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. Create Independent Broadband Data for Public Accountability
   A. Gupta
   Policy Brief, UC Presidential Faculty Fellows Program, 2026

   Presented at the Congressional Staff Briefing “Building Trust in Public Institutions,” Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington DC, May 2026

3. 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
4. Beyond Access: Broadband Affordability & Adoption
   K. Allmann, E. Belding, A. Gupta, L. Koduru, T. Narechania, A. Nguyen
   JCOTS Research Study, Virginia General Assembly, 2025
5. 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
6. Evaluating the Effects of and Interdependencies among Federal Broadband Funding Programs
   L. Koduru, A. Gupta, E. Belding, T. Narechania
   TPRC, 2025
7. Strategic Misreporting in the National Broadband Map
   Z. Wen, J. Bliton, L. Koduru, E. Belding, T. Narechania, A. Gupta, S. Hasan
   TPRC, 2025
8. 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
9. 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
10. Internet Inequity in Chicago: Adoption, Affordability, and Availability
    T. Mangla, U. Paul, A. Gupta and N. Marwell
    TPRC, 2022

Conference & Journal Papers

1. Facilitating Experiential Learning in Networking Education
   J. Daneshamooz, S. Chandrasekaran, S. Guthula, S. Beltiukov, W. Willinger, A. Gupta
   ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), 2027
2. From Measurement to Policy Design: A Convex Optimization Framework for Broadband Affordability Using Address-Level Data Collected with the Broadband-Plan Querying Tool (BQT+)
   L. Koduru, K. Allmann, T. Narechania, E. Belding, A. Gupta
   TPRC, 2026
3. 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
4. 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
5. Demystifying Network Foundation Models
   S. Beltiukov, S. Guthula, W. Guo, W. Willinger, A. Gupta
   NeurIPS (Dataset and Benchmarking Track), 2025
6. PreTE: Traffic Engineering with Predictive Failures
   C. Miao, Z. Zhong, A. Gupta, Y. Zhang, Q. Yuan, Z. He, X. Zou
   ACM SIGCOMM, 2025
7. 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

8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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

12. 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

13. Estimating WebRTC Video QoE Metrics Without Using Application Headers
    T. Sharma, T. Mangla, A. Gupta, J. Jiang, N. Feamster
    ACM IMC, 2023
14. Panakos: Chasing the Tails for Multidimensional Data Streams
    F. Zhao, P. Khan, D. Agarwal, A. Abbadi, A. Gupta, A. Liu
    ACM VLDB, 2023
15. Challenges and Opportunities for Beyond-5G Wireless Security
    E. Ruzomberka, D. Love, C. Brinton, A. Gupta, C. Wang, V. Poor
    IEEE S&P, 2023
16. 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)

17. 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

18. 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
19. 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
20. Continuous Flow Measurement with SuperFlow
    Z. Zhao, X. Shi, A. Gupta, Q. Li, Z. Wang, B. Xiong, X. Yin
    IWQoS, 2021
21. 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
22. 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
23. PacketScope: Monitoring the Packet Lifecycle Inside a Switch
    R. Teixeira, R. Harrison, A. Gupta, J. Rexford
    ACM SOSR, 2020
24. (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
25. Sonata: Query-Driven Network Telemetry
    Arpit Gupta, Rob Harrison, Ankita Pawar, Marco Canini, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Walter Willinger
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2018

    Project Website

26. Network-Wide Heavy Hitter Detection with Commodity Switches
    Rob Harrison, Qizhe Cai, Arpit Gupta, Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SOSR, 2018
27. SDX-Based Flexibility or Internet Correctness?: Pick Two!
    Rüdiger Birkner, Arpit Gupta, Nick Feamster, Laurent Vanbever
    ACM SOSR, 2017
28. 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

29. 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

30. Authorizing Network Control at Software Defined Internet Exchange Points
    Arpit Gupta, Nick Feamster, Laurent Vanbever
    ACM SOSR, 2016
31. Kinetic: Verifiable Dynamic Network Control
    Hyojoon Kim, Joshua Reich, Arpit Gupta, Muhammad Shahbaz, Nick Feamster, Russ Clark
    USENIX NSDI, 2015
32. 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. Robust and Extensible Measurement of Broadband Plans with BQT+
   L. Koduru, S. Beltiukov, A. Nguyen, E. Vuong, J. Daneshamooz, T. Narechania, E. Belding, A. Gupta
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.16969, 2026
2. Pramana: A Composable, Domain-Specific Backend for Empirical Networking Research
   J. Daneshamooz, E. Vuong, A. Ramanathan, M. Moghimi, H. Manda, S. Kumar, S. Thode, S. Guthula, S. Beltiukov, D. Han, T. Mangla, S. Abdu Jyothi, W. Willinger, A. Gupta
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.26352, 2026
3. NetReplica: A Programmable Substrate for Bottleneck-Centric Network Data Generation
   J. Daneshamooz, S. Guthula, J. Nguyen, W. Chen, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Gupta, A. Gupta, W. Willinger
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.13476, 2025
4. The Multifractal IP Address Structure: Physical Explanation and Implications
   C. Misa, R. Durairajan, A. Gupta, R. Rejaie, W. Willinger
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.01374, 2025
5. 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
6. netFound: Foundation Model for Network Security
   S. Guthula, R. Beltiukov, N. Battula, W. Guo, A. Gupta
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17025, 2023
7. DynamiQ: Planning for Dynamics in Network Streaming Analytics Systems
   R. Bhatia, A. Gupta, R. Harrison, D. Lokshtanov, W. Willinger
   arXiv: Report 2106.05420, 2021
8. 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. Loom: A Bottleneck-Regime Substrate for Reproducible Network Data Generation
   J. Daneshamooz, S. Guthula, J. Nguyen, W. Chen, A. Gupta, W. Willinger, A. Gupta
   Workshop on Network Traffic Classification — Reloaded (NTC-R), co-located with ACM CoNEXT, 2026
2. Rethinking Network Foundation Models: From Bigger Models to Better Data
   J. Daneshamooz, H. Manda, M. Moghimi, S. Beltiukov, W. Willinger, A. Gupta
   Workshop on Network Traffic Classification — Reloaded (NTC-R), co-located with ACM CoNEXT, 2026
3. A First-Principles Framework for Networking Education
   J. Daneshamooz, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Gupta
   ACM SIGCOMM, 2026
4. NetGent: Agent-Based Automation of Network Application Workflows
   J.Daneshamooz, E. Vuong, L. Koduru, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Gupta
   NeurIPS Workshop (MLforSys), 2025
5. Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements
   S. Beltiukov, K. Bhattaram, E. Cheng, V. Kanigicherla, A. Singh, K. Thampiratwong, A. Gupta
   ACM IMC PRIME Workshop, 2025
6. Enabling Data-Driven Policymaking using Broadband-Plan Querying Tool (BQT+)
   L. Koduru, S. Beltiukov, J. Daneshamooz, E. Vuong, A. Gupta, E. Belding, T. Narechania
   ACM IMC PRIME Workshop, 2025
7. The Policy Implications of Early Termination in Internet Speed Testing
   H. Manda, M. Sagar, Yogesh, K. Singh, C. Zhao, T. Mangla, P. Gill, E. Belding, A. Gupta
   ACM IMC PRIME Workshop, 2025
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. Special Issue on The ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on Measurements for Self-Driving Networks
    A. Gupta, R. Durairajan, W. Willinger
    2023, 2023

    Workshop Website

12. 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
13. A NetAI Manifesto (Part II): Less Hubris, more Humility
    W. Willinger, A. Gupta, R. Beltiukov, W. Guo
    SIGMETRICS Workshop (Self-Driving Networks), 2023
14. PINOT: Programmable Infrastructure for Networking
    R. Beltiukov, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Gupta, W. Willinger
    IRTF ANRW, 2023
15. Towards client-side active measurements without application control.
    P. Goenka, K. Zarifis, A. Gupta, M. Calder
    ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 2022
16. Carpe Elephants: Seize the Global Heavy Hitters
    Rob Harrison, Shir L. Feibish, Arpit Gupta, Ross Teixeira, S. Muthukrishnan, Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SIGCOMM SPIN, 2020
17. An Effort to Democratize Networking Research in the Era of AI/ML
    Arpit Gupta, Chris MacStoker, Walter Willinger
    ACM HotNets, 2019
18. Beating BGP is Harder than We Thought
    Todd Arnold, Matt Calder, Arpit Gupta, Italo Cunha, Michael Schapira, Ethan Katz-Bassett
    ACM HotNets, 2019
19. ONTAS: Flexible and Scalable Online Network Traffic Anonymization System
    Hyojoon Kim, Arpit Gupta
    NetAI, 2019
20. Preserving Privacy at IXPs
    Xiaohe Hu, Arpit Gupta, Aurojit Panda, Nick Feamster, Scott Shenker
    APNet, 2018
21. Network Monitoring as a Streaming Analytics Problem
    Arpit Gupta, Rüdiger Birkner, Marco Canini, Nick Feamster, Chris Mac-Stoker, Walter Willinger
    ACM HotNets, 2016
22. 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