Jay
Aikat
Research
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brooks
Bldg. rm. 314, CB# 3175,
Chapel
Hill, NC 27599-3175, U. S. A.
( (919) 962-1878 :
aikat_at_cs_dot_unc_dot_edu
Research Interests
Experimental methods and models in
networking research and education; measurement and modeling of Internet
traffic,
Internet traffic generation, cyber
security, wireless networks, congestion control and active queue management.
Research (recent)
·
J. Aikat and K. Jeffay, Evolution of Networking Research into a Science (Abstract), COMBINE:
the US Department of Energy (DoE) exploratory
Workshop on Computational Modeling of Big Networks, Washington DC, September 11-12, 2012.
·
J.
Aikat, S. Hasan, K. Jeffay, and F. D. Smith, Towards Traffic Benchmarks for
Empirical Networking Research: The Role of Connection Structure in Traffic
Workload Modeling, IEEE
MASCOTS (Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication
Systems), Washington DC, August 2012.
·
J. Aikat and K. Jeffay, Introduction to Network Experiments using the GENI CyberInfrastructure (Tutorial),
Proc. of the ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance Joint International Conference on
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, London, UK, June 2012.
·
J.
Aikat, S. Hasan, K. Jeffay, and F. D. Smith, Discrete-Approximation of Measured Round Trip Time Distributions: A Model for Network Emulation,
GENI Research and Education Experiment Workshop 2012 (GREE12), Los Angeles, CA,
March 2012.
·
J.
Aikat, K. Jeffay, and
F. D. Smith, Experimental Methods for Networking Research and Practice,
SIGCOMM 2011 Education Workshop, Toronto, Canada, August 2011.
·
J.
Aikat, K. Jeffay, and
F. D. Smith, Generating Realistic Synthetic TCP Application Workloads,
GENI Experimenters Workshop, Princeton, New Jersey, June 2010.
·
Book:
in preparation, under contract: J. Aikat, K. Jeffay, and F. D. Smith, The
Effects of Traffic Structure on Application and Network Performance,
Springer Publishing, New York, NY, 2012.
Posters (recent) (*supervised
/ co-supervised undergraduate student)
·
R. Crabb*, J. Aikat,
and K. Jeffay, Modeling
UDP Traffic, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC),
Baltimore, Maryland, October 2012.
·
W. Yau*, J. Aikat, and
K. Jeffay, Variability
of TCP Round-trip Times (RTTs) Over the Years, Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), Baltimore, Maryland, October 2012.
·
S. Zolayvar*, J. Aikat,
and K. Jeffay, Characterizing
Modern Web Traffic using TCP Headers, Grace Hopper Celebration of
Women in Computing (GHC), Baltimore, Maryland, October 2012.
·
J.
Aikat, S. Hasan, K.
Jeffay, and F. D. Smith, Critical Choices in Measurement-Driven Traffic
Generation for Empirical Networking Research, UNC-CH University Research
Day (7th Annual Research Symposium), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 31,
2011.
·
J.
Aikat, K. Jeffay, and
F. D. Smith, Modeling Internet Traffic for Empirical Networking Research,
1st Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture and Postdoctoral Research Poster
Forum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 8, 2011.
Older significant publications
- L. Le, J. Aikat, K.
Jeffay, and F. D. Smith, The Effects of Active Queue Management and Explicit Congestion
Notification on Web Performance, IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, Vol 15 No. 6, December 2007,
pp. 1217-1230. PDF
- L. Le, J. Aikat, K.
Jeffay, and F. D. Smith, Differential
Congestion Notification: Taming the Elephants, 12th IEEE
International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany,
October 2004, pp. 118-128. PDF
- J.
Aikat, J. Kaur, F. D. Smith, and K. Jeffay, Variability in TCP Roundtrip Times,
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Miami, Florida, October
2003, pp. 279-284. PDF
- L. Le, J. Aikat, K.
Jeffay, and F. D. Smith, The
Effects of Active Queue Management on Web Performance, (best student paper award)
in ACM SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2003, pp. 265-276. PDF
Teaching
- COMP 590-095 (co-taught 1/3 of course), Introduction
to Distributed Systems (Spring 2012), Department of Computer Science, UNC-CH.
- COMP 431, Internet Services and Protocols
(Spring 2011 – 44 students), Department of
Computer Science, UNC-CH – course grader and guest lecturer.
- INLS 261
(50): Tools for Information Literacy, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Fall 1999, Summer 2000. Tools and Concepts for Information
Literacy, including microcomputer software use and maintenance,
applications, and networked information systems.
- EE 303:
Microprocessor applications course, Ohio University, Sept. 1994 - Jun 1995
(three quarters).
- Taught
introductory computer course for incoming freshman, Center for Excellence,
Ohio University, Summer 1994
Short Bio
- I am a Research Assistant Professor in
the Department of Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- I
completed my PhD. in Computer
Science in the area of Computer Networking under the supervision of my
advisor, Prof.
Kevin Jeffay and also worked with Prof.
F. Donelson Smith. My dissertation is titled “An Investigation of the Effects of
Application Workload Modeling and Path Characteristics on Network
Performance”.
- I earned
my B.S in Electrical and
Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra, India, and my M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio University
in Athens, Ohio. I also have a M.S.
in Computer Science from UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Prior to
this, I worked for eight years in leadership roles in Information
Technology, mostly in academia -- my last position in IT was Director of IT and Networking in
the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
I decided to expand my horizons and go back to school to get a PhD J