Ashkan Nikravesh

I earned my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2018. I worked with Professor Z. Morley Mao. My primary research interest is computer networking and I worked on mobile computing and internet measurement during my PhD.

 

Education

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Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2012-2018

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,  Iran.
2007-2012

Research Experiences


Research Intern under supervision of Dr. Eric Osterweil
Verisign Labs, Reston, VA
Worked on designing and implementing a real-time DNS anomaly detection system.
MPI-SWS
Research Intern under supervision of Dr. Krishna Gummadi
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Saarbrücken, Germany
Studied the impact of offline boundaries on the user interactions and behaviour on Online Social Networks.

Publications

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  • MP-H2: A Client-only Multipath Solution for HTTP/2
    Ashkan Nikravesh, Yihua Guo, Xiao Zhu, Feng Qian, and Z. Morley Mao.
    In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019     [pdf][venue]
  • Understanding the Networking Performance of Wear OS
    Xiao Zhu, Yihua Ethan Guo, Ashkan Nikravesh, Feng Qian, and Z. Morley Mao.
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance (SIGMETRICS), Phoenix, AZ, June 2019     [pdf][venue]
  • PerfProbe: A Systematic, Cross-Layer Performance Diagnosis Framework for Mobile Platforms
    David Ke Hong, Ashkan Nikravesh, Z. Morley Mao, Mahesh Ketkar, and Michael Kishinevsky.
    In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft), Montréal, May 2019     [pdf][venue]
  • Leveraging Context-Triggered Measurements to Characterize LTE Handover Performance
    Shichang Xu, Ashkan Nikravesh, and Z. Morley Mao.
    In Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Puerto Varas, March 2019     [pdf][venue]
  • QoE Inference and Improvement Without End-Host Control
    Ashkan Nikravesh, Qi Alfred Chen, Scott Haseley, Xiao Zhu, Geoffrey Challen, and Z. Morley Mao.
    In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), Bellevue, WA, October 2018     [pdf][venue]
  • Accelerating Multipath Transport Through Balanced Subflow Completion
    Yihua Guo, Ashkan Nikravesh, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, and Subhabrata Sen.
    In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Snowbird, UT, October 2017     [pdf]
    Acceptance rate: 19% (35/186)
  • An In-depth Understanding of Multipath TCP on Mobile Devices: Measurement and System Design
    Ashkan Nikravesh, Yihua Guo, Feng Qian, Z. Morley Mao, and Subhabrata Sen.
    In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), New York, October 2016     [pdf]
    Acceptance rate: 14% (32/226)
  • QoE Inference Without Application Control
    Ashkan Nikravesh, David Ke Hong, Qi Alfred Chen, Harsha V. Madhyastha, and
    Z. Morley Mao.
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks (Internet-QoE), Florianópolis, August 2016     [pdf][bib]
  • Revisiting Network Energy Efficiency of Mobile Apps: Performance in the Wild
    Sanae Rosen, Ashkan Nikravesh, Yihua Guo, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, and Subhabrata Sen.
    In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement (IMC), Tokyo, October 2015     [pdf][bib]
  • Mobilyzer: An Open Platform for Controllable Mobile Network Measurements
    Ashkan Nikravesh, Hongyi Yao, Shichang Xu, David Choffnes, Z. Morley Mao.
    In Proceedings of the 13th annual international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys), Florence, May 2015     [pdf][bib]
    Acceptance rate: 13% (29/219)
  • Mobile Network Performance from User Devices: A Longitudinal, Multidimensional Analysis
    Ashkan Nikravesh, David R. Choffnes, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Z. Morley Mao, Matt Welsh.
    In Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Los Angeles, CA, March 2014     [pdf][bib][slides]
  • Geographic Dissection of the Twitter Network
    Juhi Kulshrestha, Farshad Kooti, Ashkan Nikravesh, Krishna P. Gummadi.
    In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Dublin, June 2012 [pdf][bib]

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