Research)
2021 Mehmet Mert Beşe. Edge Resource Modeling and Management in 6G.
2021 Hendrik Cech. Next-Generation Transport for Next-Generation Applications.
Visiting Researchers
2022 Xiang Su. Assoc. Prof. @ NTNU Norway
2022 Abhishek Kumar. PostDoc @ University of Oulu, FI & UIUC, USA
Master Students
2023 Karthik Narumanchi. Designing a global network measurement platform.
2023 Markus Grühlke. Designing an extensible edge computing testbed.
2023 Michael Schliker. Multi-cloud infrastructure broker.
2023 Aldo Tali. Distributed Persistence at the Edge for Containerized Applications.
2023 Gilles Tanson. Designing decentralized AR communication application.
2023 Yuan Zhuang. Age-based control plane for edge orchestration.
2022 Md. Mahfuzul Haque Muftee. Web-based platform for LEO satellite measurements.
2022 Patrick Sabanic. Supporting Unikernel-based microservices at the edge.
2022 Stefan Vladov. Have your cake and eat it too: Analyzing energy usage in blockchain protocols.
Thesis Presentation
2021 Kaushik Chavali. Feasibility Analysis of MPTCP for Remote Piloting Operations of Drones and Flying Taxis.
Thesis
2022 Edward Waterman. Agricultural AI Development on the Edge with NEVONEX. (in collaboration with Bosch Research)
2022 Sonia Klärmann. Evaluating the Suitability of Kubernetes for Edge Computing Infrastructure. (in collaboration with NTT DATA)
Thesis Presentation
2021 Oliver Haluszczynski. Service Scheduling for EdgeIO platform.
Thesis Presentation
2021 Simon Bäurle. A Robust Benchmarking Suite for Edge Infrastructures.
Thesis Presentation Published in EdgeSys 2022
2021 Giovanni Bartolomeo. Enabling Microservice Interactions within Heterogeneous Edge Infrastructures.
Thesis Presentation
2021 Hendrik Cech. Evaluating Transport Protocols for Remote Piloting of Aerial Vehicles.
Thesis Published in IMC 2022
2021 Ralf Baun. Realizing self-organizing platforms for edge service deployments.
Thesis Presentation
2021 Leo Eichhorn. Exploring latency boundaries of blockchains in edge computing networks.
Thesis Published in ACM IWCI 2021
2020 Mehdi Yosofie. Flexible multi-cluster edge orchestration and task scheduling platform.
Thesis
Bachelor Students
2022 Maria Nievas Viñals. Designing Interaction Framework for Multi-Admin Edge Infrastructures.
2021 Daniel Mair. Designing Robust Interaction Frontend for Decentralized Edge Infrastructures.
Thesis Presentation
2021 Nikita Charushnikov. Extending ViM platform with flexible analysis and scalable user access.
2021 Mario Turic. Supporting Flexible Simulations for Vehicular Scenarios in ViM Platform.
2020 The Khang Dang. Analyzing Cloud Reachability via Wireless Networks on Global Scale.
Thesis Published in ACM IMC 2021
2020 Florian Aschenbrenner. Measuring and Analysing MPTCP Support on the Internet.
Thesis Published in IFIP Networking 2021
2020 Maximilian Eder. Analysing Cloud Reachability on Global Scale.
Thesis Published in TheWebConf 2021
Guided Research
2022 Prakita Renatin. Understanding operations of satellite networks.
2021 Maximilian Eder. Enabling Developer Interactions via Robust SLAs in Edge Infrastructures.
2020 Hendrik Cech. Analysing and Realizing MPTCP Schedulers in Linux.
Report
Interdisciplinary Project
2022 Simon Zelenski. Transitioning the Edge Computing Framework Oakestra to IPv6.
2022 Daniel Mair. Enhancement of the Oakestra User Interface.
Volunteer Mentorship in Conferences/Workshops
2021 International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)

Service

Organizer
2023 PerFail Workshop - Percom 2023
Ph.D. Forum Co-Chair - NetSys 2023
2022 Unikraft TUM Hackathon
PerFail Workshop - Percom 2022
2021 Doctoral Seminar (DocSem) - TUM
2017 3rd CleanSky International Conference
2016 2nd CleanSky Summer School [+Web-Admin]
Award Committee
2023 IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP)
2017 HackEdge hackathon organized by CEACS
Program Committee (PC) Member
2023 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA)
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM)
International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom)
2022 Information-Centric Networking (ICN)
International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN)
Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA)
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom)
2021 International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN)
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom)
2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom)
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
2019 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) [Shadow]

Teaching

Instructor
2022 Connected Mobility Basics Technical University of Munich
2022 Internet Computing Technical University of Munich
2021 Hot Topics in Edge Computing Technical University of Munich
2021 Human Centric Networks Technical University of Munich
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 & Support

My research career has been supported by many research projects, grants and organizations. I am truly grateful for their generous support.

Research Projects
2022 - Current EDGELESS
Support -- 5.4 million euros 		EU Horizon 2020
10/2021 - Current 6G Life
Support -- 70 million euros 		BMBF Germany
07/2021 - Current 6G Future Lab
Support -- 4 million euros 		Bavarian State Ministry
01/2021 - Current Piccolo
Support -- 1.5 million euros 		EU Celtic-Next
01/2020 - 09/2021 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.