Publications

2026

TURBOTEST: Learning When Less is Enough through Early Termination of Internet Speed Tests
Haarika Manda, Manshi Sagar, Kartikay Singh, Cindy Zhao, Tarun Mangla, Phillipa Gill, Elizabeth Belding, Arpit Gupta
USENIX NSDI conference

2025

STACD: STAC Extension with DAGs for Geospatial Data and Algorithm Management
Saharsh Laud, Saurabh Joshi, Tarun Mangla, Abhilash Jindal, Aaditeshwar Seth
ACM SIGPLAN Programming for the Planet Workshop workshop

2023

Estimating WebRTC Video QoE Metrics Without Using Application Headers
Taveesh Sharma, Tarun Mangla, Arpit Gupta, Junchen Jiang, Nick Feamster
ACM IMC conference

AMIR: Active Multimodal Interaction Recognition from Video and Network Traffic in Connected Environments
Shinan Liu, Tarun Mangla, Ted Shaowang, Jinjin Zhao, John Paparrizos, Sanjay Krishnan, Nick Feamster
ACM IMWUT/Ubicomp conference

A Comparative Analysis of Ookla Speedtest and Measurement Labs Network Diagnostic Test (NDT7)
Kyle MacMillan, Tarun Mangla, James Saxon, Nicole P. Marwell, Nick Feamster
ACM SIGMETRICS conference

2022

Internet Inequity in Chicago: Adoption, Affordability, and Availability
Tarun Mangla, Udit Paul, Arpit Gupta, Nicole P. Marwell, Nick Feamster
TPRC preprint

Best Practices for Collecting Speed Test Data
Kyle MacMillan, Tarun Mangla, Marc Richardson, Nick Feamster
TPRC preprint

Benchmarks or Equity? A New Approach to Measuring Internet Performance
Ranya Sharma, Tarun Mangla, James Saxon, Marc Richardson, Nick Feamster, Nicole P. Marwell
TPRC preprint

A tale of three datasets: characterizing mobile broadband access in the US
Tarun Mangla, Esther Showalter, Vivek Adarsh, Kipp Jones, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Elizabeth Belding, Ellen Zegura
Communications of the ACM journal

2021

Measuring the performance and network utilization of popular video conferencing applications
Kyle MacMillan, Tarun Mangla, James Saxon, Nick Feamster
ACM IMC conference

Coverage is not binary: Quantifying mobile broadband quality in urban, rural, and tribal contexts
Vivek Adarsh, Michael Nekrasov, Udit Paul, Tarun Mangla, Arpit Gupta, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Ellen Zegura, Elizabeth Belding
IEEE ICCCN conference

2020

Drop the packets: using coarse-grained data to detect video performance issues
Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar
ACM CoNEXT conference

2019

Using session modeling to estimate HTTP-based video QoE metrics from encrypted network traffic
Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal

2018

eMIMIC: Estimating HTTP-based video QoE metrics from encrypted network traffic
Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura
IEEE TMA conference Best Paper Award

VideoNOC: Assessing video QoE for network operators using passive measurements
Tarun Mangla, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, Emir Halepovic, Kyung-Wook Hwang, Rittwik Jana, Marco Platania
ACM MMSys conference

2017

MIMIC: Using passive network measurements to estimate HTTP-based adaptive video QoE metrics
Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura
IEEE MNM workshop

2016

Video through a crystal ball: Effect of bandwidth prediction quality on adaptive streaming in mobile environments
Tarun Mangla, Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Saurabh Bagchi
ACM MoVid Workshop workshop

TANGO: Toward a more reliable mobile streaming through cooperation between cellular network and mobile devices
Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt, Tarun Mangla, Saurabh Bagchi, Rajesh Panta, Kaustubh Joshi, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura
IEEE SRDS conference

2013

Optimal radius for connectivity in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks
Amitabha Bagchi, Cristina M. Pinotti, Sainyam Galhotra, Tarun Mangla
ACM MSWiM conference