Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

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2026

• D. Narasimha, S. Nomula, S. Shakkottai, P. Parag. The power of two in large service-marketplaces. IEEE Transactions on Networking 34(6):4798--4809, Dec 2026 ieeexplore.appendix.paper
• A. Letsiou, J. P. Champati, A. J. Ganesh, J. R. Gross, P. Parag. Hierarchical inference with a finite offload queue. European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Lille, France, Oct 05-07, 2026 paper.slides
• P. Charreaux, P. Parag, A. Reiffers-Masson, F. Sailhan. Securing services --- age-based redeployment using weakly coupled Markov decision processes. IFAC World Congress Busan, Korea, Aug 23-28, 2026 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• X. Chen, P. Parag, R. Bhagat, Z. Liu, S. E. Rouayheb. Random walk learning and the Pac-Man attack. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Guangzhou, China, Jun 28, 2026 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• F. Ye, Z. Liu, S. E. Rouayheb. Perfect privacy and strong stationary times for Markovian sources. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Guangzhou, China, Jun 28, 2026 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• S. Nomula, P. Parag, A. J. Ganesh, J. P. Champati. Hierarchical inference with an offload queue. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Tokyo, Japan, May 18-21, 2026 ieeexplore.paper.slides

2025

• T. Sun, T. He, B. Ji, P. Parag. Optimizing resource allocation for geographically-distributed inference by large language models. International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (IFIP WG 7.3 Peformance) Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov 11-13, 2025 ifip.paper.slides
• T. Sun, T. He, B. Ji, P. Parag. Optimizing resource allocation for geographically-distributed inference by large language models. Performance Evaluation 170, Nov 2025 elsevier.paper
• D. Narasimha, S. Nomula, S. Shakkottai, P. Parag. The power of two in large service-marketplaces. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) London, UK, May 19-22, 2025 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• M. Mohanty, G. Bolar, P. Patil, U. M. Devi, F. George, P. Moogi, P. Parag. Deferred prefill for throughput maximization in LLM inference. Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys) Rotterdam, Netherlands, Mar 31, 2025 acm.paper.slides.video

2024

• A. Priya, R. Choudhury, S. Patni, H. Sharma, M. Mohanty, K. Narayanam, U. M. Devi, P. Moogi, P. Patil, P. Parag. Energy-minimizing workload splitting and frequency selection for guaranteed performance over heterogeneous cores. ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy) June 2024 acm.paper.slides
• M. Mohanty, G. Gautam, V. Aggarwal, P. Parag. Analysis of fork-join scheduling on heterogeneous parallel servers. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 32(6):4798--4809, Dec 2024 ieeexplore.appendix.paper

2023

• A. Krishnan K. S., C. K. Singh, S. T. Maguluri, P. Parag. Optimal pricing in a single server system. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems 8(4):1--32, Dec 2023 acm.paper
• R. Jinan, A. K. Badita, T. P. Bodas, P. Parag. Load balancing policies without feedback using timed replicas. Performance Evaluation 162, Nov 2023 elsevier.paper
• A. Krishnan K. S., C. K. Singh, S. T. Maguluri, P. Parag. Optimal pricing in a single server system. International Teletraffic Congress -- Networked Systems and Services Turin, Oct 2023 itc.paper.slides
• R. Jinan, G. Gautam, V. Aggarwal. Asymptotic analysis of probabilistic scheduling for erasure-coded heterogeneous systems. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 50(4):8--10, Mar 2023 acm.paper

2022

• R. Jinan, A. K. Badita, P. K. Sarvepalli, P. Parag. Latency optimal storage and scheduling of replicated fragments for memory constrained servers. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 68(6):4135--4155, Jun 2022 ieeexplore.paper
• A. Krishnan K. S., C. K. Singh, S. T. Maguluri, P. Parag. Optimal pricing in multi server systems. Performance Evaluation 154, Apr 2022 elsevier.paper
• G. Gautam, S. Rathee, P. Patil, P. Parag. A scalable container-based virtualized data center emulation framework. International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) Jan 2022 ieeexplore.paper.slides.video.short video
• S. Ramanathan, G. Gautam, V. Srinivasan, P. Parag. Latency-redundancy tradeoff in distributed read-write systems. International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) Jan 2022 ieeexplore.paper.slides.video

2021

• V. Reddyvari, S. C. Bobbili, S. Shakkottai. Mode-suppression: A simple, stable and scalable chunk-sharing algorithm for P2P networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 29(6):2548--2559, Dec 2021 ieeexplore.appendix.paper
• A. K. Badita, V. Aggarwal. Single-forking of coded subtasks for straggler mitigation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 29(6):2413--2424, Dec 2021 ieeexplore.appendix.paper
• R. Jinan, A. K. Badita, P. K. Sarvepalli, P. Parag. Low latency replication coded storage over memory-constrained servers. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Jul 2021 ieeexplore.paper.slides.video.short video
• S. C. Bobbili, S. Bhambay, P. Parag. Variable length differential encoding for real-time status updates. IEEE Communication Letters 25(4):1129--1133, Apr 2021 ieeexplore.paper
• R. Jinan, H. Tyagi. Tracking an auto-regressive process with limited communication per unit time. MDPI Entropy 23(3):347, Mar 2021 mdpi.paper

2020

• S. C. Bobbili, J.-F. Chamberland. Real-time status updates with perfect feedback over erasure channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications 68(9):5363--5374, Sep 2020 ieeexplore.paper
• R. Bitar, S. E. Rouayheb. Minimizing latency for secure coded computing using secret sharing via staircase codes. IEEE Transactions on Communications 68(8):4609--4619, Aug 2020 ieeexplore.paper
• R. Jinan, H. Tyagi. Tracking an auto-regressive process with limited communication. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Los Angeles, CA, USA, Jun 21-26, 2020 ieeexplore.paper.slides.video
• A. Krishnan K. S., C. K. Singh, S. T. Maguluri, P. Parag. Optimal pricing in finite server systems. International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) Volos, Greece, Jun 15-19, 2020 ieeexplore.paper.slides.video
• P. Mayekar, H. Tyagi. Optimal lossless source codes for timely updates. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 66(6):3714--3731, Jun 2020 ieeexplore.paper
• S. K. Hanna, R. Bitar, P. Parag, V. Dasari, S. E. Rouayheb. Adaptive distributed stochastic gradient descent for minimizing delay in the presence of stragglers. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Barcelona, Spain, May 04-08, 2020 ieeexplore.paper.poster.video.video
• A. K. Badita, V. Aggarwal. Sequential addition of coded tasks for straggler mitigation. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Beijing, China, Apr 27-30, 2020 ieeexplore.paper.slides.video
• A. K. Badita, V. Aggarwal. Optimal server selection for straggler mitigation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 28(2):709--721, Apr 2020 ieeexplore.appendix.paper
• B. Amrutur, A. Gopalan, H. Tyagi. On the latency in vehicular control using video streaming over Wi-Fi. National Conference on Communications (NCC) IIT Kharagpur, India, Feb 21-23, 2020 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• B. Amrutur, Y. Simmhan, A. Gopalan, H. Tyagi. CORNET: A co-simulation middleware for robot networks. International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS) Bangalore, India, Jan 07-11, 2020 ieeexplore.paper.slides

2019

• S. Poojary, S. Bhambay, P. Parag. Real-time status updates for Markov source. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 65(9):5737--5749, Sep 2019 ieeexplore.paper
• A. K. Badita, J.-F. Chamberland. Latency analysis for distributed coded storage systems. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 65(8):4683--4698, Aug 2019 ieeexplore.paper
• A. Heiderzadeh, J.-F. Chamberland, R. D. Wesel, P. Parag. A systematic approach to incremental redundancy with application to erasure channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications 67(4):2620--2631, Apr 2019 ieeexplore.paper
• S. Bhambay, S. Poojary, P. Parag. Fixed length differential encoding for real-time status updates. IEEE Transactions on Communications 67(3):2381--2392, Mar 2019 ieeexplore.paper

2018

• A. Heiderzadeh, J.-F. Chamberland, R. D. Wesel. A systematic approach to incremental redundancy over erasure channels. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Vail, CO, USA, Jun 17-22, 2018 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• P. Mayekar, H. Tyagi. Optimal lossless source codes for timely updates. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Vail, CO, USA, Jun 17-22, 2018 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• V. Reddyvari, S. Shakkottai. Mode-suppression: A simple and provably stable chunk-sharing algorithm for P2P networks. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr 15-19, 2018 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• . Novel latency bounds for distributed coded storage. Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) San Diego, CA, Feb 11-16, 2018 ieeexplore.paper.slides

2017

• S. Poojary, S. Bhambay, P. Parag. Real-time status updates for correlated source. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov 6-10, 2017 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• R. Bitar, S. E. Rouayheb. Minimizing latency for secure distributed computing. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Aachen, Germany, Jun 25-30, 2017 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• P. Parag, A. Bura, J.-F. Chamberland. Latency analysis for distributed storage. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Atlanta, GA, May 1-4, 2017 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• S. Bhambay, S. Poojary, P. Parag. Differential encoding for real-time status updates. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) San Francisco, CA, Mar 19-22, 2017 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• P. Parag, A. Taghavi, J.-F. Chamberland. On real-time status updates over symbol erasure channels. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) San Francisco, CA, Mar 19-22, 2017 ieeexplore.paper.slides

2013

• P. Parag, J.-F. Chamberland, H. D. Pfister, K. R. Narayanan. Code-rate selection, queueing Behavior, and the correlated erasure channel. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 59(1):397--407, Jan 2013 ieeexplore.paper

2011

• J.-F. Chamberland. Exploiting an interplay between norms to analyze scalar quantization schemes. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-25, 2011 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• P. Parag, S. Sah, S. Shakkottai, J.-F. Chamberland. Value-aware resource allocation for service guarantees in networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 29(5):960--968, May 2011 ieeexplore.paper
• P. Parag, S. Shakkottai, I. Menache. Service routing in multi-ISP P2P content distribution: Local or remote? 2nd International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets) Shanghai, China, Apr 16-18, 2011 springer.paper.slides
• M. M. Amble, P. Parag, S. Shakkottai, L. Ying. Content-aware caching and traffic management in content distribution networks. IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Shanghai, China, Apr 10-15, 2011 ieeexplore.paper.slides

2010

• P. Parag, J.-F. Chamberland, H. D. Pfister, K. R. Narayanan. On the queueing behavior of random codes over a Gilbert-Elliot erasure channel. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Austin, TX, Jun 13-18, 2010 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• J.-F. Chamberland. Queueing analysis of a butterfly network for comparing network coding to classical routing. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 56(4):1890--1908, Apr 2010 ieeexplore.paper
• P. Parag, S. Shakkottai, J.-F. Chamberland. Value-aware resource allocation for service guarantees in networks. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) San Diego, CA, Mar 15-19, 2010 ieeexplore.paper.slides
• P. Parag, J.-F. Chamberland, H. D. Pfister, K. R. Narayanan. Code rate, queueing behavior and the correlated erasure channel. IEEE Information Theory Workshop(ITW) Invited Paper, Cairo, Egypt, Jan 6-8, 2010 ieeexplore.paper.slides

2008

• J.-F. Chamberland. Queueing analysis of a butterfly network. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Toronto, Canada, Jul 6-11, 2008 ieeexplore.paper.slides

2007

• L. Liu, J.-F. Chamberland. Quality of service analysis for user cooperation in wireless communication systems using fluid models. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 53(10):3833--3842, Oct 2007 ieeexplore.paper
• L. Liu, P. Parag, J. Tang, W.-Y. Chen, J.-F. Chamberland. Resource allocation and quality of service evaluation for wireless communication systems using fluid models. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 53(5):1767--1777, May 2007 ieeexplore.paper

2006

• L. Liu, P. Parag, J. Tang, W.-Y. Chen, J.-F. Chamberland. Resource allocation and quality of service evaluation for wireless communication systems using fluid models. 44th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Monticello, IL, Sep 27-29, 2006

2005

• P. Parag, S. Bhashyam, R. Aravind. A subcarrier allocation algorithm for OFDMA using buffer and channel state information. IEEE 62nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Sep 2005 ieeexplore.paper.slides.Entire.Google Patents

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