S. Mudd, 3509
2233 Tech Drive, 3rd Floor Evanston, IL USA 60208
1.847.491-2745
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment.
Experiment is the sole judge of scientific 'truth'. But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to
be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints.
Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics
I conduct research on Internet-scale computer networks and distributed systems. My research approach is primarily experimental -- building and evaluating ideas in “the wild”. Much of my work focuses on improving the visibility of measurement on networked systems, leveraging this visibility to characterize them and the infrastructure they rely on, and designing new and improved systems based on the gained insight. As the forces shaping the Internet ecosystem are less purely technical, in recent years I have started to explore the interactions between pervasive networked systems and their broader context, from natural disaster, to political unrest and economics. more?
What's New?
I am always looking for good students interested in networked systems (distributed
systems, networking, wired and mobile systems).
Two SIGMETRICS papers back to back, in 2023 looking at global threats towards consolidation and in 2024 on a study of intercontinental long-haul links as the network-layer manifestation of critical transoceanic undersea cables.
A new on IPXs, a great collaboration with Andra Lutu and Diego Perino, from Telefonica Research, and Marcelo Bagnulo, from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid will appear in ACM SIGCOMM 2021.
Nick Feamster and I co-chaired the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2020. Among the many changes we introduced to the review process, the use of a Review Task Force and Early Rejections seem to be popular and have been adopted by several other great conferences since.
Fabián E. Bustamante is a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University and Director of Research at Phenix, a Chicago-based startup specializing in real-time video streaming at scale. He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he studied and taught at Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia
San Juan Bosco (Argentina), where he earned both a 3-year and 5-year degree in computer science. His research interests span several areas of experimental systems, with a focus. His group has released numerous open-source systems, collectively used by over 1.5 million people. Fabián is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, multiple Google Faculty Research Awards, and the Science Foundation of Ireland’s E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award.
Curriculum Vitae
Recent and representative publications
Of Choices and Control - A Comparative Analysis of Government Hosting
Rashna Kumar, Esteban Carisimo, Lukas De Angelis Riva, Mauricio Buzzone, Fabián E. Bustamante, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Mariano G. Beiro
Proc. of the ACM IMC, 2024
Ten years of the Venezuelan crisis - An Internet perspective
Towards Re-Architecting Today's Internet for Survivability: NSF Workshop Report
Fabián E. Bustamante, John Doyle, Walter Willinger, Marwan Fayed, David L. Alderson, Steven Low, Stefan Savage, Henning Schulzrinne
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), 54 (1), pp. 36 - 47, 2024
A hop away from everywhere: A view of the intercontinental long-haul infrastructure
Esteban Carisimo, Caleb Wang, Mia Weaver, Fabián E. Bustamante, Paul Barford ACM SIGMETRICS 2024
Each at its own pace: Third-party Dependency and Centralization Around the World
Rashna Kumar, Sana Asif, Elise Lee, Fabián E. Bustamante ACM SIGMETRICS 2023
Global Mobile Network Aggregators: Taxonomy, Roaming Performance and Optimization
S. Alcalá-Marín, A. Raman, W. Wu, A. Lutu, M. Bagnulo, O. Alay, F.E. Bustamante. ACM MobiSys 2022
Insights from Operating an IP Exchange Provider,
A. Lutu, D. Perino, M. Bagnulo, F.E. Bustamante. ACM SIGCOMM 2021
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind - A User-View on the Criticality of the Submarine Cable Network,
S. Liu, Z. Bischof, I. Madan, P. Chan, and F.E. Bustamante. IMC 2020
Where Things Roam: Uncovering Cellular IoT/M2M Connectivity,
A. Lutu, B. Jun, A. Finamore, F.E. Bustamante, D. Perino. IMC 2020
AMP up your mobile web experience: Characterizing the impact of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Project,
B. Jun, F. E. Bustamante, S-Y. Whang and Z. Bischof. Mobicom 2019
Untangling the world-wide mesh of undersea cables
Z. Bischof, R. Fontugne, F.E. Bustamante. HotNets 2018
The Growing Importance of Being Always On -- A first look at the reliability of broadband Internet access,
Z. Bischof, F. E. Bustamante, N. Feamster. TPRC46 2018
Mile High WiFI: A First Look At In-Flight Internet Connectivity
J. Rula, F. E. Bustamante, J. Newman, A. Molavi Khaki, D. Choffnes. WWW 2018
Affiliated Faculty - Northwestern
Institute on Complex Systems - founded in 2004 with the
goals of uncovering fundamental principles governing complex
systems in science, technology, and human behavior and
applying these principles to solve societally relevant
problems through the analysis, design, and control of complex
systems.
Affiliated Faculty -
Northwestern Universtiy Transportation Center - a leading
interdisciplinary education and research institution
dedicated, since 1954, to the long-term improvement of
domestic and international systems for the movements of
materials, people, energy, and information.
Jeanine and I run long distance (ultras, marathons, half-marathons, and 10k). I have been running one marathon/ultra per year, with a few exceptions (one injury, pandemic) since 2000.
I have trained using the advanced plan from Hansons Brothers, which I highly recommend. For years I used a program that closely
follows Pfitzinger and Douglas in Advanced
marathoning and one season I tried the Furman's
FIRST three-days+cross marathon plan, but had to go back to the old approach -- long
quality miles. I am still looking for a good plan for ultras ...
I played Lock/2nd Row for
Chenque Rugby Club up to 1993. Many good
friends and family still play for the club or for the veteran
rugby team Los Alacranes.
Los Pumas'
passion
