Recent Publications
For older publications see Google Scholar. Most talk slides are uploaded in the lab page
Is IPFS Ready for Video Streaming?
Zhengyu Wu*, Cheng Hao Yang*, Santiago Vargas and Aruna Balasubramanian
The Web Conference 2023
AccessWear: Making Smartphone Applications Accessible to Blind Users
Prerna Khanna, Shirin Feiz, Jian Xu, IV Ramakrishnan, Shubham Jain, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian
MobiCom 2023 (conditionally accepted)
Are Mobiles Ready for BBR?
Santiago Vargas, Gautham Gunapati, Anshul Gandhi, Aruna Balasubramanian
IMC 2022 [pdf]
MobiVQA: Efficient On-Device Visual Question Answering
Qingqing Cao, Prerna Khanna, Nicholas Lane, and Aruna Balasubramanian
IMWUT/UbiComp 2022 [pdf]
Swift: Adaptive Video Streaming with Layered Neural Codecs
Mallesham Dasari, Kumara Kahapatiya,Samir Das, Aruna Balasubramanian, and Dimitris Samaras
NSDI 2022 [pdf]
Sensor Virtualization for Efficient Sharing of Mobile and Wearable Sensors
Jian Xu, Arani Bhattacharya, Aruna Balasubramanian, Don Porter
AIChallengeIoT 2021 (Co-located with Sensys) [pdf]
Are Mobile DNN Accelerators Accelerating DNNs?
Qingqing Cao, Alexandru Eugen Irimiea, Mohamed Abdelfattah, Aruna Balasubramanian and Nicholas D. Lane.
Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning Worshop 2021 (co-located with MobiSys) [pdf]
IrEne-viz: Visualizing Energy Consumption of Transformer Models
Yash Kumar Lal, Reetu Singh, Harsh Trivedi, Qingqing Cao, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian.
EMNLP (demo) 2021 [pdf] [Demo]
IrEne: Interpretable Energy Prediction for Transformers
Qingqing Cao, Yash Kumar Lal, Harsh Trivedi, Aruna Balasubramanian and Niranjan Balasubramanian
ACL 2021 [pdf] [slides]
BBR Bufferbloat in DASH Video
Santiago Vargas, Rebecca Drucker, Aiswarya Renganathan, Anshul Gandhi, and Aruna Balasubramanian
WWW (The Web Conference) 2021 [pdf] [video]
Towards Accurate and Reliable Energy Measurement of NLP Models
Qingqing Cao, Aruna Balasubramanian and Niranjan Balasubramanian
SustaiNLP (Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing) 2020 (colocated with EMNLP) [pdf]
Modeling User-Centered Page Load Time for Smartphones
Conor Kelton, Jihoon Ryoo, Samir R. Das, and Aruna Balasubramanian
MobileHCI (Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services) 2020 [pdf]
A Survey of Patterns for Adapting Smartphone App UIs to Smart Watches
Zhilan Zhou, Jian Xu, Aruna Balasubramanian, and Don Porter
MobileHCI (Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services) 2020 [pdf]
Javad Nejati, Meng Luo, Nick Nickiforakis, and Aruna Balasubramanian TMA (Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis) 2020 [pdf]
Decomposing Pre-trained Transformers for Faster Question Answering
Qingqing Cao, Harsh Trivedi, Aruna Balasubramanian and Niranjan Balasubramanian
ACL (Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics) 2020 [pdf]
Towards Predicting Reading Comprehension From Gaze Behavior
Seoyoung Ahn, Conor Kelton, Aruna Balasubramanian, Gregory Zelinsky
ETRA (Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications) 2020 [pdf]
Streaming 360 degree Videos using Super-resolution
Mallesham Dasari, Arani Bhattacharya, Santiago Vargas, Pranjul Sahu, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir Das
INFOCOM 2020 [pdf]
WProfX: A fine-grained visualization tool for Web Page Loads
Javad Nejati and Aruna Balasubramanian
EICS (Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems) 2020 [pdf]
DarkReader: Bridging the Gap Between Perception and Reality of Power Consumption in Smartphones for Blind Users
Jian Xu, Syed Masum Billah, Roy Shilkrot, Aruna Balasubramanian
ASSETS 2019 (ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility) [pdf]
Best Paper Nominee
Characterizing JSON Traffic Patterns on a CDN
Santiago Vargas, Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Aruna Balasubramanian
IMC 2019 [pdf]
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
IMC 2019 [pdf]
ECON: Modeling the network to improve application performance
Yi Cao, Javad Nejati, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi
IMC 2019 [pdf]
DeQA: On-Device Question Answering
Qingqing Cao, Noah Weber, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian
MobiSys 2019 [pdf]
Reading Detection in Real-time
Conor Kelton, Zijun Wei, Seoyoung Ahn, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir Das, Dimitris Samaras, Greg Zelinsky
Symposium on Eye Tracking and Applications (ETRA) 2019 [pdf]
Mallesham Dasari, Santiago Vargas, Arani Bhattacharya, Aruna Balasuramanian, Samir R Das, and Michael Ferdman IMC 2018 [pdf]
Ultra-Low-Power Mode for Screenless Mobile Interaction
Jian Xu, Suwen Zhu, Aruna Balasubramanian, Xiaojun Bi, and Roy Shilkrot
UIST 2018 [pdf]
UIWear: Easily Adapting User Interfaces for Wearable Devices
Jian Xu (co-primary), Qingqing Cao (co-primary), Aditya Prakash, Aruna Balasubramanian, and Don Porter
MobiCom 2017 [pdf] [3-min Video]
PrIA: A Private Intelligent Assistant
Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Supriyo Chakraborthy, Shashank Jain, and Vivek Tiwari
HotMobile 2017 [pdf]
Deconstructing the Energy Consumption of the Mobile Page Load
Yi Cao, Javad Nejati, Muhammad Wajahat, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi
Sigmetrics 2017 [pdf]
Improving User Perceived Page Load Time Using Gaze
Conor Kelton (Co-primary), Jihoon Ryoo (Co-primary), Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir Das
NSDI 2017 [pdf].
An In-Depth Study of Mobile Browser Performance.
Javad Nejati and Aruna Balasubramanian.
WWW, April 2016.[pdf]
Enhancing Mobile Apps to Use Sensor Hubs Without Programmer Effort.
Haichen Shen, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anthony LaMarca, David Wetherall.
ACM UbiComp, September 2015.[pdf][Presentation]
Best paper award, Gaetano Borriello best student paper award
How Speedy is SPDY?.
Xiao Sophia Wang, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall.
Usenix NSDI, April 2014. [pdf]
Demystifying Page Load Performance with WProf.
Xiao Sophia Wang, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall.
Usenix NSDI, April 2013. [pdf] [bibtex][Presentation]
FindAll: A Local Search Engine for Mobile Phones.
A. Balasubramanian, N. Balasubramanian, S. J. Huston, D. Metzler, D. J. Wetherall.
ACM CoNext, December, 2012. [pdf] [bibtex][Presentation]
R3: Robust Replication Routing in Wireless Networks with Diverse Connectivity Characteristics
Xiaozheng Tie, Arun Venkataramani and Aruna Balasubramanian.
ACM MobiCom, September 2011. [pdf]
Augmenting Mobile 3G Using WiFi: Measurement, Design, and Implementation.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani.
ACM MobiSys, June 2010. [pdf] [Presentation] [bibtex]
MAUI: Making Smartphones Last Longer with Code offload.
Eduardo Cuervo, Aruna Balasubramanian, Dae-ki Cho, Alec Wolman, Stefan Saroiu, Ranveer Chandra, Paramvir Bahl.
ACM MobiSys, June 2010. [pdf] [bibtex].
Energy Consumption in Mobile Phones: A Measurement Study and Implications for Network Applications.
Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arun Venkataramani.
ACM/USENIX IMC, November 2009. [pdf] [bibtex] [Technical Report] [Presentation]
Enhancing Interactive Web Applications in Hybrid Networks.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani.
ACM MobiCom, September 2008. [pdf] [bibtex] [Presentation]
ViFi: Interactive WiFi Connectivity For Moving Vehicles.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, Brian Levine, John Zahorjan.
ACM SIGCOMM, August 2008. [pdf] [Technical report] [bibtex] [Presentation]
DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani.
ACM SIGCOMM, August 2007. [pdf] [Technical Report] [bibtex] [Presentation]