Alex Shpiner I received Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 2014. My advisor was Prof. Isaac Keslassy. Currently I am with Mellanox Technologies architecture group.

Contact info:

E-mail: alexshp[at]mellanox.com

About me:

I received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technion in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Isaac Keslassy.

My research interests are in the fields of computer networks and router architectures:

• Congestion control
• Switch scheduling
• Data center networks
• Network processors
• Networks on chip

I was a recipient of a Hasso-Plattner Research School fellowiship.
I also received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management in Technion at 2012.
More information is available on my LinkedIn Page .

Publications:

• Alexander Shpiner and Eitan Zahavi, "Race Cars vs. Trailer Trucks: Switch Buffers Sizing vs. Latency Trade-offs in Data Center Networks," IEEE Hot Interconnects '16, Santa Clara, CA, August 2016.
• Eitan Zahavi, Alexander Shpiner, Ori Rottenstreich, Isaac Keslassy and Avinoam Kolodny, "Links as a Service (LaaS): Guaranteed Tenant Isolation in the Shared Cloud", ANCS '16, Santa Clara, CA, Mar. 2016.
• Alexander Shpiner, Isaac Keslassy and Rami Cohen, "Scaling Multi-Core Network Processors Without the Reordering Bottleneck", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 900-912, 2016.
• Alexander Shpiner, Isaac Keslassy, Carmi Arad, Tal Mizrahi and Yoram Revah, " SAL: Scaling Data Centers using Smart Address Learning," IEEE/IFIP CNSM '14, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 2014. [Extended Technical Report]
• Alexander Shpiner, Eitan Zahavi and Ori Rottenstreich, "The Buffer Size vs. Link Bandwidth Tradeoff in Lossless Networks," IEEE Hot Interconnects '14, Mountain View, CA, August 2014.
• Alexander Shpiner, Isaac Keslassy and Rami Cohen, "Scaling Multi-Core Network Processors Without the Reordering Bottleneck," IEEE HPSR '14, Vancouver, Canada, July 2014. [Extended Technical Report]
• Alexander Shpiner, Erez Kantor, Pu Li, Israel Cidon and Isaac Keslassy, " On the Capacity of Bufferless Networks-on-Chip", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 492-506, Feb. 2015.
• Alexander Shpiner, Tal Mizrahi and Yoram Revah, " Multi-Path Time Synchronization Protocols," IEEE ISPCS '13, Lemgo, Germany, Sep. 2013. (Best Industry Paper Award)
• Alexander Shpiner, Erez Kantor, Pu Li, Israel Cidon and Isaac Keslassy, " On the Capacity of Bufferless Networks-on-Chip," 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Oct. 2012.
• Alexander Shpiner, Isaac Keslassy, Gabi Bracha, Eyal Dagan, Ofer Iny and Eyal Soha, " A Switch-Based Approach to Throughput Collapse and Starvation in Data Centers," Computer Networks, , Vol. 56, No. 14, pp. 3333-3346, 2012.
• Alexander Shpiner and Isaac Keslassy, " Modeling the Interactions of Congestion Control and Switch Scheduling," Computer Networks, , Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 1257-1275, 2011.
• Alexander Shpiner and Isaac Keslassy, " A Switch-Based Approach to Throughput Collapse and Starvation in Data Centers," IEEE IWQoS '10, Beijing, China, June 2010.[slides] (Best Paper Award)
• Alexander Shpiner and Isaac Keslassy, " Modeling the Interactions of Congestion Control and Switch Scheduling," IEEE IWQoS '09, Charleston, SC, July 2009. [slides]

Teaching:

• Spring 2011 - Spring 2013: Teaching Assistant (in charge) in the course Computer Networks and Internet 1 (044334).
• Winter 2011/12 - Present: Project Instructor in the Networked Software Systems Lab.
Project Topics:
• Datacenter Network Protocols Implementation over Software-Defined Networks (OpenFlow)
• Multi-Path Time Synchronization Protocols
• Network Processor Modeling
• Router Performance Experiments
• Winter 2010/11 - Homework Checker in the course Compilation Methods (046266).