Suresh Subramaniam

Suresh Subramaniam

Department Chair and Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs

Contact:

Email: Suresh Subramaniam

Office Phone: 202-994-4743

SEH 6570

Professor Suresh Subramaniam's group is involved in developing novel network architectures and algorithms and conducting performance analyses of networks. His particular interests include fiber-optic and free-space-optic networks, data center networks, and cloud computing and networking. Previously, he has also worked on wireless ad hoc networks.

Education

B.E., Anna University, 1988
M.S.E.E., Tulane University, 1993
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1997

Areas of Expertise

Optical networks
Cloud computing
Data center networks
Internet-of-Things
Age of Information

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Papers

S. Alamro, M. Xu, T. Lan, and S. Subramaniam, “Shed+: Optimal dynamic speculation to meet application deadlines in cloud,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2020.
R. Zou, H. Hasegawa, M. Jinno, and S. Subramaniam, “Link-protection and FIPP P-cycle designs in translucent elastic optical networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 163–176, Jul 2020.
P. Zou, O. Ozel, and S. Subramaniam, “Waiting before serving: A companion to packet management in status update systems,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 3864–3877, Jun 2020.
J. Fan, X. Wei, T. Wang, T. Lan, and S. Subramaniam, “Churn-resilient task scheduling in a tiered IoT infrastructure,” China Communications, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 162–175, Aug 2019.
J. Wu, S. Subramaniam, and H. Hasegawa, “Efficient dynamic routing and spectrum assignment for multifiber elastic optical networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 190–201, May 2019.
X. Wei, C. Tang, J. Fan, and S. Subramaniam, “Joint optimization of energy consumption and delay in cloud-to-thing continuum,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 2325–2337, Apr 2019.
F. Yao, J. Wu, G. Venkataramani, and S. Subramaniam, “TS-BatPro: Improving energy efficiency in data centers by leveraging temporal–spatial batching,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 236–249, Mar 2019.
J. Wu, M. Xu, S. Subramaniam, and H. Hasegawa, “Joint banding-node placement and resource allocation for multi-granular elastic optical networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. C27-C38, Aug 2018.
M. Xu, C. Liu, and S. Subramaniam, “PODCA: A passive optical data center network architecture,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 409–420, Apr 2018.
M. Xu, S. Alamro, T. Lian, and S. Subramaniam, “CRED: Cloud right-sizing with execution deadlines and data locality,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 3389–3400, Dec 2017.

Conference Papers

P. Rafiee, P. Zou, O. Ozel, and S. Subramaniam, “Maintaining information freshness in power-efficient status update systems,” in Proc. Infocom Workshop on Age of Information, Jul 2020.
M. Tian, A. Vishwanath, G. Venkataramani, and S. Subramaniam, “SpinSmart: Exploring optimal server fan speeds to improve overall system energy consumption,” in Proc. Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centers, Jun 2020.
J. Zhao and S. Subramaniam, “Virtual network mapping in elastic optical networks with advance reservation,” in Proc. ICC, Jun 2020.
T. Kuno, Y. Mori, S. Subramaniam, M. Jinno, and H. Hasegawa, “High-throughput and high-port-count optical cross-connents using flexible waveband routing,” in Proc. ONDM, May 2020. Best Student Paper Award.
R. Zou, S. Subramaniam, H. Hasegawa, and M. Jinno, “P-cycle design for translucent elastic optical networks,” in Proc. Globecom, Dec 2019.
Y. Azuma, T. Kodama, M. Jinno, H. Hasegawa, and S. Subramaniam, “Effect of geographical distribution of failed links on survivability improvement in translucent elastic optical network employing shared protection with fallback,” in Proc. Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACPC), Nov 2019.
F. Yao, K. Nguyen, S. Dayupule, B. Lu, J. Wu, S. Subramaniam, and G. Venkataramani, “HolDCSim: A joint server-network simulator for data centers,” in IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Oct 2019.
P. Zou, O. Ozel, and S. Subramaniam, “Trading off computation with transmission in status update systems,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sep 2019.
——, “Relative age of information: a new metric for status update systems,” in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Aug 2019.
M. Xu, J. Diakonikolas, S. Subramaniam, and E. Modiano, “A hierarchical WDM-based scalable data center network architecture,” in Proc. ICC, May 2019.

Distinctions

Fellow of IEEE
IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, 2018–2021
GWU SEAS Distinguished Researcher Award, 2017
Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
Chair, IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee, 2012–2013
TPC Co-Chair, INFOCOM 2013, ICC 2007