Network performance management, End-to-end quality of service, Flow and congestion control,

Scheduling, Protocol design and implementation, Computer-telephony integration

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley August 1991
    Thesis: Congestion Control in Computer Networks
    Research advisor: Prof. Domenico Ferrari

B.Tech. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, May 1986

Research and teaching in computer networking. Lead the C/NRG group, working in the areas of Network Performance Management, Topology-aware algorithms, and Computer Telephony Integration.

Participated in the design, implementation, testing, and performance tuning of Xunet II, a wide-area high-speed ATM network testbed, IDLInet, a Personal-Computer-based ATM LAN that provides native-mode ATM connections. Conducted research in several topics in traffic management and feedback congestion control. Wrote a graduate-level textbook on an engineering approach to computer networking; published by Addison-Wesley in May 1997. Supervised three students who each worked with me for a year.

Developed and taught a second-level course on telephony and computer networking.

X.W.Huang, R. Sharma, and S. Keshav, The Entrapid Protocol Development Environment, To Appear, Proc. Infocom '99, March 1999.

S. Keshav and R. Sharma, Achieving Quality of Service through Network Performance Management, Proc. NOSSDAV ’98, July 1998.

S. Keshav and R. Sharma, Issues and Trends in Router Design, IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1998.

M. Grossglauser, S. Keshav, and D. Tse, RCBR: A Simple and Efficient Service for Multiple Time-Scale Traffic, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM'95, August 1995; also in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1997.

S. Keshav, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, Addison-Wesley, May 1997.

C.R. Kalmanek, S. Keshav, W.T. Marshall, S.P. Morgan, and R.C. Restrick, Xunet 2: Lessons from an Early Wide-Area ATM Testbed, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, April 1997.

R. Ahuja, S. Keshav, and H. Saran, Design, Implementation, and Performance of a Native-Mode ATM Transport Protocol, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 1996.

S. Keshav, C. Lund, S. Phillips, N. Reingold, and H. Saran, An Empirical Evaluation of Virtual Circuit Holding Time Policies in IP-over-ATM Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, October 1995.

S. Keshav, A Control-theoretic Approach to Flow Control, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 1991, Sept. 1991. (Best Student Paper award)

A. Demers, S. Keshav and S. Shenker, Analysis and Simulation of a Fair Queueing Algorithm, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '89; also in Journal of Internetworking Research and Experience, V1, N1, September 1990, pp. 3-26.

Ph. D.Thesis committee member: Klara Nahrstedt, U. Penn, 1994; Nikos Aneroussis, Columbia, 1995; Pawan Goyal, UT Austin, 1997; Zvi Ostfeld, Tel Aviv, 1997; Rosen Sharma, Cornell (Chair), 1998.