Projects

• Software-Defined Middlebox Networking [HotNets 2012, WISDoM Kick-off, LADIS 2012]
• Middlebox Support in Clouds [Tech Report]
• Middlebox Design [Tech Report]
• Cellular Network Measurement [IMC 2012]
• Mobile Application Offloading (Past) [ANCS 2012, Hot-ICE 2012]
• Redundancy Elimination in Wireless Networks (Past) [MobiCom 2011, PAM 2011]
• Embedded Xinu (Past) [SIGCSE 2009 SRC]

Conference and Workshop Papers

2012

• Obtaining In-context Measurements of Cellular Network Performance [pdf] [dataset] [slides]
  Aaron Gember, Aditya Akella, Jeffrey Pang, Alexander Varshavsky, and Ramon Caceres.
  Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Boston, MA, 2012.
• Toward Software-Defined Middlebox Networking [pdf] [slides]
  Aaron Gember, Prathmesh Prabhu, Zainab Ghadiyali, and Aditya Akella.
  Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Redmond, WA, 2012.
• ECOS: Leveraging Software-Defined Networks to Support Mobile Application Offloading [pdf] [slides]
  Aaron Gember, Christopher Dragga, and Aditya Akella
  Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), Austin, TX, 2012.
• Challenges in Unifying Control of Middlebox Traversals and Functionality [pdf] [slides]
  Aaron Gember, Theophilus Benson, and Aditya Akella.
  Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS), Madeira, Portugal, 2012.
• ECOS: Practical Mobile Application Offloading for Enterprises [pdf] [slides]
  Aaron Gember, Chris Dragga, and Aditya Akella.
  USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and Services(Hot-ICE), San Jose, CA, 2012.

2011

• REfactor-ing Content Overhearing to Improve Wireless Performance [pdf] [slides]
  Shan-Hsiang Shen, Aaron Gember, Ashok Anand, and Aditya Akella.
  MobiCom, Las Vegas, NV, 2011.
• A Comparative Study of Handheld and Non-Handheld Traffic in Campus WiFi Networks [pdf] [slides]
  Aaron Gember, Ashok Anand, and Aditya Akella.
  Passive and Active Measurements (PAM), Atlanta, GA, 2011.

2010

• Tracking Semantic Relationships for Effective Data Management in Home Networks [pdf]
  Ashok Anand, Aaron Gember, Vyas Sekar, and Aditya Akella.
  ACM SIGCOMM HomeNets Workshop, New Delhi, India, 2010.

Posters & Technical Reports

2013

• Design and Implementation of a Framework for Software-Defined Middlebox Networking [pdf]
  Aaron Gember, Junaid Khalid, Robert Grandl, Shan-Hsiang Shen, and Aditya Akella.
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Technical Report TR1794, Madison, WI, 2013.
• Stratos: A Network-Aware Orchestration Layer for Middleboxes in the Cloud [pdf]
  Aaron Gember, Anand Krishnamurthy, Saul St. John, Robert Grandl, Xiaoyang Gao, Ashok Anand, Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, and Vyas Sekar.
  Technical Report arXiv:1305.0209, 2013.

2012

• Generic Design Patterns for Tunable and High-Performance SSD-based Indexes [pdf]
  Ashok Anand, Aaron Gember, and Aditya Akella.
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Technical Report TR1778, Madison, WI, 2012.
• Software-Defined Middlebox Networking [poster]
  Aaron Gember, Prathmesh Prabhu, Zainab Ghadiyali, Junaid Khalid, and Aditya Akella.
  WISDoM Kick-off Workshop, Madison, WI, 2012.
• Stratos: Virtual Middleboxes as First-Class Entities [pdf]
  Aaron Gember, Robert Grandl, Ashok Anand, Theophilus Benson, and Aditya Akella.
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Technical Report TR1771, Madison, WI, 2012.

2011

• Enterprise Centric Offloading System [poster]
  Aaron Gember and Aditya Akella.
  12th GENI Engineering Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2011.
• Secure Opportunistic Mobile Application Offload for Enterprise Networks [poster]
  Aaron Gember and Aditya Akella.
  10th GENI Engineering Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2011.

2010

• Handheld vs. Non-Handheld Traffic: Implications for Campus WiFi Networks [pdf]
  Aaron Gember, Ashok Anand, and Aditya Akella.
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Technical Report TR1679, Madison, WI, 2010.
• SONOMA: Secure Opportunistic Network-Wide Offload for Mobile Applications [summary] [poster]
  Aaron Gember and Aditya Akella.
  9th GENI Engineering Conference, Washington, DC, 2010.
• Mobile Device Offloading Using Enterprise Network and Cloud Resources [summary] [poster]
  Aaron Gember and Aditya Akella.
  8th GENI Engineering Conference, San Diego, CA, 2010.

2009

• Real-Time TCP for Embedded Devices [summary]
  Aaron Gember and Dennis Brylow.
  SIGCSE Student Research Competition, Chattanooga, TN, 2009.