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Andrew E. Ferguson, Viktoria Vomhoff, Stefan Geißler, Marcelo Bagnulo Braun, Jesus Omaña Iglesias, Steffen Gebert, Mahesh Marina, Matteo Varvello, Andra Lutu NOMADIX: Disaggregated Data Plane Architecture for Global Cellular Connectivity (accepted, upcoming) (NSDI ’27)
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Ujjwal Pawar*, Andrew E. Ferguson*, Yufeng Xia, Xenofon Foukas, Mahesh K. Marina, Bozidar Radunovic Chronos: Scalable and Cost-Effective Cloud-based RAN Emulation System (2026) (MobiCom ’26)
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Andrew E. Ferguson*, Ujjwal Pawar*, Tianxin Wang, Mahesh K. Marina Campus5G: A Campus Scale Private 5G Open RAN Testbed (2025) (SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR))
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Nitinder Mohan*, Andrew E. Ferguson*, Hendrik Cech*, Rohan Bose, Prakita Rayyan Renatin, Mahesh K. Marina, Jörg Ott A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance (2024) (WWW ’24)
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Andrew E. Ferguson*, Jon Larrea*, Mahesh K. Marina CoreKube: An Efficient, Autoscaling and Resilient Mobile Core System (2023) (MobiCom ’23)
[Best Artifact Award]
Biography
I am a networked systems PhD student in the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. I am advised by Professor Mahesh Marina.
My research focuses on the softwarisation of next-generation mobile networks (5G, 6G, etc.). As mobile networks transition from proprietary hardware to software on general-purpose compute, new opportunities arise, along with major challenges. Softwarisation can transform mobile networks, enabling new use cases and lowering operating costs. However, it remains unclear which long-held assumptions are broken, and how far cloud-computing-style sharing can be pushed.
I am especially interested in the platforms hosting mobile networks, how their architecture and operation shape trade-offs between performance, isolation, and resource sharing. My recent work explores this through cloud computing paradigms and developing a campus-scale private 5G network. Additionally, I am the technical lead for the Tardis student cluster.
Beyond academia, I enjoy exploring the history of technology, with a particular focus on the early days of satellite communication.