Hitesh Ballani Contact Information: 4130 Upson Hall, Cornell University, New York, NY 14853

I am a sixth year graduate student in the Computer Science department at Cornell. My research interests are in computer networks and my advisor is Paul Francis. I will be graduating in May 2009 and am on the job market. My application material is posted here.

Projects

I have worked on the following projects:

• Virtual Aggregation (ViAggre)
• Complexity Oblivious Network Management (CONMan)
• Proxy IP Anycast Service (PIAS)
• Forages into topics pertaining to network security such as DoS attacks, Prefix hijacks, etc.

Publications

• Making Routers Last Longer with ViAggre
  Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis, Tuan Cao and Jia Wang
  USENIX NSDI 2009, Boston, MA, April 2009.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• Fault Management Using the CONMan Abstraction
  Hitesh Ballani and Paul Francis
  IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.   [pdf, bibtex]
• ViAggre: Making Routers Last Longer!
  Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis, Tuan Cao and Jia Wang
  7th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
  HotNets 2008, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 2008.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• Mitigating DNS DoS Attacks
  Hitesh Ballani and Paul Francis
  ACM CCS 2008, Alexandria, VA, October 2008.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• CONMan: A Step Towards Network Manageability
  Hitesh Ballani and Paul Francis
  ACM SIGCOMM 2007, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• A Study of Prefix Hijacking and Interception in the Internet
  Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis and Xinyang Zhang
  ACM SIGCOMM 2007, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• A Simple Approach to DNS DoS Mitigation
  Hitesh Ballani and Paul Francis
  5th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
  HotNets 2006, Irvine, CA, November 2006.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• A Measurement-based Deployment Proposal for IP Anycast
  Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis and Sylvia Ratnasamy
  ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference
  IMC 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2006.   [pdf, bibtex] (Awarded Best Paper)
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• CONMan - Taking the Complexity out of Network Management
  Hitesh Ballani and Paul Francis
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management
  INM 2006, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• Off by Default!
  Hitesh Ballani, Yatin Chawathe, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Timothy Roscoe, and Scott Shenker
  4th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
  HotNets 2005, College Park, MD, November 2005.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• Towards a global IP Anycast service
  Hitesh Ballani and Paul Francis
  ACM SIGCOMM 2005, Philadelphia, PA, September 2005.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)
  
• Towards a Deployable IP Anycast Service
  Hitesh Ballani and Paul Francis
  1st USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems
  WORLDS 2004, San Francisco, CA, December 2004.   [pdf, bibtex]
  talk slides (pdf)