Amogh Dhamdhere

Updates

[May 2018] Our paper "Inferring Persistent Interdomain Congestion" got the best paper award at ACM SIGCOMM 2018!.

[Apr 2018] Our work on studying the evolution of Content Providers in the Internet core will appear at the TMA 2018.

[Mar 2018] MANIC PANDA has arrived.

[Mar 2018] Kirill Levchenko (UCSD CSE) and I received a grant from the Comcast Innovation Fund to support PacketLab, a universal interface to measurement platforms.

[Mar 2018] Our work on "Nash Peering" will appear at the IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2018.

[Mar 2018] Our work on investigating YouTube load balancing appeared at PAM 2018.

[Jan 2018] I am TPC co-chair for TMA 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Hope to see you there!

[Jan 2018] I am serving on the program committees of CoNEXT 2018, Netecon 2018, Internet QoE Workshop 2018, and ITC 2018 Area 2 (Network Measurements and Big Data).

Research Interests

Internet measurement Internet topology Internet economics IPv6 topology and performance Network monitoring and troubleshooting

Publications

Google scholar, DBLP

Pushing the Boundaries with bdrmapIT: Mapping Router Ownership at Internet Scale (pdf)
Alexander Marder, Matthew Luckie, Amogh Dhamdhere, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy, Jonathan M. Smith
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nov 2018.

Policy Implications of Third-Party Measurement of Interdomain Congestion on the Internet (pdf)
David D. Clark, Amogh Dhamdhere, Matthew Luckie, kc Claffy
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Sep 2018.

Inferring Persistent Interdomain Congestion (pdf)(slides)
A. Dhamdhere, D. Clark, A. Gamero-Garrido, M. Luckie, R. Mok, G. Akiwate, K. Gogia, V. Bajpai, A. Snoeren, k. claffy
ACM SIGCOMM, Budapest Hungary, August 2018 (Best Paper).
Press Coverage: The Register, BGR

Studying the Evolution of Content Providers in the Internet Core (pdf)
Esteban Carisimo, Carlos Selmo, J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin, Amogh Dhamdhere
Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA) Conference, Vienna AT, June 2018.

Nash Peering: A New Techno-economic Framework for Internet Interconnections (pdf)
Doron Zarchy, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis, Michael Schapira
IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Honolulu HI, Apr 2018.

Revealing the Load Balancing Behavior of YouTube Traffic on Interdomain Links (pdf)
Ricky Mok, Vaibhav Bajpai, Amogh Dhamdhere, kc claffy
Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), Berlin, Mar 2018.

Inferring Carrier Grade NAT Deployments in the Wild (pdf)
Ioana Livadariu, Karyn Benson, Ahmed Elmokashfi, Amogh Dhamdhere, Alberto Dainotti
IEEE Infocom, Honolulu HI, Apr 2018.

Measuring IPv6 Adoption in Africa (pdf)
Ioana Livadariu, Ahmed Elmokashfi, Amogh Dhamdhere
International Workshop on Internet Measurements Research in Africa, Dec 2017.

TCP Congestion Signatures (pdf)
Srikanth Sundaresan, Amogh Dhamdhere, Mark Allman, kc claffy
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), London UK, Nov 2017.

Challenges in Inferring Interdomain Congestion Using Throughput-based Tests (pdf)
Srikanth Sundaresan, Danny Lee, Xiaohong Deng, Feng Yun, kc claffy, Amogh Dhamdhere
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), London UK, Nov 2017.

Packetlab: A Universal Measurement Endpoint Interface (pdf)
Kirill Levchenko, Amogh Dhamdhere, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), London UK, Nov 2017.

Investigating the Causes of Congestion on the African IXP Substrate (pdf)
Roderick Fanou, Amogh Dhamdhere, Francisco Valera
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), London UK, Nov 2017.

Reshaping the African Internet: From Scattered Islands to a Connected Continent (pdf)
Roderick Fanou, Pierre Francois, Francisco Valera, Amogh Dhamdhere
Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, 2017.

On IPv4 Address Transfers: Analyzing Reported Transfers and Inferring Transfers in the Wild (pdf)
Ioana Livadariu, Ahmed Elmokashfi, Amogh Dhamdhere
Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, 2017.

Reasons Dynamic Addresses Change (pdf)
Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Amogh Dhamdhere, Emile Aben, kc Claffy, Neil Spring
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Santa Monica CA, Nov 2016.

bdrmap: Inference of Borders Between IP Networks (pdf)
Matthew Luckie, Amogh Dhamdhere, Bradley Huffaker, David Clark, kc Claffy
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Santa Monica CA, Nov 2016.

Policy challenges in mapping Internet interdomain congestion (pdf)
kc Claffy, David Clark, Steve Bauer, Amogh Dhamdhere
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Sep 2016.

Periscope: Unifying Looking Glass Querying (pdf)
Vasileios Giotsas, Amogh Dhamdhere, kc Claffy
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Crete, Greece, Apr 2016.

NAT Revelio: Detecting NAT444 in the ISP (pdf)
Andra Lutu, Marcelo Bagnulo, Amogh Dhamdhere, kc Claffy
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Crete, Greece, Apr 2016.

Characterizing IPv6 Control and Data Plane Stability (pdf)
Ioana Livadariu, Ahmed Elmokashfi, Amogh Dhamdhere
IEEE Infocom, San Francisco CA, Apr 2016.

Investigating Excessive Delays in Mobile Broadband Networks (pdf)
Natalie Larson, Dziugas Baltrunas, Amund Kvalbein, Amogh Dhamdhere, kc Claffy, Ahmed Elmokashfi
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications, and Challenges, Aug 2015.

Leveraging the IPv4/IPv6 Identity Duality using Multipath Transport (pdf)
Ioana Livadariu, Simone Ferlin, Ozgu Alay, Thomas Dreibholz, Amogh Dhamdhere, Ahmed Elmokashfi
IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI), Hong Kong, Apr 2015.

Complexities in Internet Peering: Understanding the Black Art (pdf)
Aemen Lodhi, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis
IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, Apr 2015.

Challenges in Inferring Interdomain Congestion(pdf)
Matthew Luckie, Amogh Dhamdhere, David Clark, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Vancouver BC, Nov 2014.

Measurement and Analysis of Internet Interconnection and Congestion (pdf)
David Clark, Amogh Dhamdhere, Matthew Luckie, Steven Bauer, William Lehr, kc claffy
Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 42), Sept 2014.

Fair, Flexible and Feasible ISP Billing (pdf)
Vamseedhar Reddyvari, Amogh Dhamdhere, Srinivas Shakkotai, kc claffy
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PER), Dec 2014.
W-PIN+NetEcon 2014: The joint Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks and Systems, Austin TX, Jun 2014.

Using PeeringDB to Understand the Internet Peering Ecosystem (pdf)
Aemen Lodhi, Natalie Larson, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis, Kc Claffy
ACM Sigcomm Computer Communications Review (CCR), Apr 2014.

Open Peering by Internet Transit Providers: Peer Preference or Peer Pressure? (pdf)
Aemen Lodhi, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis
IEEE Infocom, Toronto, Canada, Apr 2014.

Volume-based Transit Pricing: Is 95 the right percentile? (pdf) (Vamsee's slides)
Vamseedhar Reddyvari, Amogh Dhamdhere, Srinivas Shakkotai, Alessandra Scicchitano, kc claffy, Simon Leinen
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Los Angeles CA, Mar 2014.

Revisiting BGP Churn Growth (pdf)
Ahmed Elmokashfi, Amogh Dhamdhere
ACM Sigcomm Computer Communications Review (CCR), Jan 2014.

A First Look at IPv4 Transfer Markets (pdf) (Ioana's slides)
Ioana Livadariu, Ahmed Elmokashfi, Amogh Dhamdhere, Kc Claffy
ACM CoNEXT, Santa Barbara CA, Dec 2013.

AS Relationships, Customer Cones, and Validation (pdf)
Matthew Luckie, Bradley Huffaker, Amogh Dhamdhere, Vasileos Giotsas, Kc Claffy
ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2013.

GENESIS-CBA: An Agent-based Model of Peer Evaluation and Selection in the Internet Interdomain Network (pdf)
Aemen Lodhi, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis
Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling Journal, 1:10, 2013.

ITMgen - A First-principles Approach to Generating Synthetic Interdomain Traffic Matrices (pdf) (Jakub's slides)
Jakub Mikians, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Amogh Dhamdhere, Pere Barlet-Ros
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.

Measuring the Deployment of IPv6: Topology, Routing, and Performance (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere, Matthew Luckie, Bradley Huffaker, Ahmed Elmokashfi, Emile Aben, Kc Claffy
ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Boston MA, November 2012.

Also presented at:
The Santa Fe Institute Business Network Topical Meeting on Measurement of Complex Networks, McLean, VA July 2012 (slides).
The 5th CAIDA-WIDE-CASFI Joint Measurement Workshop, San Diego CA, August 2012 (slides).
The Chinese American Networking Symposium (CANS) , Seattle WA, October 2012 (slides).

In the News:
Worldwide IPv6 Adoption: Where Do We Stand Today?, Slashdot, Jan 2013.
IPv6 takes one step forward, IPv4 two steps back in 2012, Arstechnica, Jan 2013.
IPv6 Deployment Picks Up Speed, Slashdot, Dec 2012.

Peering Strategy adoption by Transit Providers in the Internet: A Game Theoretic Approach (pdf) (slides)
Aemen Lodhi, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 40, issue 2, Sept 2012.
Presented at:
W-PIN 2012, The first workshop on Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks, in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance, June 2012.

Towards a Statistical Characterization of the Interdomain Traffic Matrix (pdf) (Jakub's slides)
Jakub Mikians, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis, Pere Barlet-Ros, Josep Sole-Pareta
IFIP Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012.

Measuring the Evolution of Internet Peering Agreements (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere, Himalatha Cherukuru, Constantine Dovrolis, Kc Claffy
IFIP Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012.

Analysis of Peering Strategy Adoption by Transit Providers in the Internet (extended abstract) (paper and Aemen's slides available on request)
Aemen Lodhi, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis
7th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon), March 2012.

GENESIS: An Agent-based Model of Interdomain Network Formation, Traffic Flow and Economics (pdf) (Aemen's slides)
Aemen Lodhi, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis
IEEE Infocom, Miami FL, March 2012.

Towards a Cost Model for Network Traffic (pdf)
Murtaza Motiwala, Amogh Dhamdhere, Nick Feamster, Anukool Lakhina
ACM Sigcomm Computer Communications Review, January 2012.
Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE), San Diego CA, Dec 2011 (slides).

Twelve Years in the Evolution of the Internet Ecosystem (pdf) (data) (interactive)
Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 2011.
This is an extended version of our IMC 2008 paper.

Measured Impact of Crooked Traceroute (pdf)
Matthew Luckie, Amogh Dhamdhere, kc Claffy and David Murrell
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), January 2011.
Presented at the CAIDA AIMS 2011 workshop, San Diego CA, Feb 2011 (slides).

The Internet is Flat: Modeling the Transition from a Transit Hierarchy to a Peering Mesh (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere and Constantine Dovrolis
International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Philadelphia PA, December 2010.

FlowRoute: Inferring Forwarding Table Updates Using Passive Flow-level Measurements (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere, Lee Breslau, Nick Duffield, Cheng Ee, Alexandre Gerber, Carsten Lund and Subhabrata Sen
ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2010, Melbourne, Australia, November 2010.

A Value-based Framework for Internet Peering Agreements (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere, Pierre Francois and Constantine Dovrolis
International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2010.
Also presented at:
NANOG 49, San Francisco CA, June 2010 (slides)
The 2nd Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE), San Diego CA, Dec 2011 (slides).

Towards Topology Dualism: Improving AS Annotations for Routers (pdf) (slides) (data)
Bradley Huffaker, Amogh Dhamdhere, Marina Fomenkov and kc Claffy
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, April 2010.

Provider and Peer Selection in the Evolving Internet (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere
Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2009.
A part of this thesis was also presented at the CAIDA Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE'09) (slides).

An Agent-based Model of the Internet Ecosystem (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere and Constantine Dovrolis
International Conference on CoMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, January 2009 (invited paper)

Ten Years in the Evolution of the Internet Ecosystem (pdf) (slides) (data) (interactive)
Amogh Dhamdhere and Constantine Dovrolis
ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2008, Vouliagmeni, Greece, October 2008.

Can ISPs be Profitable Without Violating Network Neutrality? (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere and Constantine Dovrolis
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation (Netecon), Seattle, WA, August 2008.

NetDiagnoser: Troubleshooting Network Unreachabilities using End-to-end Probes and Routing Data (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere, Renata Teixeira, Constantine Dovrolis and Christophe Diot
International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) New York, NY, December 2007.
Also presented at:
The DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop on Internet Tomography, Rutgers University, May 2008 (slides).

ISP and Egress Path Selection for Multihomed Networks (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere and Constantine Dovrolis
IEEE INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

Open Issues in Router Buffer Sizing (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere and Constantine Dovrolis
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), January 2006.

Buffer Sizing for Congested Internet Links (pdf) (slides)
Amogh Dhamdhere, Hao Jiang, and Constantine Dovrolis
IEEE INFOCOM. Miami FL, March 2005.
Also presented at:
The Hamilton Institute Workshop on Congestion Control, Ireland, Sept 2005 (Constantine's slides).

Poisson vs Periodic Path Probing (or Does PASTA matter?) (pdf) (slides)
Muhammad Mukarram bin Tariq, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis and Mostafa Ammar
ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Berkeley CA, October 2005.

Bootstrapping in Gnutella: A Measurement Study (pdf) (slides)
Pradnya Karbhari, Himanshu Raj, Amogh Dhamdhere, George Riley, Mostafa Ammar and Ellen Zegura
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), April 2004.

Patents

Indirect Measurement Methodology to Infer Routing Changes Using Statistics of Flow Arrival Processes
Lee Breslau, Amogh Dhamdhere, Nicholas Duffield, Cheng Ee, Alexandre Gerber, Carsten Lund, Subhabrata Sen
United States Patent US8165019, Issued Apr 24, 2012.

System and Method for Determination of Routing Information in a Network
Alexandre Gerber, Lee Breslau, Subhabrata Sen, Nicholas Duffield, Carsten Lund, Cheng Ee, Amogh Dhamdhere
United States Patent US8477772, Issued July 2, 2013.

Professional Service

Grant Proposal Reviewer:
National Science Foundation (Panelist, 2013, 2016, 2018)
Swiss National Research Agency (External reviewer, 2015)
French National Research Agency (External reviewer, 2013)

Technical Program Committee Member:
PAM 2019
CoNEXT 2018, TMA 2018 (TPC co-chair), Netecon 2018, Internet-QoE Workshop 2018, ITC 2018 Area 2 (Network Measurements and Big Data)
IMC 2017, PAM 2017, INFOCOM 2017, Netecon 2017, Sigcomm Reproducibility Workshop 2017, Sigcomm Internet-QoE Workshop 2017
IMC 2016, PAM 2016, NetEcon 2016, INFOCOM 2016, COMSNETS 2016, CoNEXT Student workshop 2016
INFOCOM 2015, COMSNETS 2015, NetEcon+WPIN 2015
INFOCOM 2014, TMA 2014, NetEcon+WPIN 2014
PAM 2013, COMSNETS 2013
PAM 2011

Reviewer:
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Elsevier COMNET, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, IEEE Communications Letters, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Infocom, IEEE IWQoS, ACM Netgames, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecomm, IEEE ICCCN, Passive and Active Measurement Conference.

Miscellaneous

Assorted pieces of work, blog posts etc.

TCP Congestion Signatures (blog entry)
Srikanth Sundaresan and Amogh Dhamdhere

Toward a Congestion Heatmap of the Internet (blog entry)
Amogh Dhamdhere

IPv6: What could be (but isn't yet) (blog entry)
Matthew Luckie and Amogh Dhamdhere

Twelve Years in the Evolution of the Internet Ecosystem (paper) (blog entry)
Amogh Dhamdhere

Model for Internet Evolution Predicts Consolidation in Tier-1 Transit Market (blog entry)
Amogh Dhamdhere

IP-AS mappings (analysis) (blog entry)
Amogh Dhamdhere

Growth Trends in the AS-level Internet (analysis) (blog entry)
Amogh Dhamdhere

Erdös Number

My Erdös Number is 3.

Funding

I gratefully acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation, Cisco Systems, Comcast, and Google Inc.

   PacketLab: A Universal Measurement Endpoint Interface, 2018-2021.

   Integrated Platform for Applied Network Data Analysis (PANDA), 2017-2022.

   Packetlab: A Universal Measurement Endpoint Interface, 2017.

   Investigating the Susceptibility of the Internet Topology to Country-Level Connectivity Disruption and Manipulation, 2017-2020.

   Quality of Experience (QoE) Measurement, 2016.

   A New Techno-Economic Framework for Internet Interconnections, 2016.

   The Economics of Contractual Agreements for Internet Interconnections, 2015-2019

   Modeling IPv6 Adoption: A Measurement-driven Computational Approach, 2015-2018

   Mapping Interconnection in the Internet: Colocation, Connectivity and Congestion, 2014-2017

   Inferring Interdomain Congestion and Carrier-Grade NAT Deployments using Mlab Data, 2014.

   Volume-based Transit Pricing: Which Percentile is Right?, 2012.

   The Economics of Transit and Peering Interconnections in the Internet, 2010-2013.