Publications | NetSys

2025

[COMSNETS 2025] Investigating WebRTC BBR as an alternative to GCC for live video streaming

Rebecca Drucker, Anshul Gandhi, Aruna Balasubramanian

COMSNETS

2024

[SenSys 2024] Unvoiced: Designing an LLM-assisted Unvoiced User Interface using Earables

Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain

SenSys pdf
[COMSNETS 2024] BBR vs. BBRv2: A Performance Evaluation

Rebecca Drucker, Gauri Baraskar, Anshul Gandhi, Aruna Balasubramanian

COMSNETS
[CHI 2024] Hand Gesture Recognition for Blind Users by Tracking 3D Gesture Trajectory

Prerna Khanna, IV Ramakirshnan, Shubham Jain, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian

CHI pdf

2023

[MobiCom 2023] AccessWear: Making Smartphone Applications Accessible to Blind Users

Prerna Khanna, Shirin Feiz, Jian Xu, IV Ramakirshnan, Shubham Jain, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian

MobiCom pdf
[WWW '23 2023] Is IPFS Ready for Decentralized Video Streaming?

Zhengyu Wu, Cheng Yang, Santiago Vargas, Aruna Balasubramanian

WWW '23

2022

[ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare 2022] SpiroMask: Measuring Lung Function Using Consumer-Grade Masks

Rishiraj Adhikary, Dhruvi Lodhavia, Chris Francis, Rohit Patil, Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Nipun Batra, Joe Breda, Jacob Peplinski, Shwetak Patel

ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare pdf
[UbiComp 2022] MuteIt: Jaw Motion Based Unvoiced Command Recognition Using Earable

Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain

UbiComp pdf
[UbiComp 2022] MobiVQA: Efficient On-Device Visual Question Answering

Qingqing Cao, Prerna Khanna, Nicholas Lane, Balasubramanian Aruna

UbiComp pdf
[MobiSys Demo 2022] Leveraging Earables for Unvoiced Command Recognition

Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain

MobiSys Demo pdf , poster
[ML for Systems Workshop NeurIPS 2022] Predicting Network Buffer Capacity for BBR Fairness

Ibrahim Akgun, Santiago Vargas, Michael Arkhangelskiy, Andrew Burford, Michael McNeill, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi, Erez Zadok

ML for Systems Workshop NeurIPS
[IMC 2022] Are Mobiles Ready for BBR?

Santiago Vargas, Gautham Gunapati, Anshul Gandhi, Aruna Balasubramanian

IMC pdf , slides
[NSDI 2022] Swift: Adaptive Video Streaming with Layered Neural Codecs

Mallesham Dasari, Kumara Kahapatiya, Dimitris Samaras, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir Das

NSDI

2021

[WWW 2021] BBR Bufferbloat in DASH Video

Santiago Vargas, Rebecca Drucker, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi

WWW pdf , slides
[HotMobile 2021] Jawsense: recognizing unvoiced sound using a low-cost ear-worn system

Prerna Khanna, Tanmay Srivastava, Shijia Pan, Shubham Jain, Phuc Nguyen

HotMobile pdf , slides
[EMNLP Demo 2021] IrEne-viz: Visualizing Energy Consumption of Transformer Models

Yash Lal, Reetu Singh, Harsh Trivedi, Qingqing Cao, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian

EMNLP Demo pdf
[ACL 2021] IrEne: Interpretable Energy Prediction for Transformers

Qingqing Cao, Yash Lal, Harsh Trivedi, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian

ACL pdf
[SustaiNLP 2021] Towards Accurate and Reliable Energy Measurement of NLP Models

Qingqing Cao, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian

SustaiNLP pdf
[WWW 2021] Browselite: A Private Data-Saving Solution for the Web

Conor Kelton, Matteo Varvello, Andrius Aucinas, Benjamin Livshits

WWW pdf , slides

2020

[EICS 2020] WProfX: A Fine-grained Visualization Tool for Web Page Loads

Javad Nejati, Aruna Balasubramanian

EICS pdf
[MobileHCI 2020] A Survey of Patterns for Adapting Smartphone App UIs to Smart Watches

Zhilan Zhou, Jian Xu, Don Porter, Aruna Balasubramanian

MobileHCI
[MobileHCI 2020] Modeling User-Centered Page Load Time for Smartphones

Conor Kelton, Jihoon Ryoo, Aruna Balasubramanian, Xiaojun Bi, Samir Das

MobileHCI pdf
[ACL 2020] Deformer: Decomposing Pre-trained Transformers for Faster Question Answering

Qingqing Cao, Harsh Trivedi, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian

ACL pdf
[TMA 2020] Need for Mobile Speed: A Historical Analysis of Mobile Web Performance

Javad Nejati, Meng Luo, Nick Nikiforakis, Aruna Balasubramanian

TMA pdf , slides
[INFOCOM 2020] PARSEC: Streaming 360 Degree Videos Using Super-Resolution

Mallesham Dasari, Arani Bhattacharya, Santiago Vargas, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir Das

INFOCOM pdf
[MADWEB 2020] Browser-Based Deep Behavioral Detection of WebCryptomining with CoinSpy

Conor Kelton, Aruna Balasubramanian, Ramya Raghavendra, Mudhakar Srivatsa

MADWEB pdf

2019

[ASSETS 2019] DarkReader: Bridging the Gap Between Perception and Reality of Power Consumption in Smartphones for Blind Users [Best Paper Nominee]

Jian Xu, Syed Billah, Roy Shilkrot, Aruna Balasubramanian

ASSETS pdf , slides , BibTeX
[Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications 2019] Reading Detection in Real-time

Conor Kelton, Zijun Wei, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir Das, Dimitris Samaras, Gregory Zelinsky

Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications pdf , poster
[Internet Measurement Conference 2019] Characterizing JSON Traffic Patterns on a CDN

Santiago Vargas, Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Aruna Balasubramanian

Internet Measurement Conference pdf , slides , BibTeX
[Internet Measurement Conference 2019] When to use and when not to use BBR: An empirical analysis and evaluation study

Yi Cao, Arpit Jain, Kriti Sharma, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi

Internet Measurement Conference pdf , slides , BibTeX
[Internet Measurement Conference 2019] ECON: Modeling the network to improve application performance

Yi Cao, Javad Nejati, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi

Internet Measurement Conference pdf , slides , BibTeX
[The 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services 2019] DeQA: On-Device Question Answering

Qingqing Cao, Noah Weber, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian

The 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services pdf , slides , BibTeX

2018

[COMSNETS 2018] A Highly Resilient and Scalable Broker architecture for IoT applications

Souranil Sen, Aruna Balasubramanian

COMSNETS pdf
[Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2018] Ultra-Low-Power Mode for Screenless Mobile Interaction

Jian Xu, Suwen Zhu, Aruna Balasubramanian, Xiaojun Bi, Roy Shilkrot

Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology pdf , slides , BibTeX
[Internet Measurement Conference 2018] Impact of Device Performance on Mobile Internet QoE

Mallesham Dasari, Santiago Vargas, Arani Bhattacharya, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir Das

Internet Measurement Conference pdf , slides , BibTeX

2017

[Hotnets 2017] Opportunities and Challenges of Ad-based Measurements from the Edge of the Network

Patricia Callejo, Conor Kelton, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Rubén Cuevas, Oliver Gasser, Christian Kreibich, Florian Wohlfart, Ángel Cuevas

Hotnets pdf
[MobiCom 2017] UIWear: Easily Adapting User Interfaces forWearable Devices (Demo)

Jian Xu, Qingqing Cao, Aruna Balasubramanian, Donald Porter

MobiCom pdf , BibTeX
[MobiCom 2017] UIWear: Easily Adapting User Interfaces forWearable Devices

Jian Xu, Qingqing Cao, Aditya Prakash, Aruna Balasubramanian, Donald Porter

MobiCom pdf , slides , BibTeX
[SIGCOMM 2017] Rethinking TCP Throughput and Latency Modeling

Yi Cao, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi

SIGCOMM pdf , BibTeX
[Sigmetrics 2017] Deconstructing the Energy Consumption of the Mobile Page Load

Yi Cao, Javad Nejati, Muhammad Wajahat, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi

Sigmetrics pdf , slides , BibTeX
[1st International Workshop on Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning (EMDL) 2017] MobiRNN: Efficient Recurrent Neural Network Execution on Mobile GPU

Qingqing Cao, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian

1st International Workshop on Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning (EMDL) pdf , slides , BibTeX
[USENIX Network Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2017] Improving User Perceived Page Load Time Using Gaze

Conor Kelton, Jihoon Ryoo, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir Das

USENIX Network Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) pdf , slides
[HotMobile 2017] PrIA: A Private Intelligent Assistant

Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Supriyo Chakraborthy, Shashank Jain, Vivek Tiwari

HotMobile pdf

2016

[WWW 2016] An In-Depth Study of Mobile Browser Performance

Javad Nejati, Aruna Balasubramanian

WWW pdf
[Sigmetrics 2016] Analyzing the Power Consumption of the Mobile Page Load

Yi Cao, Javad Nejati, Pavan Maguluri, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi

Sigmetrics pdf , BibTeX

2015

[ACM Ubicomp 2015] Enhancing Mobile Apps to Use Sensor Hubs Without Programmer Effort (Best Paper Award)

Haichen Shen, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anthony LaMarca, David Wetherall

ACM Ubicomp pdf , slides