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Conference paper (2026) - Rohan Bose, Jinwei Zhao, Tanya Shreedhar, Jianping Pan, Nitinder Mohan
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite ISPs promise universal Internet connectivity, yet their interaction with content delivery remains poorly understood. We present the first comprehensive measurement study decomposing Starlink's web content delivery performance decomposed across Point of Presence (PoP), DNS, and CDN layers. To quantify how satellite architecture disrupts terrestrial CDN assumptions, we conduct a measurement study spanning two years. We identify three distinct performance regimes based on infrastructure density. Regions with local content-rich PoPs achieve near-terrestrial latencies with the satellite segment dominating 80-90% of RTT. Infrastructure-sparse regions suffer cascading penalties: remote PoPs force distant resolver selection, which triggers CDN mislocalization, pushing latencies beyond 200 ms. Dense-infrastructure regions show minimal sensitivity to PoP changes. Leveraging Starlink's infrastructure expansion in early 2025 as a natural experiment, we demonstrate that relocating PoPs closer to user location reduces median page-fetch times by 60%. Our findings reveal that infrastructure proximity, not satellite coverage, influences web performance, requiring fundamental changes to CDN mapping and DNS resolution for satellite ISPs. ...

Understanding and Predicting Global Starlink Performance

Starlink has deployed over 7,800 satellites serving millions of subscribers, yet predicting its performance remains an open challenge. Rapid orbital dynamics, frequent handovers, and weather-induced signal attenuation create variability that existing models, built on a handful of instrumented terminals in limited regions, cannot capture at global scale. We present Horizon, the first global-scale machine learning system for predicting LEO satellite Internet performance. Our key insight is that crowdsourced measurement platforms, while noisier than controlled experiments, provide the geographic diversity necessary to build globally generalizable models. Horizon integrates 11 months of measurements from M-Lab and Cloudflare spanning 90+ countries with meteorological data and satellite orbital propagation features. On a fully held-out one-week temporal window, Horizon achieves mean absolute errors of 17.76 ms for latency and 25.63 Mbps for throughput; on a standard 80/20 split it outperforms all baselines, including adaptations of state-of-the-art architectures. Feature importance analysis reveals that geographic position dominates prediction, with latitude alone contributing 42-46%, while weather features account for 14-15%, quantifying the impact of atmospheric conditions on Ku/Ka-band links. Leave-one-location-out experiments confirm that Horizon generalizes to regions absent from training, enabling performance estimation where measurement infrastructure does not yet exist. Our dataset and pipeline are publicly available, providing a foundation for global LEO network performance visibility. ...

Third International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing - Welcome and Committees

Journal article (2024) - Ella Peltonen, Nitinder Mohan, Peter Zdankin, Malte Josten, Tanya Shreedar, Tanya Shreedhar, Suzan Bayhan, Javier Berrocal, Aaron Yi Ding, More authors...
Journal article (2023) - Ella Peltonen, Nitinder Mohan, Peter Zdankin, Tanya Shreedhar, Tri Nguyen, Suzan Bayhan, Jon Crowcroft, Jussi Kangasharju, Daniela Nicklas
Not all research leads to fruitful results; trying new ways or methods may surpass state of the art, but sometimes the hypothesis is not proven, the improvement is insignificant, or the system fails because of a design error done years ago in previous works. In a systems discipline like pervasive computing, there are many sources of errors, from hardware issues over communication channels to heterogeneous software environments. However, failure to succeed is not a failure to progress. It is essential to create platforms for sharing insights, experiences, and lessons learned when conducting research in pervasive computing so that the same mistakes are not repeated. And sometimes, a problem is a symptom of discovering new research challenges. Based on the collective input of the First International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing (PerFail 2022), co-located with the 20th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022), this article presents a comprehensive discussion on perspectives on publishing negative results, useful failures, and lessons learned in pervasive computing. ...
Conference paper (2021) - Leo Eichhorn, Tanya Shreedhar, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Nitinder Mohan
Edge computing has received significant attention from both academic and industrial research circles. The paradigm aims to decentralize the existing cloud infrastructure by incorporating resources co-located alongside its client. Researchers have also proposed solutions for a fully decentralized crowdsourced compute paradigm enabled by Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs). This paper investigates the rationale behind DLTs over crowdsourced resource marketplaces to support the requirements of latency-critical applications targeted by edge computing. We develop a fully configurable NEtworked Blockchain emULAtor, or NEBULA, to scrutinize the internal performance bottlenecks of DLTs. We evaluate two blockchain categories - proof-based (popularly used in Bitcoin, Ethereum) and hybrid consensus and find that the enabling factor of DLTs -scale - is also its primary latency contributor. We show that, in reality, the latency overheads due to DLT operation far exceed the operational requirements of edge applications. ...
Conference paper (2021) - Florian Aschenbrenner, Tanya Shreedhar, Oliver Gasser, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott
Multipath TCP (MPTCP) extends traditional TCP to enable simultaneous use of multiple connection endpoints at the source and destination. MPTCP has been under active development since its standardization in 2013, and more recently in February 2020, MPTCP was upstreamed to the Linux kernel. In this paper, we provide the first broad analysis of MPTCPv0 in the Internet. We probe the entire IPv4 address space and an IPv6 hitlist to detect MPTCP-enabled systems operational on port 80 and 443. Our scans reveal a steady increase in MPTCP-capable IPs, reaching 9k+ on IPv4 and a few dozen on IPv6. We also discover a significant share of seemingly MPTCP-capable hosts, an artifact of middleboxes mirroring TCP options. We conduct targeted HTTP(S) measurements towards select hosts and find that middleboxes can aggressively impact the perceived quality of applications utilizing MPTCP. Finally, we analyze two complementary traffic traces from CAIDA and MAWI to shed light on the real-world usage of MPTCP. We find that while MPTCP usage has increased by a factor of 20 over the past few years, its traffic share is still quite low. ...
Conference paper (2018) - Tanya Shreedhar, Nitinder Mohan, Sanjit K. Kaul, Jussi Kangasharju
Conference paper (2018) - Nitinder Mohan, Tanya Shreedhar, Aleksandr Zavodavoski, Otto Waltari, Jussi Kangasharju, Sanjit K. Kaul
Edge clouds are an attractive platform to support latency-sensitive applications by providing computations on servers deployed close to end-users. These servers aim to employ MPTCP to leverage multiple connections including wireless over a public network. In this paper, we show that the default MPTCP design does not adequately support reliability in these environments, which makes it unfit for use in edge clouds. We propose RAMPTCP, an extension to MPTCP which focuses on adding reliability over network paths. ...