Arvind Narayanan
Ph.inisheD. (Defended on September 24, 2021)
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota

University Email: <first_name> (at) cs (dot) umn (dot) edu  ||  naray111 (at) umn (dot) edu
Skype: arvind__ (two underscores)
LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/arvindn
Google Scholar Profile

Arvind Narayanan is working at AT&T Labs - Research as an Inventive-Scientist. His research interests are broadly in the areas of 5G mobile networking, emerging scalable network architectures (such as NFVs), applied machine learning for systems and content distribution networks (CDNs). Arvind has published papers in several top venues such as SIGCOMM, WWW, IMC, INFOCOM, MobiCom, etc. Arvind's pioneering work on 5G (including the publicly released datasets) has become the de facto baseline to understand and evaluate the evolution of commercial 5G's network performance. His work on DeepCache was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at SIGCOMM Workshop NetAI'18. Arvind completed his M.S. in Computer Science from the same department, and graduated with B.E. in Computer Engineering with highest distinction from the University of Mumbai where he was also awarded the Best Overall Student in his batch (1 out of 120).

Publications

1. An In-Depth Measurement Analysis of 5G mmWave PHY Latency and its Impact on End-to-End Delay
   Rostand A. K. Fezeu, Eman Ramadan, Wei Ye, Bengamin Minneci, Jack Xie, Arvind Narayanan, Ahmad Hassan, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang, Jaideep Chandrashekar, Myungjin Lee
   PAM '23, March, 2023
   
   
2. Vues: Practical Volumetric Video Streaming through Multiview Transcoding
   Yu Liu, Bo Han, Feng Qian, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
   ACM MobiCom '22, Sydney, Australia, October, 2022
   
   
3. Vivisecting Mobility Management in 5G Cellular Networks
   Ahmad Hassan, Arvind Narayanan, Anlan Zhang, Wei Ye, Ruiyang Zhu, Shuowei Jin, Jason Carpenter, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang
   ACM SIGCOMM '22, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August, 2022
   For datasets: visit https://github.com/SIGCOMM22-5GMobility/artifact
   
   
4. A Comparative Measurement Study of Commercial 5G mmWave Deployments
   Arvind Narayanan*, Muhammad Iqbal Rochman*, Ahmad Hassan, Bariq S. Firmansyah, Vanlin Sathya, Monisha Ghosh, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang
   IEEE INFOCOM '22, Virtual Event, May, 2022
   For datasets: visit https://5gbeams.umn.edu
   
   
5. A Variegated Look at 5G in the Wild: Performance, Power, and QoE Implications
   Arvind Narayanan*, Xumiao Zhang*, Ruiyang Zhu, Ahmad Hassan, Shuowei Jin, Xiao Zhu, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Denis Rybkin, Zhengxuan Yang, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang
   ACM SIGCOMM 2021, Virtual Event, USA, August, 2021
   For tools and datasets: visit https://github.com/SIGCOMM21-5G/artifact | Presentation videos: Short version - Long version
   
   
6. Case for 5G-Aware Video Streaming Applications
   Eman Ramadan, Arvind Narayanan, Udhaya Kumar Dayalan, Rostand AK Fezeu, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang
   ACM SIGCOMM '21 Workshops (5G MeMu), Virtual Event, USA, August, 2021
   
   
7. [Whitepaper] A Collaborative Crowdsourced User-Carrier-App Ecosystem to Enable Next Generation Wireless Research
   Zhi-Li Zhang, Feng Qian, Arvind Narayanan, Z. Morley Mao
   NSF Workshop WOMBIR 2021, Virtual Event, USA, January, 2021
   
   
8. Lumos5G: Mapping and Predicting Commercial mmWave 5G Throughput (Utility patent filed by UMN OTC)
   Arvind Narayanan, Eman Ramadan, Rishabh Mehta, Xinyue Hu, Qingxu Liu, Rostand A. K. Fezeu, Udhaya Kumar Dayalan, Saurabh Verma, Peiqi Ji, Tao Li, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang
   ACM IMC '20, Virtual Event, USA, October, 2020
   For datasets and other resources: visit http://lumos5g.umn.edu
   
   
9. [Poster] 5G Tracker - A Crowdsourced Platform to Enable Research Using Commercial 5G Services
   Arvind Narayanan, Eman Ramadan, Jacob Quant, Peiqi Ji, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang
   ACM SIGCOMM '20, Virtual Event, USA, August, 2020
   To view 5Gophers (a 5G coverage and performance mapping initiative): visit https://5gophers.umn.edu
   
   
10. NFV Performance Profiling on Multi-core Servers
    Peng Zheng, Wendi Feng, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
    IFIP Networking 2020, Virtual Event/Paris, France, June, 2020
    
    
11. A First Look at Commercial 5G Performance on Smartphones
    Arvind Narayanan, Eman Ramadan, Jason Carpenter, Qingxu Liu, Yu Liu, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang
    WWW '20, Virtual Event/Taiwan, Taipei, April, 2020
    For datasets and other resources: visit https://5gophers.umn.edu/www20/
    
    
12. Web-Based Perceived Present Control Intervention for Voice Disorders: A Pilot Study
    Viann N. Nguyen-Feng, Patricia A. Frazier, Ali Stockness, Arvind Narayanan, Addie N. Merians, Stephanie Misono
    Journal of Voice, March, 2020
    
    
13. [Poster] Towards a Scalable, Flexible and High Performance NFV Execution Model (Best Poster Runner-Up Award)
    Peng Zheng, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
    ACM CoNEXT '19, Orlando, FL, USA, December, 2019
    
    
14. A Closer Look at NFV Execution Models
    Peng Zheng, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
    APNet '19, Beijing, China, August, 2019
    
    
15. Mining Latent Patterns in geoMobile Data via EPIC
    Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma, Zhi-Li Zhang
    Springer, WWWJ, July, 2019
    
    
16. Making Content Caching Policies 'Smart' using the DeepCache Framework
    Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma, Eman Ramadan, Pariya Babaie, Zhi-Li Zhang
    ACM SIGCOMM '18 CCR, October, 2018
    
    
17. DeepCache: A Deep Learning Based Framework For Content Caching (Best Paper Award)
    Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma, Eman Ramadan, Pariya Babaie, Zhi-Li Zhang
    ACM SIGCOMM'18 Workshops (NetAI), Budapest, Hungary, August, 2018
    
    
18. OpenCDN: An ICN-Based Open Content Distribution System using Distributed Actor Model
    Arvind Narayanan, Eman Ramadan, Zhi-Li Zhang
    IEEE INFOCOM '18 Workshops (IECCO), Honolulu, HI, USA, April, 2018
    
    
19. Multi-Low-Rank Approximation for Traffic Matrices
    Saurabh Verma, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
    International Teletraffic Congress 29 (ITC'29), Genoa, Italy, September, 2017
    
    
20. BIG Cache Abstraction for Cache Networks
    Eman Ramadan, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang, Runhui Li and Gong Zhang
    IEEE ICDCS '17, Atlanta, GA, USA, June, 2017
    
    
21. Most Calls are Local (but Some are Regional): Dissecting Cellular Communication Patterns
    Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma and Zhi-Li Zhang
    IEEE GLOBECOM '16, Washington, DC, December, 2016
    
    
22. Mining Spatial-Temporal geoMobile Data via Feature Distributional Similarity Graph
    Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma and Zhi-Li Zhang
    ACM MobiSys '16 Workshops (MobiData), Singapore, June, 2016
    
    
23. Position Estimation of Robotic Mobile Nodes in Wireless Testbed using GENI
    A. Abdelhadi, F. Rechia, A. Narayanan, T. Teixeira, R. Lent, D. Benhaddou, H. Lee, T. Clancy
    IEEE SysCon '16, Orlando, FL, 2016
    
    
24. [Poster] Voice, Distress, and Perceived Control: Technology-Based Intervention
    S. Misono, A. Merians, C.B. Peterson, A. Narayanan, K.O. Lim, P.A. Frazier
    ISRII 8th Scientific Meeting, Seattle, WA, April, 2016
    
    
25. CONIA: Content (Provider)-Oriented, Namespace-Independent Architecture for Multimedia Information Delivery
    Eman Ramadan, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
    IEEE ICME '15 Workshops (MuSIC), Torino, Italy, July, 2015
    

Work Experience

1. PhD Intern, AI & Cognitive Systems, Cisco, San Jose, CA, July 2017 - May 2018
2. Research Intern, IP Lab, FutureWei Technologies (Huawei Research Center), Santa Clara, CA, October 2016 - January 2017
3. Research Intern, Future Network Theory Lab, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong, August 2016 - September 2016
4. Engineering Intern, HAMR Team, Seagate Technologies, Bloomington, MN, May 2013 - August 2013
5. Intern, Center of Excellence, WIPRO, Bangalore, India, August 2011
   
6. Freelancer, Desi Hosting, Mumbai, India, 2005 - 2012
   

Education

1. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2021
2. Masters of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2014
3. Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Engineering, University of Mumbai, 2011

Awards

• Won getdnsapi Challenge at TNW Europe, Amsterdam, April 2014
• 1st Prize (INR 7000), Innovation Cube @ CResCEndo, Mumbai, October 2011
• 3rd place (INR 10000), National Young IT Professional Award R6, Computer Society of India (CSI), August 2011
• Best Overall Student Award, BE Computer Engineering 2011 Batch, Mumbai, India, August 2011
• 1st Prize (INR 8000) Project Competition, APOGEE'11, BITS Pilani, March 2011
• 1st Prize, Project Demo & Poster Competition, ICTSM'11, Mumbai, February 2011

Travel Grants & Scholarships

1. USD 850 by The Linux Foundation to attend ONAP Academic Summit 2018, New York City
2. USD 250 to attend GENI Regional Workshop 2015, Chicago
3. ~USD 2100 to attend FGRE 2015 Research Summit, Ghent, Belgium
4. ~USD 2000 by Verisign Labs to participate in the Hackathon @ TNW Europe'14, Amsterdam
5. USD 1000 to attend IEEE SPS IoT/M2M Summer School, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
6. USD 450 to attend GENI Summer Camp, Iowa State University
7. INR 50000 scholarship from Tatachem Golden Jubilee Foundation to travel abroad for higher education.

Press & Media

• News article titled "Graduate Student Narayanan and team win getdnsapi Challenge" published on the Computer Science & Engineering departmental website, University of Minnesota, May 2014
• Wrote an article "Winds of Change" in Education Times, The Times of India, India, June 2011
• An article about my under-grad. project titled "VIOLA! VIT's Young Guns Make A Mark" published in DNA, India, March 2011
• Front page article about my under-grad. project titled "City college students create their own social network" published in Hindustan Times, India, January 2011
• An article about my under-grad. project titled "VIT Students engineer portal" published in DNA, India, January 2011

Hobbies

Skiing, Photography, Travel