E-mail: sora@sfc.wide.ad.jp

TEL: +81-466-49-3529

Yohei Kuga's Resume

I'm a Ph.D student in the Graduate School of Media and Governance (Course: Cyber Informatics) working in the Jun Murai Lab at Keio University, Japan under the supervision of Kenjiro Cho (IIJ Research Lab). My research interests include distributed systems, computer networks and Network measurement.

• Google Scholar page
  • http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ue5-MRAAAAAJ&hl=en
• Github page
  • https://github.com/sora/

Current Research

• NIC Offloading Architecture for Precise Packet Timing Cotrol

  Target Applications
  • Software-Defined Precise Network benchmarking
  • Hardware-level traffic control with software processing on end-host and middlebox
  Conferences
  • Toward a Precision Network Scripting with a User-Programmable Dataplane (USENIX NSDI'14 Demo and Poster)
  • EtherPIPE: an ethernet character device for network scripting (ACM HotSDN'13)
  Implementations
  • FPGA-based NIC implementation: https://github.com/sora/ethpipe
  • Character-based Linux Device Driver: https://github.com/sora/ethpipe_driver

Other Projects (ongoing)

• NIC-type FPGA-based Network Tester

  Implementations
  • Ethernet-1G/10G (Lattice ECP3versa, Xilinx KC705): https://github.com/Murailab-arch/magukara

• Packet Character Device for Linux

  Implementations
  • https://github.com/sora/pktdev

Knowledge and Experiences

1. Application development using C/Python/Perl/Javascript
2. FPGA development (Xilinx/Lattice, Verilog-HDL, Ethernet/PCI Express TLP)
3. Linux kernel development (High-performance NIC device driver and kernel modules)
4. Extensive experience in designing and developing Web-based applications by using Linux/FreeBSD, Apache, node.js, Ruby, Javascript, JQuery and others
5. Network and Server operations (Router: Cisco, OS: Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD, Services: WWW/Mail/DNS, Firewall, etc)

Computing Employment Experience

1. 2004 - 3 years, (Part-time) System Engineer//maintenance assistant of a computer cluster (in TOP500 ranking) at Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratory (SIDL), Tokyo, Japan
2. 2005, STM (Shownet Team Member) in Interop Tokyo 2005, Chiba, Japan
3. 2006 - 1 year, (Part-time) System Engineer//Maintenance assistant of a computer cluster at Sony, Tokyo, Japan
4. 2008 - 3 months, Internship at LIP6 Networks and Performance Analysis group, UPMC Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France
5. 2009 - current, (Part-time) Research Assistant at IIJ Innovation Institute, Tokyo, Japan
6. 2014 - current, Research Assistant at KEIO University, Tokyo, Japan

Publications

• Book

  • Akimichi, Yohei Kuga., Shape of the Internet, Publisher:Ohmsha, ISBN:978-4-274-06824-9, (in japanese)

• Journal

  • Yohei Kuga, Takeshi Matsuya, Hiroaki Hazeyama, Kenjiro Cho, Rodney Van Meter, Osamu Nakamura. A Packet I/O Architecture for Shell Script-based Packet Processing., IEEE China Communications, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 1--11, Feb. 2014.
  • Takeshi Matsuya, Yohei Kuga. PC Acceleration using FPGAs. KEIO SFC journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2014 (Invited paper, in Japanese).
  • Yohei Kuga, Kenjiro Cho, Osamu Nakamura, Jun Murai., Visualization of Asian AS topology evolution, JSSST, No.2, Volume 30, 2013 (in japanese).
  • Takeshi Matsuya, Yohei Kuga, Rodney Van Meter, Shigeya Suzuki, Hideaki Yoshifuji, Jun Murai. Full pipelining for low-latency IP forwarding. IEICE Trans. on Communications, Vol. J96-B, No. 10, pp. 1095-1103, Oct. 2013 (in Japanese).

• Conference and workshop

  • Takeshi Matsuya, Yohei Kuga, Hideaki Yoshifuji, Rodney Van Meter, Jun Murai., IP-NUMA for low-latency communication. ACM CFI'14 Proceedings of The Ninth International Conference on Future Internet Technologies, New York, NY, USA, 2014, ACM.
  • Yohei Kuga, Takeshi Matsuya, Hiroaki Hazeyama, Kenjiro Cho, Rodney Van Meter, Osamu Nakamura., Toward a Precision Network Scripting with a User-Programmable Dataplane. USENIX NSDI Poster and Demo: 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2014, USENIX.
  • Yohei Kuga, Takeshi Matsuya, Hiroaki Hazeyama, Kenjiro Cho, Osamu Nakamura., EtherPIPE: An Ethernet Character Device for Network Scripting. ACM HotSDN: Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking, pages 61--66, New York, NY, USA, 2013, ACM.
  • Yuta Tokusashi, Takeshi Matsuya, Yohei Kuga, Jun Murai., Improving the Naturalness of Internet Video Conversation using a Low-Latency Pipeline. DICOMO: Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium., JP, 2013 (in Japanese).
  • Yohei Kuga, Takeshi Matsuya, Hiroaki Hazeyama, Osamu Nakamura., Toward flexible network tester with FPGA. IEICE Technical committee on Internet Architecture 2012, JP, 2012 (in Japanese).
  • Katsuhiro Horiba, Yohei Kuga, Hiroaki Hazeyama, Akira Kato., ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF IP OPTION HEADER TRANSPARENCY FROM COVERT CHANNEL POINT OF VIEW. APAN: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC ADVANCED NETWORK, 2012.
  • Yohei Kuga, Kenjiro Cho, Osamu Nakamura., Comparison of Regional AS Topology Structures. JSSST WIT workshop, JP, 2012 (in Japanese).
  • Yohei Kuga, Kenjiro Cho, Osamu Nakamura., On Inferring Regional AS Topologies. ACM AINTEC: Proceedings of the 4th Asian Conference on Internet Engineering, pages 37--38, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM.

Education

• 2009-current
  • A Ph.D. student at Jun Murai laboratory
  • Graduate School of Media and Governance (Cyber Informatics Course), Keio University, Japan
• 2007-2009
  • A master student at Jun Murai laboratory
  • Graduate School of Media and Governance (Cyber Informatics Course), Keio University, Japan
• 2003-2007
  • A bachelor student, Keio University
  • Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University, Japan

Non-Computing Experience

• 2001, Join the World Solar Challenge 2001, completed the course and lead–acid battery class 1st, Darwin to Adelaide (about 3,000 Km), Australia