Nabeel Akhtar

I am working at Akamai Technologies.

I am also collaborating with Prof. Ibrahim Matta at Boston Univeristy.

Before joining Akamai, I receivd my Ph.D. from Department of Computer Science at Boston University.

My areas of interests are Computer Networks, Network Virtualization, Network Softwarization, Future Internet Architectures and Network Optimization.

Latest News

March, 2023: Our paper Configuration and Placement of Serverless Applications using Statistical Learning got accepted at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM 2023).
Oct, 2021: Serving as guest editor for Computer Communications journal special issue on Edge Intelligence for 6G Networks, 2021
Oct, 2021: We got the Best Paper Award - Research Track 2021 at IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IEEE IC2E 2021). Checkout the ELSEC paper here!
Aug 4, 2021: Our paper Function-as-a-Service: From An Application Developer’s Perspective got accepted at Journal of Systems Research (JSys 2021).
Aug 3, 2021: Our paper LIBRA: An Economical Hybrid Approach for Cloud Application with Strict SLAs got accepted at IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IEEE IC2E 2021).
Jan 5, 2021: Our paper Managing Chains of Application Functions over Multi-Technology Edge Networks got accepted at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM 2021).
June 14, 2020: Selected to receive the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award 2020 recognizing the best propagation paper for our paper: Vehicle Mobility and Communication Channel Models for Realistic and Efficient Highway VANET Simulation, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 248-262, January 2015. Award consist of $1000 and certificate to be presented at the Awards Luncheon of the upcoming VTC2020-Fall Conference to be held in Victoria, Canada, October 4-7
December 4, 2019: Our paper COSE: Configuring Serverless Functions using Statistical Learning got accepted at IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2020), Canada.
November 2019: Our NSF grant proposal got accepted. It is based on my Ph.D. thesis, and I helped PIs in drafting it. We got $500,000 grant. HEECMA: A Hybrid Elastic Edge-Cloud Application Management Architecture. Project site http://sites.bu.edu/heecma/
November 20, 2019: In Technical Program Committee (TPC) for The Third International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2020), Budapest, Hungary, 2020
October 21, 2019: I started working at Akamai technologies in the Mapping and Network Control group. I am excited!
August 29, 2019: In Technical Program Committee (TPC) for IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Ghent, Belgium, 2020
August 25, 2019: I am in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS), Paris, France, January 23 - 24, 2020
August 6, 2019: I successfully defended my PhD thesis. I am excited about the next step!
August 6, 2019: I am in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for Midscale Education and Research Infrastructure and Tools (MERIT) workshop, co-hosted with IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2019), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 7, 2019
July 21, 2019: In Technical Program Committee (TPC) for IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2020, Budapest, Hungary.
April 5, 2019: In Technical Program Committee (TPC) for IEEE MENACOMM 2019.
November 19, 2018: Accepted Publicity Chair position for IEEE International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT), in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France.
September 12, 2018: In Technical Program Committee (TPC) for IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) 2019, Paris, France.
June 28, 2018: I will be presenting our paper Virtual Function Placement and Traffic Steering over 5G Multi-Technology Networks at IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) 2018, Montreal, Canada.
June 25, 2018: I will be chairing “Design, Management and Orchestration of Edge Computing and Tactile Internet” session at Smart network Technologies and Edge computing for the Tactile Internet (STET 2018), Montreal, Canada.
May 14-18, 2018: I am giving advance NFV/SDN tutorial on GENI testbed at GENI Regional Workshop (GRW 2018) and Summer Camp at Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
March 14, 2018: We got FIRST PRIZE for our project EL-SEC at GENI Experimenter Contest 2018. Award worth $6000. We are invited to present our project demo at IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Hawaii, USA.
February 9, 2018: Our paper EL-SEC: ELastic Management of SECurity Applications on Virtualized Infrastructure got accepted at IEEE INFOCOM International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research Using Testbeds (CNERT) 2018, Hawaii, USA.
February 8, 2018: Our demo paper EL-SEC: ELastic Management of SECurity Applications on Virtualized Infrastructure got accepted at IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Hawaii, USA.
November 3-4, 2017: I am giving tutorial on Managing a Virtual Network Function using SDN and Control Theory at GENI Regional Workshop (GRW 2017), University of Oregon, USA.
October 16, 2017: Presenting our work Using a Control Theoretic Load Balancer for Efficient Attack Traffic Analysis and Defense on Virtualized Infrastructure (poster) at The 2nd Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES 2017) , associated with IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), Boston, USA, Oct. 2017.
October 10, 2017: Presenting our work On Balancing Load to Quickly Detect and Stop Attack Traffic (poster/demo) at IEEE Network Innovators Community Event Workshop (IEEE NICE 2017), co-located with IEEE ICNP 2017, Toronto, Canada
August 15, 2017: Our journal paper Autonomic Communications in Software-Driven Networks got accepted at IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). Impact Factor 8.08