About me

I am passionate about networked systems that solve problems at scale.

During my PhD, I applied Software-defined networking, Distributed systems, and Data analytics to solve scalability and reliability problems in the NFV-based mobile (LTE/EPC) networks (PhD dissertation). I worked with Kobus who was my advisor. Besides my research, I helped Utah’s Flux team standing up the PhantomNet testbed (now has become the POWDER city-scale wireless testbed in Salt Lake City).

I am currently at Charter Communications’ Advanced Engineering working on network automation/orchestration.

Contact: luminbinh (obvious missing) gmail.com

Resume & CV:

Work experience:

  • Charter Communications - Principal Engineer - Denver - 2017/12 - Now
  • Microsoft Research - Research Intern - Cambridge, UK - Summer 2016
  • Nokia Bell Labs - Research Intern - Murray Hill, NJ - Summer 2015
  • AT&T Labs Research - Research Intern - Bedminster, NJ - Summer 2014
  • Flux Research Group - Research Assistant - Univeristy of Utah - 2012-2017
  • School of Computing - Teaching Assistant - Univeristy of Utah - Fall 2012

Publications:

ENHANCING SCALABILITY AND RELIABILITY IN MOBILE CORE NETWORKS.
Binh Nguyen, Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Utah. 2018.
[Ph.D. Dissertation].

ECHO: A reliable distributed cellular core network for hyper-scale public clouds.
Binh Nguyen, Tian Zhang, Bozidar Radunovic, Ryan Stutsman, Thomas Karagiannis, Jakub Kocur, and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe. MOBICOM’ 18. New Delhi. India.
[Paper], [1-min video].

SIMECA: SDN-based IoT Mobile Edge Cloud Architecture.
Binh Nguyen, Nakjung Choi, Marina Thottan, and Jacobus Van der Merwe. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Intergrated Network Management 2017 (ISINM’ 17), Portugal.
[Paper], [Repeatable profile], [SDN controller source code]

ABSENCE: Usage-based Failure Detection in Mobile Networks..
Binh Nguyen, Zihui Ge, Jacobus Van der Merwe, He Yan, and Jennifer Yates. MOBICOM’ 15. Paris, France.
[Paper], [1-min video], [Slides]

PhantomNet: Research Infrastructure for Mobile Networking, Cloud Computing and Software-Defined Networking.
Arijit Banerjee, Junguk Cho, Eric Eide, Jonathon Duerig, Binh Nguyen, Robert Ricci, Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe, Kirk Webb, and Gary Wong. ACM GetMobile’ 16.
[Paper]

Efficient, Adaptive and Scalable Device Activation for M2M Communications.
Arijit Banerjee, Binh Nguyen, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Seungjoon Lee, and Jacobus Van der Merwe. IEEE SECON’ 15.
[Paper]

Towards Understanding TCP Performance on LTE/EPC Mobile Networks.
Binh Nguyen, Arijit Banerjee, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Seungjoon Lee, Aman Shaikh, and Jacobus Van der Merwe. ACM SIGCOMM All Things Cellular’ 14, Chicago.
[Paper], [Slides]

SMORE: Software-Defined Networking Mobile Offloading Architecture.
Junguk Cho, Binh Nguyen, Arijit Banerjee, Robert Ricci, Jacobus Van der Merwe, and Kirk Webb. ACM SIGCOMM All Things Cellular’ 14, Chicago.
[Paper], [Slides]

Patents:

Telecommunications network with data centre deployment.
Bozidar Radunovic, Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Parisa Jalili Marandi, Binh Nguyen, Matthew John Balkwill.
US, 15406348. 7/19/2018.

Programmable system architecture for routing data packets in virtual base stations.
Nakjung Choi, Binh Nguyen, Marina Thottan.
US, 15068953, 9/14/2017.

Source code & tutorials: