June 20, 2024 | Victor Bahl

Software-driven wide area network (SWAN) enables central management and control of network infrastructure to improve reliability and efficiency. A Microsoft researcher describes its journey from a research idea to a foundational system for Microsoft Azure.

April 16, 2024 | Ranveer Chandra

Microsoft at NDSI 2024: Discoveries and implementations in networked systems Topics range from 5G, space, datacenters, and wide-area networking to applications in artificial intelligence, security, video conferencing, and gaming. Learn more about the discoveries and advances we're making with networked…

September 14, 2023 | Ranveer Chandra, Eashan Gupta, Ilias Marinos, Anuj Kalia, Francis Y. Yan, Rohan Gandhi, Venkat Padmanabhan, Sreangsu Acharyya, Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla, and Dave Maltz

Editor’s note, Sept. 19, 2023 – The number of papers accepted at SIGCOMM was updated to correct a factual error. Modern applications heavily rely on robust network infrastructure, requiring continuous innovation. In this evolving landscape, Microsoft is at the forefront,…

April 12, 2023

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity…

February 26, 2019 | Victor Bahl

Researchers and engineers from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure have contributed nine scientific papers to the technical program of the 16th Annual USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation – NSDI ‘19 – to be held in Boston, Massachusetts…

October 19, 2018 | Victor Bahl

I vividly remember October 29, 2008. I had invited colleagues from academia and industry to Building 99, home of Microsoft Research, for a daylong meeting to discuss the future of mobile and cloud computing. My friends flew to Redmond, Washington,…

August 21, 2018 | Yibo Zhu

Microsoft Research is actively developing technologies as we continually strive to make our network and online services the most performant and efficient on the planet and this includes openly sharing our progress in advancing the state of the art with…

June 6, 2018

“Growing up, my mom was a programmer with a computer science degree at a time when there was no computer science department in Romania,” remembers Microsoft senior researcher Stefan Saroiu with a smile that is palpable over the telephone. As…

May 15, 2018

Microsoft Research further bolsters its research force this month, welcoming Landon Cox to the Mobility and Networking Group as Senior Researcher.