Amit Mondal   
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
 
Room 2-211, Ford Engineering Design Center
2133 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208
Phone: +1-847-467-6455
Email: a-mondal AT cs DOT northwestern DOT edu
  Bio
I am a PhD student at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University since August, 2005. I work in the Northwestern Networks Group with Prof. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic. Prior to joining Northwestern, I worked as Software Engineer at Hughes Software Systems, New Delhi, India.

I am graduating in the summer of 2010! Click here for my CV.
  Education
PhD, Computer Science, Northwestern University, Current.
MS, Computer Science, Northwestern University, June, 2007.
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, May, 2004.
  Industry Experience
Contractor, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA (April, 2009 - June, 2009)
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA (June, 2008 - September, 2008)
Research Intern, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA (July, 2007 - September, 2007)
Software Engineer, Hughes Software Systems , Gurgaon, India (August, 2004 - July, 2005)
  Research Interests
I work in Computer Networks. Lately, I have focused on:
  • Diagnosing causes of audio/video conferencing quality impairment in the Internet.
  • Improving performance of real-time multimedia services using overlay networks.
  • Improving response times of interactive applications, such as, short web transfers, network games, ssh, etc.
  • Designing DoS-resilient protocols.
  Talks
  Publications
  • SureCall: Characterzing IP Networks for Real-time Audio/Video Conferencing
    A. Mondal, C. Huang, M. Jain, J. Li, and A. Kuzmanovic
    Under submission.

  • Network Monitoring is People: Understanding End-user Perception of Network Problems
    J. Miller, A. Mondal, R. Potharaju, P Dinda, and A. Kuzmanovic
    Under submission.

  • A. Mondal, C. Huang, J. Li, M. Jain, and A. Kuzmanovic
    A Case for WiFi Relay: Improving VoIP Quality for WiFi Users
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010
    [.pdf  |  .ppt]

  • Supporting Application Network Flows with Multiple QoS Constraints
    A. Mondal, P. Sharma, S. Banerjee, and A. Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of IEEE IWQoS 2009, Charleston, SC, July 2009
    [.pdf  |  .ppt]

  • Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capabilities to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets
    A. Kuzmanovic, A Mondal, S. Floyd, and K.K. Ramakrishnan
    RFC 5562, June 2009
    [ .txt]

  • Upgrading Mice to Elephants: Effects and End-Point Solutions
    A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
    In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear, March 2009
    [ .pdf]

  • Removing Exponential Backoff from TCP
    A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
    In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 38, Number 5, October 2008.
    [ .pdf]

  • A Poisoning-Resilient TCP Stack
    A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2007, Beijing, China, October 2007
    [.pdf  |   .ppt]

  • When TCP Friendliness Becomes Harmful
    A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007
    [.pdf  |  .ppt]

  • Pointing Gesture Detection
    A. Mondal, D. Maji, K. Pal and A. Mukherjee
    In Proceedings of Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI), Hyderabad, India, December 2003.
  Miscellaneous

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