Bio


McKeown researches techniques to improve the Internet. Most of this work has focused on the architecture, design, analysis, and implementation of high-performance Internet switches and routers. More recently, his interests have broadened to include network architecture, backbone network design, congestion control; and how the Internet might be redesigned if we were to start with a clean slate.

Academic Appointments


Honors & Awards


  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
  • Honorary PhD, ETH (Zurich) (2014)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, ACM Sigcomm (2012)
  • Fellow, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) (2010)
  • Computers and Communications Award, IEEE Koji Kobayashi (2009)
  • ACM Fellow Lovelace Medal, British Computer Society (2007)
  • Fellow, IEEE (2005)
  • Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (2005)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations


  • Board Member, P4 Language Consortium (P4.org) (2014 - Present)
  • Board Member, Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) (2013 - Present)
  • Board Member, Open Networking Foundation (ONF) (2010 - Present)

Professional Education


  • PhD, UC Berkeley (1995)

2023-24 Courses


Stanford Advisees


All Publications


  • Using Deep Programmability to Put Network Owners in Control ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Foster, N., McKeown, N., Rexford, J., Parulkar, G., Peterson, L., Sunay, O. 2020; 50 (4): 82–88
  • Sizing Router Buffers (Redux) ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW McKeown, N., Appenzeller, G., Keslassy, I. 2019; 49 (5): 69–74
  • From Ethane to SDN and Beyond ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Casado, M., McKeown, N., Shenker, S. 2019; 49 (5): 92–95
  • Learning Networking by Reproducing Research Results ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Yan, L., McKeown, N. 2017; 47 (2): 19–26
  • Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Bosshart, P., Daly, D., Gibb, G., Izzard, M., McKeown, N., Rexford, J., Schlesinger, C., Talayco, D., Vahdat, A., Varghese, G., Walker, D. 2014; 44 (3): 87-95
  • Updating the theory of buffer sizing PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Spang, B., Arslan, S., McKeown, N. 2021; 151
  • Democratizing the Network Edge ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Peterson, L., Anderson, T., Katti, S., McKeown, N., Parulkar, G., Rexford, J., Satyanarayanan, M., Sunay, O., Vandat, A. 2019; 49 (2): 31–36
  • Frequency Stabilized Lasers for Coherent Fiber Interconnects in the Datacenter Blumenthal, D. J., Ballani, H., Behunin, R., Bowers, J. E., Costa, P., Lenoski, D., McKeown, N., Morton, P., Papp, S. B., Rakich, P. T., IEEE IEEE. 2019
  • The P4 -> NetFPGA Workflow for Line-Rate Packet Processing Ibanez, S., Brebner, G., McKeown, N., Zilberman, N., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 1–9
  • The PyramidSnapshot Challenge: Understanding student process from visual output of programs Yan, L., McKeown, N., Piech, C., Assoc Comp Machinery ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 119–25
  • The Case for a Network Fast Path to the CPU Ibanez, S., Shahbaz, M., McKeown, N., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 52–59
  • Event-Driven Packet Processing Ibanez, S., Antichi, G., Brebner, G., McKeown, N., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 133–40
  • p4v: practical verification for programmable data planes SIGCOMM '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication Liu, J., Hallahan, W., Schlesinger, C., Sharif, M., Lee, J., Soulé, R., Wang, H., Caşcaval, C., McKeown, N., Foster, N. 2018: 490-503

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3230543.3230582

  • TMOSS: Using Intermediate Assignment Work to Understand Excessive Collaboration in Large Classes Yan, L., McKeown, N., Sahami, M., Piech, C., Assoc Comp Machinery ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2018: 110–15
  • Virtualized Congestion Control Cronkite-Ratcliff, B., Bergman, A., Vargaftik, S., Ravi, M., McKeown, N., Abraham, I., Keslassy, I., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2016: 230–43
  • Packet Transactions: High-Level Programming for Line-Rate Switches Sivaraman, A., Cheung, A., Budiu, M., Kim, C., Alizadeh, M., Balakrishnan, H., Varghese, G., McKeown, N., Licking, S., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2016: 15–28
  • Programmable Packet Scheduling at Line Rate Sivaraman, A., Subramanian, S., Alizadeh, M., Chole, S., Chuang, S., Agrawal, A., Balakrishnan, H., Edsall, T., Katti, S., McKeown, N., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2016: 44–57
  • Neutral Net Neutrality Yiakoumis, Y., Katti, S., McKeown, N., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2016: 483–96
  • PISCES: A Programmable, Protocol-Independent Software Switch Shahbaz, M., Choi, S., Pfaff, B., Kim, C., Feamster, N., McKeown, N., Rexford, J., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2016: 525–38
  • Flow Caching for High Entropy Packet Fields ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN) Shelly, N., Jackson, E. J., Koponen, T., McKeown, N., Rajahalme, J. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2014
  • A Buffer-Based Approach to Rate Adaptation: Evidence from a Large Video Streaming Service SIGCOMM Conference Huang, T., Johari, R., McKeown, N., Trunnell, M., Watson, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2014: 187–98
  • OSNT: Open Source Network Tester IEEE NETWORK Antichi, G., Shahbaz, M., Geng, Y., Zilberman, N., Covington, A., Bruyere, M., McKeown, N., Feamster, N., Felderman, B., Blott, M., Moore, A. W., Owezarski, P. 2014; 28 (5): 6-12
  • BeHop: A Testbed for Dense WiFi Networks MOBILE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW Yiakoumis, Y., Bansal, M., Covington, A., van Reijendam, J., Katti, S., McKeown, N. 2014; 18 (3): 71–80
  • Automatic Test Packet Generation IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Zeng, H., Kazemian, P., Varghese, G., McKeown, N. 2014; 22 (2): 554-566
  • Maturing of OpenFlow and Software-defined Networking through deployments COMPUTER NETWORKS Kobayashi, M., Seetharaman, S., Parulkar, G., Appenzeller, G., Little, J., van Reijendam, J., Weissmann, P., McKeown, N. 2014; 61: 151-175
  • Enlarging the SIGCOMM Tent ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW McKeown, N. 2014; 44 (1): 63-65
  • Using Network Knowledge to Improve Workload Performance in Virtualized Data Centers Erickson, D., Heller, B., McKeown, N., Rosenblum, M., IEEE IEEE. 2014: 185–94
  • Rethinking IP Core Networks JOURNAL OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. 2013; 5 (12): 1431-1442
  • pFabric: Minimal Near-Optimal Datacenter Transport SIGCOMM Conference Alizadeh, M., Yang, S., Sharif, M., Katti, S., McKeown, N., Prabhakar, B., Shenker, S. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2013: 435–46
  • Forwarding Metamorphosis: Fast Programmable Match-Action Processing in Hardware for SDN SIGCOMM Conference Bosshart, P., Gibb, G., Kim, H., Varghese, G., McKeown, N., Izzard, M., Mujica, F., Horowitz, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2013: 99–110
  • Rethinking IP Core Networks Journal of Optical Communications and Networking Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. 2013: 12
  • Scheduling Packets over Multiple Interfaces while Respecting User Preferences Yap, K., Huang, T., Yiakoumis, Y., Chinchali, S., McKeown, N., Katti, S., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2013: 109–20
  • Design Principles for Packet Parsers 9th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS) Gibb, G., Varghese, G., Horowitz, M., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2013: 13–24
  • Real Time Network Policy Checking using Header Space Analysis Kazemian, P., Chang, M., Zeng, H., Varghese, G., McKeown, N., Whyte, S. 2013
  • Architecture for an Open Source Network Tester Shahbaz, M., Antichi, G., Geng, Y., Zilberman, N., Covington, A., Bruyere, M., Feamster, N., McKeown, N., Felderman, B., Blott, M., Moore, A. W., Owezarski, P., IEEE IEEE. 2013: 123-+
  • Design Principles for Packet Parsers Gibb, G., Varghese, G., Horowitz, M., McKeown, N. 2013
  • Late-binding: how to lose fewer packets during handoff Yap, K., Huang, T., Yiakoumis, Y., McKeown, N., Katti, S. 2013
  • Forwarding metamorphosis: fast programmable match-action processing in hardware for SDN Bosshart, P., Gibb, G., Kim, H. S., Varghese, G., McKeown, N., Izzard, M. 2013
  • Downton Abbey Without the Hiccups: Buffer-Based Rate Adaptation for HTTP Video Streaming Huang, T., Johari, R., McKeown, N. 2013
  • Leveraging SDN Layering to Systematically Troubleshoot Networks Heller, B., Scott, C., McKeown, N., Shenker, S., Wundsam, A., Zeng, H. 2013
  • pFabric: minimal near-optimal datacenter transport Alizadeh, M., Yang, S., Sharif, M., Katti, S., McKeown, N., Prabhakar, B. 2013
  • The Controller Placement Problem COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Heller, B., Sherwood, R., McKeown, N. 2012; 42 (4): 473-478
  • Making Use of All the Networks Around Us: A Case Study in Android COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Yap, K., Huang, T., Kobayashi, M., Yiakoumis, Y., McKeown, N., Katti, S., Parulkar, G. 2012; 42 (4): 455-460
  • SDN Based Unified Control Architecture 25th IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2012: 778–779
  • Why OpenFlow/SDN Can Succeed Where GMPLS Failed 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications (ECOC) Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2012
  • Why OpenFlow/SDN Can Succeed Where GMPLS Failed ECOC Technical Digest Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. 2012: 3
  • Maturing of OpenFlow and Software Dened Networking through Deployments Elsevier Kobayashi, M., Seetharaman, S., Parulkar, G., Appenzeller, G., van Reijendam, J. J., Weissmann, P., McKeown, N. W. 2012; 14: 50
  • Reproducible Network Experiments using Container Based Emulation Handigol, N., Heller, B., Jeyakumar, V., Lantz, B., McKeown, N. 2012
  • Putting Home Users in Charge of their Network Yiakoumis, Y., Huang, T., Yap, K., Katti, S., Johari, R., McKeown, N. 2012
  • Automatic Test Packet Generation Zeng, H., Kazemian, P., Varghese, G., McKeown, N. 2012
  • Outsourcing Network Functionality Gibb, G., Zeng, H., McKeown, N. 2012
  • Confused, Timid, and Unstable: Picking a Video Streaming Rate is Hard Huang, T., Handigol, N., Heller, B., McKeown, N., Johari, R. 2012
  • Where is the Debugger for my Software-Defined Network? HotSDN 2012, Helsinki, Finland (Best Student Presentation Award) Handigol, N., Heller, B., Jeyakumar, V., Mazieres, D., McKeown, N. 2012: 6
  • Deconstructing Datacenter Packet Transport 11th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) Alizadeh, M., Yang, S., Katti, S., McKeown, N., Prabhakar, B., Shenker, S. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2012: 133–138
  • Multi-Server Generalized Processor Sharing 24th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) Yap, K., McKeown, N., Katti, S. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2012: 161–168
  • MPLS-TE and MPLS VPNs with OpenFlow COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Sharafat, A. R., Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. 2011; 41 (4): 452-453
  • Optimizing a Virtualized Data Center COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Erickson, D., Heller, B., Yang, S., Chu, J., Ellithorpe, J., McKeown, N., Parulkar, G., Rosenblum, M., Whyte, S., Stuart, S. 2011; 41 (4): 478-479
  • INTERPRETATION OF REFLECTANCE SPECTRA OF CLAY MINERAL-SILICA MIXTURES: IMPLICATIONS FOR MARTIAN CLAY MINERALOGY AT MAWRTH VALLIS CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS McKeown, N. K., Bishop, J. L., Cuadros, J., Hillier, S., Amador, E., Makarewicz, H. D., Parente, M., Silver, E. A. 2011; 59 (4): 400-415
  • Architecting for Innovation COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Koponen, T., Shenker, S., Balakrishnan, H., Feamster, N., Ganichev, I., Ghodsi, A., Godfrey, P. B., McKeown, N., Parulkar, G., Raghavan, B., Rexford, J., Arianfar, S., Kuptsov, D. 2011; 41 (3): 24-36
  • Integrated Photonics for Low-Power Packet Networking IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS Blumenthal, D. J., Barton, J., Beheshti, N., Bowers, J. E., Burmeister, E., Coldren, L. A., Dummer, M., Epps, G., Fang, A., Ganjali, Y., Garcia, J., Koch, B., Lal, V., Lively, E., Mack, J., Masanovic, M., McKeown, N., Nguyen, K., Nicholes, S. C., Park, H., Stamenic, B., Tauke-Pedretti, A., Poulsen, H., Sysak, M. 2011; 17 (2): 458-471
  • Application-Aware Aggregation and Traffic Engineering in a Converged Packet-Circuit Network Das, S., Yiakoumis, Y., Parulkar, Guru, M., Singh, P., Getachew, D., Desai, P. D., McKeown, N. W. 2011
  • Slicing Home Networks Yiakoumis, Y., Yap, K., Katti, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. 2011
  • Separating Authentication, Access and Accounting: A Case Study with OpenWiFi Stanford University NEC OPENFLOW-TR Yap, K., Yiakoumis, Y., Kobayashi, M., Katti, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. 2011: 6
  • Initial thoughts on custom network processing via waypoint services Gibb, G., Zeng, H., McKeown, N. 2011
  • MPLS with a Simple OPEN Control Plane Das, S., Sharafat, A. R., Parulkar, Guru, M., McKeown, N. 2011
  • Ripcord: A Modular Platform for Data Center Networking ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conference 2010 Heller, B., Erickson, D., McKeown, N., Griffith, R., Ganichev, I., Shenker, S., Zarifis, K., Moon, D., Whyte, S., Stuart, S. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2010: 457–58
  • Optical Packet Buffers for Backbone Internet Routers IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Beheshti, N., Burmeister, E., Ganjali, Y., Bowers, J. E., Blumenthal, D. J., McKeown, N. 2010; 18 (5): 1599-1609
  • OpenRoads: Empowering Research in Mobile Networks COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Yap, K., Kobayashi, M., Sherwood, R., Huang, T., Chan, M., Handigol, N., McKeown, N. 2010; 40 (1): 125-126
  • Can the Production Network Be the Testbed? Sherwood, R., Gibb, G., Yap, K., Appenzeller, G., Casado, M., McKeown, N. 2010
  • A Network in a Laptop: Rapid Prototyping for Software-Defined Networks. Lantz, B., Heller, B., McKeown, N. 2010
  • ElasticTree: Saving Energy in Data Center Networks Heller, B., Seetharaman, S., Mahadevan, P., Yiakoumis, Y., Sharma, P., Banerjee, S., McKeown, N. W. 2010
  • Towards Software-Friendly Networks Yap, K., Huang, T., Dodson, B., Lam, Monica, S., McKeown, N. 2010
  • PhoneNet: a Phone-to-Phone Network for Group Communication within an Administrative Domain Huang, T., Yap, K., Dodson, B., Lam, Monica, S., McKeown, N. 2010
  • OpenPipes: Making Distributed Hardware Systems Easier. Gibb, G., McKeown, N. 2010
  • Blueprint for Introducing Innovation into Wireless Mobile Networks Chan, M., Handigol, N., McKeown, N., Parulkar, G. 2010
  • FPGA Research Design Platform Fuels Network Advances Xcell Journal, Fourth Quarter Blott, M., Ellithorpe, J., McKeown, N., Vissers, K., Zeng, H. 2010: 6
  • Delivering Capacity for the Mobile Internet by Stitching Together Networks Yap, K., Katti, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. 2010
  • Experimental Demonstration of OpenFlow Control of Packet and Circuit Switches Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC)/Collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers (NFOEC) Gudla, V., Das, S., Shastri, A., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N., Kazovsky, L., Yamashita, S. IEEE. 2010
  • Packet and Circuit Network Convergence with OpenFlow Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC)/Collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers (NFOEC) Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N., Singh, P., Getachew, D., Ong, L. IEEE. 2010
  • Rethinking Enterprise Network Control IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Casado, M., Freedman, M. J., Pettit, J., Luo, J., Gude, N., McKeown, N., Shenker, S. 2009; 17 (4): 1270-1283
  • Delegating Network Security with More Information 1st Workshop Research on Enterprise Networking Naous, J., Stutsman, R., Mazieres, D., McKeown, N., Zeldovich, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009: 19–26
  • Encouraging Reusable Network Hardware Design IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education Covington, G. A., Gibb, G., Naous, J., Lockwood, J. W., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2009: 29–32
  • Unifying Packet and Circuit Switched Networks IEEE Globecom Workshops (Gc Workshops 2009) Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2009: 33–38
  • Simple Unified Control for Packet and Circuit Networks Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meeting Das, S., Parulkar, G., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2009: 147–148
  • Buffer Sizing results for RCP Congestion Control under Connection Arrivals and Departures COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Lakshmikantha, A., Srikant, R., Dukkipati, N., McKeown, N., Beck, C. 2009; 39 (1): 6-15
  • Viewpoint Scaling the Academic Publication Process to Internet Scale COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Crowcroft, J., Keshav, S., McKeown, N. 2009; 52 (1): 27-30
  • A Packet Generator on the NetFPGA Platform 17th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines Covington, G. A., Gibb, G., Lockwood, J. W., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2009: 235–238
  • The Stanford OpenRoads Deployment 4th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2009) Yap, K., Kobayashi, M., Underhill, D., Seetharaman, S., Kazemian, P., McKeown, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009: 59–66
  • NetFPGA - An open platform for teaching how to build gigabit-rate network switches and routers IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION Gibb, G., Lockwood, J. W., Naous, J., Hartke, P., McKeown, N. 2008; 51 (3): 364-369
  • NOX: Towards an operating system for networks COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Gude, N., Koponen, T., Pettit, J., Pfaff, B., Casado, M., McKeown, N., Shenker, S. 2008; 38 (3): 105-110
  • Designing packet buffers for router linecards IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Iyer, S., Kompella, R. R., McKeown, N. 2008; 16 (3): 705-717
  • OpenFlow: Enabling innovation in campus networks COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW McKeown, N., Anderson, T., Balakrishnan, H., Parulkar, G., Peterson, L., Rexford, J., Shenker, S., Turner, J. 2008; 38 (2): 69-74
  • Experimental Study of Router Buffer Sizing 8th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference Beheshti, N., Ganjali, Y., Ghobadi, M., McKeown, N., Salmon, G. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2008: 197–210
  • Performing Time-Sensitive Network Experiments Beheshti, N., Ganjali, Y., Ghobadi, M., McKeown, N., Naous, J., Salmon, G. 2008
  • The Effectiveness of Whitelisting: a User-Study Erickson, D., Casado, M., McKeown, N. 2008
  • Implementing an OpenFlow Switch on the NetFPGA platform Naous, J., Erickson, D., Covington, A., Appenzeller, G., McKeown, N. 2008
  • Designing a Fault-Tolerant Network Using Valiant Load-Balancing Zhang-Shen, R., McKeown, N. 2008
  • Obtaining high throughput in networks with tiny buffers 16th International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2008) Beheshti, N., Ganjali, Y., Goel, A., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2008: 72–76
  • Designing a fault-tolerant network using valiant load-balancing 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2008) Zhang-Shen, R., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2008: 301–305
  • Guaranteeing quality of service to peering traffic 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2008) Zhang-Shen, R., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2008: 2146–2152
  • Stability analysis of explicit congestion control protocols IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS Balakrishnan, H., Dukkipati, N., McKeown, N., Tomlin, C. J. 2007; 11 (10): 823-825
  • Can Overlay hosting services make ip ossification irrelevant cabernet.cs.princeton.edu Turner, J., McKeown, N. 2007: 4
  • Packet Scheduling in Optical FIFO Buffers High-Speed Networking Workshop (In Conjunction with IEEE Infocom 2007), Anchorage, AK Beheshti, N., Ganjali, Y., McKeown, N. 2007: 4
  • Building a RCP (Rate control protocol) test network 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects Dukkipati, N., Gibb, G., McKeown, N., Zhu, J. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2007: 91–98
  • NetFPGA - An open platform for gigabit-rate network switching and routing IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education Lockwood, J. W., McKeown, N., Watson, G., Gibb, G., Hartke, P., Naous, J., Raghuraman, R., Luo, H. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2007: 160–161
  • Prototyping fast, simple, secure switches for ethane 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects Luo, J., Pettit, J., Casado, M., Lockwood, J., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2007: 73–79
  • Experimenting with Buffer Sizing in Routers Beheshti, N., Ganjali, Y., Naous, J., McKeown, N. 2007
  • Update on buffer sizing in Internet routers COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Ganjali, Y., McKeown, N. 2006; 36 (5): 67-70
  • Routers with very small buffers IEEE INFOCOM 2006 Conference/25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Enachescu, M., Ganjali, Y., Goel, A., McKeown, N., Roughgarden, T. IEEE. 2006: 1833–1843
  • The Clack Graphical Router: Visualizing Network Software Wendlandt, D., Casado, M., Tarjan, P., McKeown, N. 2006
  • SANE: A protection architecture for enterprise networks 15th USENIX Security Symposium Casado, M., Garfinkel, T., Akella, A., Freedman, M. J., Boneh, D., McKeown, N., Shenker, S. USENIX ASSOC. 2006: 137–151
  • Buffer sizing in all-optical packet switches Conference on Optical Fiber Communications/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference Beheshti, N., Ganjali, Y., Rajaduray, R., Blumenthal, D., McKeown, N. OPTICAL SOC AMERICA. 2006: 1367–1369
  • RCP-AC: Congestion control to make flows complete quickly in any environment IEEE INFOCOM 2006 Conference/25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Dukkipati, N., McKeown, N., Fraser, A. G. IEEE. 2006: 3002–3006
  • Why flow-completion time is the right metric for congestion control COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Dukkipati, N., McKeown, N. 2006; 36 (1): 59-62
  • Part I: Buffer sizes for core routers COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Wischik, D., McKeown, N. 2005; 35 (3): 75-78
  • Part III: Routers with very small buffers COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Enachescu, M., Ganjali, Y., Goel, A., McKeown, N., Roughgarden, T. 2005; 35 (3): 83-89
  • The throughput of a buffered crossbar switch IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS Lin, M., McKeown, N. 2005; 9 (5): 465-467
  • Practical algorithms for performance guarantees in buffered crossbars 24th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies Chuang, S. T., Iyer, S., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2005: 981–991
  • Teaching Networking Hardware Casado, M., Watson, G., McKeown, N. 2005
  • Building Packet Buffers with Interleaved Memories Shrimali, G., McKeown, N. 2005
  • The Virtual Network System Casado, M., McKeown, N. 2005
  • Building packet buffers using interleaved memories IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2005) Shrimali, G., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2005: 1–5
  • Using hardware to configure a load balanced switch 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects Arekapudi, S., Chuang, S. T., Keslassy, I., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2005: 70–78
  • Optimal load-balancing 24th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies Keslassy, I., Chang, C. S., McKeown, N., Lee, D. S. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2005: 1712–1722
  • Processor sharing flows in the Internet 13th International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2005) Dukkipati, N., Kobayashi, M., Rui, Z. S., McKeown, N. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 2005: 271–285
  • Reconfigurable networking hardware: A classroom tool 13th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects Casado, M., Watson, G., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2005: 151–157
  • Designing a predictable Internet backbone with Valiant Load-balancing 13th International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2005) Rui, Z. S., McKeown, N. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 2005: 178–192
  • Routing in a highly dynamic topology 2nd Annual IEEE-Communications-Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2005) Ganjali, Y., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2005: 164–175
  • Sizing router buffers ACM/SIGCOMM 2004 Conference on Computer Communications Appenzeller, G., Keslassy, I., McKeown, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2004: 281–92
  • A load-balanced switch with an arbitrary number of linecards 23rd Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies Keslassy, I., Chuang, S. T., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2004: 2007–2016
  • Recent Results on Sizing Router Buffers Appenzeller, G., McKeown, N., Sommers, J., Barford, P. 2004
  • Configuring a load-balanced switch in hardware 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects Arekapudi, S., Chuang, S. T., Keslassy, I., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2004: 48–53
  • Buffers: How we fell in love with them and why we need a divorce. 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects McKeown, N. IEEE. 2004: 1–1
  • Designing packet buffers with statistical guarantees 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects Shrimali, G., Keslassy, I., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2004: 54–60
  • Scaling Internet routers using optics SIGCOMM 2003 Conference Keslassy, I., Chuang, S. T., Yu, K., Miller, D., Horowitz, M., Solgaard, O., McKeown, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2003: 189–200
  • Maximum size matching is unstable for any packet switch IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS Keslassy, I., Rui, Z. S., McKeown, N. 2003; 7 (10): 496-498
  • Using constraint sets to achieve delay bounds in CIOQ switches IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS Iyer, S., McKeown, N. 2003; 7 (6): 275-277
  • Analysis of the parallel packet switch architecture IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Iyer, S., McKeown, N. W. 2003; 11 (2): 314-324
  • Optics inside Routers McKeown, N. 2003
  • The performance of circuit switching in the Internet OSA Journal of Optical Networking Molinero-Fernandez, P., McKeown, N. 2003; 2 (4): 14
  • An Approach to Alleviate Link Overload as Observed on an IP Backbone Iyer, S., Bhattacharrya, S., Taft, N., Diot, C., McKeown, N. 2003
  • Is IP going to take over the world (of communications)? 1st HotNets Workshop Molinero-Fernandez, P., McKeown, N., Zhang, H. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2003: 113–18
  • Routers with a single stage of buffering ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Conference Iyer, S., Zhang, R., McKeown, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2002: 251–64
  • TCP switching: Exposing circuits to IP IEEE MICRO Molinero-Fernandez, P., McKeown, N. 2002; 22 (1): 82-89
  • The Stanford Virtual Router: a teaching tool and network simulator ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Casado, M., Vijayaraghavan, V., Appenzeller, G., McKeown, N. 2002; 32 (3): 1
  • Maintaining packet order in two-stage switches 21st Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE-Computer-and-Communications-Societies Keslassy, I., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2002: 1032–1041
  • Maintaining statistics counters in router line cards IEEE MICRO Shah, D., Iyer, S., Prabhakar, B., McKeown, N. 2002; 22 (1): 76-81
  • On the speedup required for a multicast parallel packet switch IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS Iyer, S., McKeown, N. 2001; 5 (6): 269-271
  • Fast IP packet forwarding and classification for next generation Internet services IEEE NETWORK Buddhikot, M. M., McKeown, N., Varghese, G. 2001; 15 (2): 6-7
  • Algorithms for packet classification IEEE NETWORK Gupta, P., McKeown, N. 2001; 15 (2): 24-32
  • Analysis of a statistics counter architecture Symposium on High Performance Interconnects Shah, D., Iyer, S., Prabhakar, B., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2001: 107–111
  • A 2.5Tb/s Switch Core with LCS Interface McKeown, N., Calamvokis, C., Chuang, S. 2001
  • Analysis of Scheduling Algorithms That Provide 100% Throughput in Input-Queued Switches Keslassy, I., McKeown, N. 2001
  • Congestion Control and Periodic Behavior Gilbert, A., Joo, Y., McKeown, N. 2001
  • Analysis of a memory architecture for fast packet buffers IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2001) Iyer, S., Kompella, R. R., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2001: 368–373
  • Monitoring very high speed links 1st ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop (IMW 2001) Iannaccone, G., Diot, C., Graham, I., McKeown, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2001: 267–271
  • Making parallel packet switches practical 20th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE-Computer-Society/IEEE-Communication-Society Iyer, S., McKeown, N. IEEE. 2001: 1680–1687
  • TCP switching: Exposing circuits to IP Symposium on High Performance Interconnects Molinero-Fernandez, P., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2001: 43–48
  • Scalable high-speed switches/routers with QoS support IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE Hamdi, M., McKeown, N. 2000; 38 (12): 61-61
  • Classifying packets with hierarchical intelligent cuttings 7th IEEE Hot Interconnects Symposium Gupta, P., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2000: 34–41
  • Packet Classification using Hierarchical Intelligent Cuttings Hot Interconnects VII, This paper is also available in IEEE Micro Gupta, P., McKeown, N. 2000; 20 (1): 34-41
  • Analysis of a Packet Switch with Memories Running Slower than the Line Rate Iyer, S., Awadallah, Amr, A., McKeown, N. 2000
  • Dynamic algorithms with worst-case performance for packet classification IFIP-TC6/European Commission International Conference Gupta, P., McKeown, N. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 2000: 528–539
  • On the speedup required for combined input- and output-queued switching AUTOMATICA Prabhakar, B., McKeown, N. 1999; 35 (12): 1909-1920
  • Next-generation IP switches and routers IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS Chao, H. J., Degermark, M., McKeown, N., Tzeng, H. H., Ramaswami, R. 1999; 17 (6): 1009-1012
  • Matching output queueing with a combined input/output-queued switch Infocom 99 Meeting Chuang, S. T., Goel, A., McKeown, N., Prabhakar, B. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC. 1999: 1030–39
  • The iSLIP scheduling algorithm for input-queued switches IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING McKeown, N. 1999; 7 (2): 188-201
  • iSLIP: A Scheduling Algorithm for Input-Queued Switches IEEE Transactions on Networking McKeown, N. 1999; 7 (2): 36
  • Design and Implmentation of a Fast Crossbar Scheduler IEEE Micro Magazine Gupta, P., McKeown, N. 1999: 8
  • A 50 Gb/s 32*32 CMOS crossbar chip using asymmetric serial links Chang, K. K., Chuang, S., McKeown, N., Horowitz, M. 1999
  • Matching output queueing with a combined input output queued switch 18th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 99) Chuang, S. T., Goel, A., McKeown, N., Prabhakar, B. IEEE. 1999: 1169–1178
  • Designing and implementing a fast crossbar scheduler 6th Annual Hot Interconnects Symposium Gupta, P., McKeown, N. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 1999: 20–28
  • Packet classification on multiple fields ACM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM 99) Gupta, P., McKeown, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1999: 147–60
  • The increasingly important interconnect IEEE MICRO McKeown, N., Bailey, C. 1999; 19 (1): 12-13
  • A quantitative comparison of iterative scheduling algorithms for input-queued switches COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS McKeown, N., Anderson, T. E. 1998; 30 (24): 2309-2326
  • Doubling memory bandwidth for network buffers 17th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE-Computer-Society/IEEE-Communications-Society (INFOCOM 98) Joo, Y. M., McKeown, N. I E E E. 1998: 808–815
  • Doubling Memory Bandwidths for Network Buffers Joo, Y., McKeown, N. 1998
  • ATM Input-Buffered Switches with Guaranteed-Rate Property Hung, A., Kesidis, G., McKeown, N. 1998
  • On the speedup required for combined input and output queued switching IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Prabhakar, B., McKeown, N. IEEE. 1998: 165–165
  • A practical scheduling algorithm to achieve 100% throughput in input-queued switches 17th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE-Computer-Society/IEEE-Communications-Society (INFOCOM 98) Mekkittikul, A., McKeown, N. I E E E. 1998: 792–799
  • Routing lookups in hardware at memory access speeds 17th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE-Computer-Society/IEEE-Communications-Society (INFOCOM 98) Gupta, P., Lin, S., McKeown, N. I E E E. 1998: 1240–1247
  • Multicast scheduling for input-queued switches IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS Prabhakar, B., McKeown, N., Ahuja, R. 1997; 15 (5): 855-866
  • A Fast Switched Backplane for a Gigabit Switched Router Business Communications Review McKeown, N. 1997: 30
  • Output-buffer ATM Packet Switching for Integrated-Services Communication Networks Kesidis, G., McKeown, N. 1997
  • A 2 Gb/s Asymmetric Serial Link for High-Bandwidth Packet Switches Chang, Ken, K.-Y., Ellersick, W., Chuang, S., Sidiropoulos, S., Horowitz, M., McKeown, N. 1997
  • Matching Output Queueing with Combined Input and Output Queueing McKeown, N., Prabhakar, B., Zhu, M. 1997
  • A Simulation Study of IP Switching Lin, S., McKeown, N. 1997
  • Scheduling VOQ Switches under Non-Uniform Traffic. CSL Technical Report, CSL-TR 97-747, Stanford University Mekkittikul, A., McKeown, N. 1997: 35
  • Tiny Tera: A packet switch core 4th Annual Hot Interconnects Symposium McKeown, N., IZZARD, M., Mekkittikul, A., Ellersick, W., Horowitz, M. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 1997: 26–33
  • A small high-bandwidth ATM switch Broadband Access Systems Conference Mekkittikul, A., McKeown, N., IZZARD, M. SPIE - INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. 1996: 387–397
  • The Tiny Tera: A Small High-Bandwidth Packet Switch Core McKeown, N., Izzard, M., Mekkittikul, A., Ellersick, B., Horowitz, M. 1996
  • The Tiny Tera: A Small High-Bandwidth ATM Switch McKeown, N., Izzard, M., Mekkittikul, A. 1996
  • A Starvation-free Algorithm for Achieving 100% Throughput in an Input-Queued Switch Mekkittikul, A., McKeown, N. 1996
  • Tetris Models for Multicast Switches Prabhakar, B., McKeown, N., Mairesse, J. 1996
  • Achieving 100% throughput in an input-queued switch 15th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE-Computer-Society/IEEE-Communications-Society on Networking the Next Generation McKeown, N., Anantharam, V., Walrand, J. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 1996: 296–302
  • 8 Tb/s ATM interconnection through optical WDM networks Conference on High-Speed Semiconductor Laser Sources Mekkittikul, A., Sadot, D., Kazovsky, L. G., McKeown, N. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. 1996: 186–198
  • Scheduling multicast cells in an input-queued switch 15th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE-Computer-Society/IEEE-Communications-Society on Networking the Next Generation McKeown, N., Prabhakar, B. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 1996: 271–278
  • BILLING USERS AND PRICING FOR TCP IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS EDELL, R. J., McKeown, N., VARAIYA, P. P. 1995; 13 (7): 1162-1175
  • A Fast Scheduling Algorithm for Input-Queued Switches McKeown, N., Walrand, J. 1995
  • Designing a Multicast Switch Scheduler Prabhakar, B., McKeown, N. 1995
  • SCHEDULING CELLS IN AN INPUT-QUEUED SWITCH ELECTRONICS LETTERS McKeown, N., Varaiya, P., Walrand, J. 1993; 29 (25): 2174-2175
  • Scheduling Cells in an Input-Queued Switch IEE Electronics Letters McKeown, N., Varaiya, P., Walrand, J. 1993: 2174-5
  • THE BAY BRIDGE - A HIGH-SPEED BRIDGE ROUTER IFIP TRANSACTIONS C-COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS McKeown, N., Edell, R., Le, M. T. 1993; 9: 203-218
  • The Bay Bridge: A High Speed Bridge/Router McKeown, N., Edell, R., Le, My, T. 1992
  • AUTOMATIC VEHICLE CONTROL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PATH PROGRAM IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY Shladover, S. E., DESOER, C. A., Hedrick, J. K., Tomizuka, M., Walrand, J., Zhang, W. B., MCMAHON, D. H., HUEI, P., SHEIKHOLESLAM, S., McKeown, N. 1991; 40 (1): 114-130
  • Automatic Vehicle Control Developments in the PATH Program IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Schladover, Steven, E., Desoer, Charles, A., Hedrick, J., Karl, Tomizuka, M., Walrand, J., Zhang, W., McKeown, N. W. 1991; 40 (1): 114-130