Publications

Policy Briefs & Reports

1. What We Can't See, We Can't Fix: The Journey to Build Independent and Accessible Broadband Data
   A. Gupta
   Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, 2026
2. Broadband Affordability and the BEAD Program: Analysis and Policy Recommendations
   H. Galperin, F. Bar, A. Gupta, E. Belding, L. Koduru
   MEDIA Project Phase 3, USC Annenberg, 2025
3. Beyond Access: Broadband Affordability & Adoption
   K. Allmann, E. Belding, A. Gupta, L. Koduru, T. Narechania, A. Nguyen
   JCOTS Research Study, Virginia General Assembly, 2025
4. Assessing the Broadband Service Gaps and Affordability Barriers in BEAD-Eligible Areas
   L. Koduru, A. Rojas, A. Penate, Z. Zhou, F. Bar, E. Belding, H. Galperin, A. Gupta
   TPRC, 2025
5. Evaluating the Effects of and Interdependencies among Federal Broadband Funding Programs
   L. Koduru, A. Gupta, E. Belding, T. Narechania
   TPRC, 2025
6. Strategic Reporting in the National Broadband Map
   Z. Wen, J. Bliton, L. Koduru, E. Belding, T. Narechania, A. Gupta, S. Hasan
   TPRC, 2025
7. Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Wisconsin Bell v. US ex rel. Heath (No. 23-1127)(US Oct. 1, 2024)
   E. Belding, A. Gupta, T. Narechania
   US Supreme Court, 2024
8. Measuring Broadband Policy Success
   H. Manda, V. Srinivasavaradhan, L. Koduru, K. Zhang, X. Zhou, U. Paul, E. Belding, A. Gupta, T. Narechania
   Harvard Law Review Blog, 2024
9. Internet Inequity in Chicago: Adoption, Affordability, and Availability
   T. Mangla, U. Paul, A. Gupta and N. Marwell
   TPRC, 2022

Conference & Journal Papers

1. TURBOTEST: Learning When Less is Enough through Early Termination of Internet Speed Tests
   H. Manda, M. Sagar, Yogesh, K. Singh, C. Zhao, T. Mangla, P. Gill, E. Belding, A. Gupta
   USENIX NSDI, 2026
2. SpliDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate
   M. Parvez, A. Zulfiqar, R. Beltiukov, S.L. Feibish, W. Willinger, A. Gupta, M. Shahbaz
   USENIX NSDI, 2026
3. Demystifying Network Foundation Models
   S. Beltiukov, S. Guthula, W. Guo, W. Willinger, A. Gupta
   NeurIPS (Dataset and Benchmarking Track), 2025
4. PreTE: Traffic Engineering with Predictive Failures
   C. Miao, Z. Zhong, A. Gupta, Y. Zhang, Q. Yuan, Z. He, X. Zou
   ACM SIGCOMM, 2025
5. Assessing the Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing Internet Access Inequities in the US
   H. Manda, V. Srinivasavaradhan, L. Koduru, K. Zhang, X. Zhou, U. Paul, E. Belding, A. Gupta, T. Narechania
   ACM SIGCOMM, 2024

   🏆 IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Prize (ANRP)

   ISOC Blog

   UCSB Press Release

   Broadband.io Article

   Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Talk

6. NetworkGym: Reinforcement Learning Environments for Multi-Access Traffic Management in Network Simulation
   M. Haider, M. Yin, M. Zhang, A. Gupta, J. Zhu, YX Wang
   NeurIPS (Dataset and Benchmarking Track), 2024
7. Leveraging Prefix Structure to Detect Volumetric DDoS Attack Signatures with Programmable Switches
   C. Misa, R. Durairajan, A. Gupta, R. Rejaie, W. Willinger
   IEEE S&P, 2024
8. Query Planning for Robust and Scalable Hybrid Network Telemetry Systems
   C. Shou, R. Bhatia, A. Gupta, R.Harrison, D. Lokshtanov, W. Willinger
   ACM CoNEXT, 2024
9. In Search of netUnicorn: A Data-Collection Platform to Develop Generalizable ML Models for Network Security Problems
   R. Beltiukov, W. Guo, A. Gupta, W. Willinger
   ACM CCS, 2023

   Project Website

10. Decoding the Divide: Analyzing Disparities in Broadband Plans Offered by Major US ISPs
    U. Paul, V. Gunasekaran, J. Liu, T. Narechania, A. Gupta, E. Belding
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2023

    Project Website

11. Estimating WebRTC Video QoE Metrics Without Using Application Headers
    T. Sharma, T. Mangla, A. Gupta, J. Jiang, N. Feamster
    ACM IMC, 2023
12. Panakos: Chasing the Tails for Multidimensional Data Streams
    F. Zhao, P. Khan, D. Agarwal, A. Abbadi, A. Gupta, A. Liu
    ACM VLDB, 2023
13. Challenges and Opportunities for Beyond-5G Wireless Security
    E. Ruzomberka, D. Love, C. Brinton, A. Gupta, C. Wang, V. Poor
    IEEE S&P, 2023
14. AI/ML for Network Security: The Emperor has no Clothes
    A. Jacobs, R. Beltiukov, W. Willinger, R. Ferreira, A. Gupta, L. Granville
    ACM CCS, 2022

    Project Website

    🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention

    🏆 IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Prize (ANRP)

15. The Importance of Contextualization of Crowdsourced Active Speed Test Measurements
    U. Paul, J. Liu, A. Gupta, M. Gu, E. Belding
    ACM IMC, 2022

    Project Website

    🏆 Distinguished Paper Award

16. Detecting Ephemeral Optical Events with OpTel
    C. Miao, M. Chen, A. Gupta, Z. Meng, L. Ye, J. Xiao, J. Chen, Z. He, X. Luo, J. Wang, H. Yu
    USENIX NSDI, 2022
17. Characterizing Internet Access and Quality Inequities in California M-Lab Measurements
    U. Paul, J. Liu, D. Farias-llerenas, V. Adarsh, A. Gupta, E. Belding
    ACM COMPASS, 2022
18. Continuous Flow Measurement with SuperFlow
    Z. Zhao, X. Shi, A. Gupta, Q. Li, Z. Wang, B. Xiong, X. Yin
    IWQoS, 2021
19. Coverage is Not Binary: Quantifying Mobile Broadband Quality in Urban, Rural, and Tribal Contexts
    V. Adarsh, M. Nekrasov, U. Paul, T. Mangla, A. Gupta, M. Vigil-Hayes, E. Zegura, E. Belding
    ICCCN, 2021
20. Too Late for Playback: Estimation of Video Stream Quality in Rural and Urban Contexts
    V. Adarsh, M. Nekrasov, U. Paul, T. Mangla, A. Gupta, M. Vigil-Hayes, E. Zegura, E. Belding
    PAM, 2021
21. PacketScope: Monitoring the Packet Lifecycle Inside a Switch
    R. Teixeira, R. Harrison, A. Gupta, J. Rexford
    ACM SOSR, 2020
22. (How Much) Does a Private WAN Improve Cloud Performance?
    Todd W Arnold, Ege Gurmericliler, Georgia Essig, Arpit Gupta, Matt Calder, Georgia Essig, Vasileios Giotsas, Ethan Katz-Bassett
    INFOCOM, 2020
23. Sonata: Query-Driven Network Telemetry
    Arpit Gupta, Rob Harrison, Ankita Pawar, Marco Canini, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Walter Willinger
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2018

    Project Website

24. Network-Wide Heavy Hitter Detection with Commodity Switches
    Rob Harrison, Qizhe Cai, Arpit Gupta, Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SOSR, 2018
25. SDX-Based Flexibility or Internet Correctness?: Pick Two!
    Rüdiger Birkner, Arpit Gupta, Nick Feamster, Laurent Vanbever
    ACM SOSR, 2017
26. Concise Encoding of Flow Attributes in SDN Switches
    Robert MacDavid, Rüdiger Birkner, Ori Rottenstreich, Arpit Gupta, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SOSR, 2017

    🏆 Best Paper Award

27. An Industrial-Scale Software Defined Internet Exchange Point
    Arpit Gupta, Robert MacDavid, Rüdiger Birkner, Marco Canini, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Laurent Vanbever
    USENIX NSDI, 2016

    🏆 USENIX Best of the Rest

    🏆 USENIX NSDI Community Contribution Award

28. Authorizing Network Control at Software Defined Internet Exchange Points
    Arpit Gupta, Nick Feamster, Laurent Vanbever
    ACM SOSR, 2016
29. Kinetic: Verifiable Dynamic Network Control
    Hyojoon Kim, Joshua Reich, Arpit Gupta, Muhammad Shahbaz, Nick Feamster, Russ Clark
    USENIX NSDI, 2015
30. SDX: A Software Defined Internet Exchange
    Arpit Gupta, Laurent Vanbever, Muhammad Shahbaz, Sean Patrick Donovan, Brandon Schlinker, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, Russ Clark, Ethan Katz-Bassett
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2014

    🏆 Internet-2 Innovation Award

Under Review & Preprints

1. NetReplica: Toward a Programmable Substrate for Last-Mile Data Generation
   J. Daneshamooz, S. Guthula, J. Nguyen, W. Chen, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Gupta, A. Gupta, W. Willinger
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.13476, 2025
2. NetBurst: Event-Centric Forecasting of Bursty, Intermittent Time Series
   S. Guthula, J. Daneshamooz, C. Fleming, A. Kundu, W. Willinger, A. Gupta
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22397, 2025
3. netFound: Foundation Model for Network Security
   S. Guthula, R. Beltiukov, N. Battula, W. Guo, A. Gupta
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17025, 2023
4. DynamiQ: Planning for Dynamics in Network Streaming Analytics Systems
   R. Bhatia, A. Gupta, R. Harrison, D. Lokshtanov, W. Willinger
   arXiv: Report 2106.05420, 2021
5. Characterizing Performance Inequity Across US Ookla Speedtest Users
   U Paul, J Liu, V Adarsh, M Gu, A Gupta, E Belding
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12038, 2021

Workshops & Short Papers

1. NetGent: Agent-Based Automation of Network Application Workflows
   J.Daneshamooz, E. Vuong, L. Koduru, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Gupta
   NeurIPS Workshop (MLforSys), 2025
2. SpliDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate
   M. Parvez, A. Zulfiqar, R. Beltiukov, S.L. Feibish, W. Willinger, A. Gupta, M. Shahbaz
   ACM SIGCOMM (Shorts), 2025
3. When Something Looks too Good to be True, it Usually is! AI is Causing a Credibility Crisis in Networking
   W. Willinger, R. A Ferreira, A. Gupta, R. Beltiukov, S. Guthula, L. Z Granville, A. Jacobs
   ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 2025
4. Harnessing Public Code Repositories to Develop Production-Ready ML Artifacts for Networking
   P. Khan, S. Guthula, R. Beltiukov, R. Schmid, T. Bühler, A. Gupta, L. Vanbever, W. Willinger
   IRTF ANRW, 2024
5. Special Issue on The ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on Measurements for Self-Driving Networks
   A. Gupta, R. Durairajan, W. Willinger
   2023, 2023

   Workshop Website

6. A NetAI Manifesto (Part I): Less Explorimentation, More Science
   W. Willinger, A. Gupta, A. Jacobs, R. Beltiukov, R. Ferreira, L. Granville
   SIGMETRICS Workshop (Self-Driving Networks), 2023
7. A NetAI Manifesto (Part II): Less Hubris, more Humility
   W. Willinger, A. Gupta, R. Beltiukov, W. Guo
   SIGMETRICS Workshop (Self-Driving Networks), 2023
8. PINOT: Programmable Infrastructure for Networking
   R. Beltiukov, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Gupta, W. Willinger
   IRTF ANRW, 2023
9. Towards client-side active measurements without application control.
   P. Goenka, K. Zarifis, A. Gupta, M. Calder
   ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 2022
10. Carpe Elephants: Seize the Global Heavy Hitters
    Rob Harrison, Shir L. Feibish, Arpit Gupta, Ross Teixeira, S. Muthukrishnan, Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SIGCOMM SPIN, 2020
11. An Effort to Democratize Networking Research in the Era of AI/ML
    Arpit Gupta, Chris MacStoker, Walter Willinger
    ACM HotNets, 2019
12. Beating BGP is Harder than We Thought
    Todd Arnold, Matt Calder, Arpit Gupta, Italo Cunha, Michael Schapira, Ethan Katz-Bassett
    ACM HotNets, 2019
13. ONTAS: Flexible and Scalable Online Network Traffic Anonymization System
    Hyojoon Kim, Arpit Gupta
    NetAI, 2019
14. Preserving Privacy at IXPs
    Xiaohe Hu, Arpit Gupta, Aurojit Panda, Nick Feamster, Scott Shenker
    APNet, 2018
15. Network Monitoring as a Streaming Analytics Problem
    Arpit Gupta, Rüdiger Birkner, Marco Canini, Nick Feamster, Chris Mac-Stoker, Walter Willinger
    ACM HotNets, 2016
16. Peering at the Internet's Frontier: A First Look at ISP Interconnectivity in Africa
    Arpit Gupta, Matt Calder, Nick Feamster, Marshini Chetty, Enrico Calandro, Ethan Katz-Bassett
    PAM, 2014