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 only) (*supervised
/ co-supervised student)
·
D.
O’Neill*, J.
Aikat, K. Jeffay, and F. D. Smith, Experiment Replication using ProtoGENI nodes,
GENI Research and Educational Experiment Workshop 2013 (GREE13), Salt Lake
City, Utah, March 2013.
·
J. Aikat and K. Jeffay,
Advanced Network Experiments (two
hours tutorial), GENI Engineering Conference (GEC16), Salt Lake City, Utah,
March 20, 2013.
·
J. Aikat, Mark Berman, Niky
Riga, and K. Jeffay, Using the GENI Networking Testbed (three
hours tutorial), Proc. of the ACM SIGCSE, Special Interest Group for Computer
Science Education, Denver, Colorado, March 6, 2013.
·
Book:
J. Aikat, K. Jeffay,
and F. D. Smith, The
Effects of Traffic Structure on Application and Network Performance, Springer Publishing, New York, NY, 2012.
·
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.
Posters (recent only)
(*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.
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
Funding (current only)
·
GENI Tutorial
at ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group
on Computer Science Education), J. Aikat (PI),
K. Jeffay, National Science Foundation, CISE:CNS:NETS grant number 1332340, March 2013, 1 year, $13,388.
·
Evolution of the HTTP
protocol and web traffic, J. Aikat,
K. Jeffay, University Research Council (URC) small grant
program, December 2012, 2 years, $2,000. (Role: PI)
·
CC-NIE
Network Infrastructure: Enabling data-driven research, J. Aikat, Tyson Hedrick, Corbin Jones, Jonathan
Lees, Cass Miller, National Science Foundation (OCI Office of CyberInfrastructure CC-NIE Program), grant number 1245783,
December 2012, 2 years, $499,529. (Role: PI)
·
Evolution of the HTTP protocol and web traffic, J. Aikat,
K. Jeffay, University Research Council (URC) small grant
program, December 2012, 2 years, $2,000. (Role: PI)
·
Development
of Education and Training Resources for GENI Experimenters, K. Jeffay,
National Science Foundation (GENI Project: Raytheon Corporation), October 2011,
3 years, $291,714. (Role: Senior Personnel)
Teaching
- COMP 631: Computer Networks
(Spring 2013), Department of Computer Science, UNC-CH.
- COMP 590-095 (co-taught part of the
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
Jay Aikat
is a Research Assistant Professor in
the Department of Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill since December 2011. She completed her PhD. in Computer Science in the area of Computer Networking under
the supervision of her advisor, Prof.
Kevin Jeffay. She was also supervised
by Prof. F.
Donelson Smith. Her dissertation is titled “An Investigation of the Effects of
Application Workload Modeling and Path Characteristics on Network Performance”.
Dr.
Aikat earned her B.S
in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of
Technology in Mesra, India, and her M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She also has a M.S. in Computer Science from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Prior
to this, she worked for eight years in leadership roles in Information
Technology, mostly in academia -- her last position in IT was Director of IT and Networking in the
School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. That is when she
decided to expand her horizons and go back to school to get a Ph.D.