Nick McKeown – PhD Students | Stanford University

About

I have the great privilege to work with some of the smartest and nicest people imaginable. Below are the PhD students who have graduated from my research group. Quite literally, our research contributions would not have happened without them, including SDN/OpenFlow, a better understanding of buffer sizing, crossbar scheduling, video streaming, programmable switches, congestion control, network memories, low latency NICs, AI fabrics and more. I am very grateful to my PhD students, who were willing to jump off a cliff with me in pursuit of crazy, counter-intuitive and sometimes unpopular ideas.

My Thesis

Scheduling Cells in an Input-Queued Switch (1994)

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PhD Students

Sundararajan Renganathan (2025)

Leveraging Application Knowledge for High-Performance Networks: From Prescheduled Circuit Switching to Runtime Verification

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Serhat Arslan (2024)

Pushing Transport Latency Down Towards Its Physical Limits in Data Centers with Programmable Architectures and Algorithms

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Bruce Spang (2023)

Making Video Traffic a Friendlier Internet Neighbor

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Stephen Ibanez (2021)

Optimizing Remote Procedure Calls in Datacenters Using Hardware/Software Co-Design

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Lisa Yan (2020)

Tools to Understand How Students Learn

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Lavanya Jose (2018)

Proactive Congestion Control

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Yiannis Yiakoumis (2016)

Expressing User Preferences with Network Cookies

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Glen Gibb (2014)

Reconfigurable Hardware for Software Defined Networks

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Te-yuan “TY” Huang (2014)

A Buffer-Based Approach to Video Rate Adaptation

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Peyman Kazemian (2013)

Header Space Analysis

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Nikhil Handigol (2013)

Using Packet Histories to Troubleshoot Networks

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James Hongyi Zeng (2013)

Automatic Data Plane Testing

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Kok “KK” Yap (2013)

Using All Networks Around Us

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David Erickson (2013)

Using Network Knowledge to Improve Workload Performance in Virtualized Data Centers

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Brandon Heller (2013)

Reproducible Network Research with High-Fidelity Emulation

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Jad Naous (2012)

Path-Policy Compliant Networking and a Platform for Heterogeneous IaaS Management

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Saurav Das (2012)

PAC.C: A Unified Control Architecture for Packet and Circuit Network Convergence

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Shang-tse “Da” Chuang (2009)

Providing Performance Guarantees with Crossbar-Based Routers

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Neda Beheshti (2009)

Tiny Buffers for Electronic and Optical Routers

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Nandita Dukkipatti (2008)

Rate Control Protocol (RCP): Congestion Control to Make Flows Complete Quickly

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Martin Casado (2007)

Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks

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Rui Zhang-Shen (2007)

Designing a Predictable Backbone Network Using Valiant Load-Balancing

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Yashar Ganjali (2006)

Buffer Sizing in Internet Routers

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Guido Appenzeller (2005)

Sizing Router Buffers

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Isaac Keslassy (2004)

The Load-Balanced Router

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Sundar Iyer (2003)

Load Balancing and Parallelism for the Internet

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Pablo Molinero-Fernandez (2003)

Circuit Switching in the Internet

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Pankaj Gupta (2000)

Algorithms for Routing Lookups and Packet Classification

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Adisak Mekkittikul (1999)

Scheduling Non-Uniform Traffic in High Speed Packet Switches and Routers

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