Anirudh Badam

About Me

I am currently a second year graduate student at the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. I previously obtained a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras in 2006.

Research

Distributed Systems
Computer Networks
Operating Systems

I worked with Prof. Sivaram Murthy at HPCN Lab for my undergraduate thesis work. The work was about developing new protocols for video multicast in ad hoc wireless networks. I learnt a lot during that one year about Computer Networks.

I interned at IBM during the summer after the 3rd year at IIT Madras. There I worked on developing a middleware for applications that can utilize parallel processing. I was working with Jagir Hussan, who is now a researcher at University of Auckland, New Zealand. It was a great experience to work at a giant research institution like IBM. 

At Princeton, I work with Prof. Vivek S. Pai. We are working on making the Internet better for developing regions. Resources like memory, network and CPU are vital for systems used by developing regions. We are working to provide systems that perform well in highly resource constrained settings.

Currently, I am at HP Labs, Princeton, for a summer internship. I am working with Jack Brassil towards developing a transport protocol in the presence of a mechanism to guarantee explicit band width to a link between 2 hosts. Anangran is a company which manufatures routers which provide such bandwidth guarantees for end-to-end links involving these routers.

Courses

• Fall 2006
• COS 521 - Advanced Algorithm Design
• COS 561 - Advanced Computer Networks
• Spring 2007
• COS 424 - Interacting With Data
• Fall 2007
• COS 518 - Advanced Operating Systems

T.A.

• Fall 2007
• COS 217 - Introduction to Programming Systems
• Spring 2008
• COS 333 - Advanced Programming Techniques

Projects

• HashCache - An efficient indexing mechanism for web caching filesystems. Using this we have created a low memory web proxy for the sake of developing regions. We have produced an indexing mechanism for caching information so that it takes lesser memory and provides the same old performance guarantees of a high performance system. HashCache can be used for embedded systems, laptops, desktop class shared systems and even powerful servers capable of hosting data centers. It is a complete solution to web caching with tweakable performance that scales with the available memory in a system.
• 10g - A peer-to-peer WAN Accelerator for poorly connected networks (developing regions). This project is in collaboration with Sunghwan Ihm . We are developing a peer-to-peer system using WAN accelerators to reduce the usage of cross regional links. This would further decrease the cost of Internet for developing regions, as satellite and submarine links are very expensive and delay prone.

Contact

E-mail     :    abadam AT cs DOT princeton DOT edu
Phone     :    609 - 258 1796
Address  :    317 Computer Science
                    35 Olden Street  
                    Princeton
                    NJ 08544