Publications

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The Age of DDoScovery: An Empirical Comparison of Industry and Academic DDoS Assessments

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Quantifying Privacy in Cooperative Awareness Services Through Trajectory Reconstruction

Cooperatively creating awareness of the vehicle and its surroundings can improve the safety of the transportation system. Creating such …
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PoT-PolKA: Let the Edge Control the Proof-of-Transit in Path-Aware Networks

This paper presents a scalable and efficient solution for secure network design that involves the selection and verification of network …
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Analyzing Remote Peering Deployment and Its Implications for Internet Routing

Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) have significantly transformed the structure and economics of the Internet by allowing many nearby …
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DDoS2Vec: Flow-Level Characterisation of Volumetric DDoS Attacks at Scale

Volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a severe threat to the Internet for more than two decades. Some …
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Provable Non-Frameability for 5G Lawful Interception

Mobile networks have grown in size and relevance, with novel applications in areas including transportation, finance, and health. The …
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Light, Camera, Actions: characterizing the usage of IXPs' action BGP communities

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) communities, an optional message attribute, allow network operators to tag BGP announcements and act on …
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POSTER: No Doppelgänger: Advancing Mobile Networks Against Impersonation in Adversarial Scenarios

The expansion of mobile network capabilities throughout the decades has increased people’s exposure to the digital world, and the …
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Shoehorn: Towards Portable P4 for Low Cost Hardware

Having a consistent application stack for hardware from multiple vendors allows operators to build simpler, more stable networks. …
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On the Latency Impact of Remote Peering

Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) play an essential role in the Internet, providing a fabric for thousands of Autonomous Systems (ASes) …
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Helix: Traffic Engineering for Multi-Controller SDN

Recent trends in software-defined networking have extended network programmability to the data plane through programming languages such …
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Dynamic Property Enforcement in Programmable Data Planes

Network programmers can currently deploy an arbitrary set of protocols in forwarding devices through data plane programming languages …
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AS-Path Prepending: there is no rose without a thorn

Inbound traffic engineering (ITE)—the process of announcing routes to, e.g., maximize revenue or minimize congestion—is an essential …
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Spoofed Traffic Inference at IXPs: Challenges, Methods and Analysis

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A Survey on the Current Internet Interconnection Practices

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Challenges in Inferring Spoofed Traffic at IXPs

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Decentralized proof of location in vehicular Ad Hoc networks

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Dynamic Property Enforcement in Programmable Data Planes

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Mitigating Position Falsification Attacks in Vehicular Platooning

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Verification of P4 programs in feasible time using assertions

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Dynam-IX: a dynamic interconnection eXchange

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Vouch: A Secure Proof-of-Location Scheme for VANETs

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Research in Security and Privacy in Brazil

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POSTER: Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection eXchange

Internet connectivity is changing. Autonomous Systems (ASes) can now reach hundreds of networks directly through Internet eXchange …
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Picking a Partner: A Fair Blockchain Based Scoring Protocol for Autonomous Systems

We tackle the problem of enabling Autonomous Systems (ASes) to evaluate network providers on the basis of their adherence to Service …
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POSTER: Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection eXchange

Internet connectivity is changing: Autonomous Systems (ASes) can now reach hundreds of networks directly through interconnections at …
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Uncovering Bugs in P4 Programs with Assertion-based Verification

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Effects of colluding Sybil nodes in message falsification attacks for vehicular platooning

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POSTER: Finding vulnerabilities in P4 programs with assertion-based verification

Current trends in SDN extend network programmability to the data plane through the use of programming languages such as P4. In this …
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Achieving minimum bandwidth guarantees and work-conservation in large-scale, SDN-based datacenter networks

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Sandboxing Data Plane Programs for Fun and Profit

This paper describes the design and implementation of a general-purpose compile-time sandbox for P4 data plane programs. Our mechanism …
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NDNrel: A mechanism based on relations among objects to improve the performance of NDN

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Exploiting parallelism in hierarchical content stores for high-speed ICN routers

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Packer: Minimizing multi-resource fragmentation and performance interference in datacenters

—Cloud applications perform rich and complex tasks, with time-varying demands for multiple types of resources (CPU, memory, disk I/O …
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Optimal Service Function Chain Composition in Network Functions Virtualization

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging ini- tiative where virtualization is used to consolidate Network Functions (NFs) …
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On the impact of sybil attacks in cooperative driving scenarios

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PredCloud: Providing predictable network performance in large-scale OpenFlow-enabled cloud platforms through trust-based allocation of resources

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How physical network topologies affect virtual network embedding quality: A characterization study based on ISP and datacenter networks

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ASTORIA: A framework for attack simulation and evaluation in smart grids

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A toolset for efficient privacy-oriented virtual network embedding and its instantiation on SDN/OpenFlow-based substrates

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Providing producer mobility support in NDN through proactive data replication

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Making puzzles green and useful for adaptive identity management in large-scale distributed systems

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Virtual network security: threats, countermeasures, and challenges

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Opportunistic resilience embedding (ORE): Toward cost-efficient resilient virtual networks

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Edge-centric Computing: Vision and Challenges

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Predictor: Providing fine-grained management and predictability in multi-tenant datacenter networks

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Piecing Together the NFV Provisioning Puzzle: Efficient Placement and Chaining of Virtual Network Functions

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Off the Wire Control: Improving the Control Plane Resilience through Cellular Networks

Software Defined Networks simplify network pro- grammability by detaching the control plane from forwarding devices and deploying it …
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IoNCloud: exploring application affinity to improve utilization and predictability in datacenters

The intra-cloud network is typically shared in a best-effort manner, which causes tenant applications to have no actual bandwidth …
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Hierarchical Content Stores in High-Speed ICN Routers

Recent work motivates the design of Information-centric rou- ters that make use of hierarchies of memory to jointly scale in the size …
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CCNrel: Leveraging relations among objects to improve the performance of CCN

Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is a promising architectural approach that focuses on the efficient distribution of uniquely named …
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Survivor: An enhanced controller placement strategy for improving SDN survivability.

In SDN, forwarding devices can only operate cor- rectly while connected to a logically centralized controller. To avoid …
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Slowing down to speed up: Protecting users against massive attacks in content distribution systems

Content Distribution Systems (CDS) are those de- signed to efficiently deliver (to interested parties) a variety of contents. CDS may …
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Reconnecting Partitions on Physical Infrastructures: Towards an Expansion Strategy for Efficient Virtual Network Embedding

One of the research challenges approached recently in the literature is the efficient mapping of virtual networks on top of physical …
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HIPER: Heuristic-based infrastructure expansion through partition reconnection for efficient Virtual Network Embedding

As research in the area of network virtualization continues to advance, there have been numerous efforts to solve the challenge of …
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A heuristic-based algorithm for privacy-oriented virtual network embedding

Network virtualization has become increasingly popular in recent years. It has the potential to allow timely handling of network …
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Trust-based Grouping for Cloud Datacenters: improving security in shared infrastructures

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DoS-resilient virtual networks through multipath embedding and opportunistic recovery

Network virtualization can potentially limit the impact of attacks by isolating traffic from different networks. However, routers and …
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Workflow specification and scheduling with security constraints in hybrid clouds

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Slowing down to speed up: Mitigating collusion attacks in Content Distribution Systems

Content Distribution Systems (CDS) are those designed to efficiently deliver (to interested parties) a variety of contents. CDS may be …
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No more backups: Toward efficient embedding of survivable virtual networks

Although network virtualization can improve security by isolating traffic from different networks, routers and links are still …

Exploring your neighborhood: Comparing connection strategies in swarming networks through evolving graphs

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Characterizing the impact of network substrate topologies on virtual network embedding

Network virtualization is a mechanism that allows the coexistence of multiple virtual networks on top of a single physical substrate. …
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Beyond pollution and taste: A tag-based strategy to increase download quality in P2P file sharing systems

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Make it Green and Useful: Reshaping Puzzles for Identity Management in Large-scale Distributed Systems

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Security-aware optimal resource allocation for virtual network embedding

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Identity management based on adaptive puzzles to protect P2P systems from Sybil attacks

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Disconnecting to connect: Understanding optimistic disconnection in BitTorrent

The significance of BitTorrent motivated various studies focused on modeling and evaluating the protocol charac- teristics and its …
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Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures on BitTorrent

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Characterizing dissemination of illegal copies of content through monitoring of BitTorrent networks

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Beyond network simulators: Fostering novel distributed applications and protocols through extendible design

Simulation has been of paramount importance to the development of novel Internet protocols. Such an approach typically focuses on one …
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Securing P2P systems from Sybil attacks through adaptive identity management

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Observing the BitTorrent universe through Telescopes

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Funnel: Choking Polluters in BitTorrent File Sharing Communities

BitTorrent-based file sharing communities are very popular nowadays. Anecdotal evidence hints that such communi- ties are exposed to …
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Challenging the feasibility of authentication mechanisms for P2P live streaming

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A conservative strategy to protect P2P file sharing systems from pollution attacks

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Flexible and secure service discovery in ubiquitous computing

The realization of ubiquitous computing requires achieving seamless service provisioning for users and devices everywhere. However, …
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Choking polluters in BitTorrent file sharing communities

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AGRADC: An Architecture for Autonomous Deployment and Configuration of Grid Computing Applications

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TorrentLab: Investigating BitTorrent through simulation and live experiments

BitTorrent is probably the most popular file sharing protocol nowadays. Since it is a complex protocol which was created mostly as an …
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Protecting BitTorrent: Design and evaluation of effective countermeasures against DoS attacks

BitTorrent is a P2P file-sharing protocol that can be used to efficiently distribute files such as software updates and digital content …
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Flexible security in peer-to-peer applications: Enabling new opportunities beyond file sharing

Attacking a swarm with a band of liars: Evaluating the impact of attacks on BitTorrent

BitTorrent has become one of the most popular Internet applications, given the number of users and the fraction of the Internet traffic …
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Flexible Security Configuration & Deployment in Peer-to-Peer Applications

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Bridging the gap between simulation and experimental evaluation in computer networks

Simulation and experimentation are two complementary techniques for performance evaluation, each one of them having opposite …
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Hybrid reliable multicast with TCP-XM

In recent years, much work has been done on attempting to scale multicast data transmission to hundreds or thousands of receivers. …
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Congestion control with ECN support in poll-based multicast protocols

Most of the traffic in the Internet nowadays is transmitted using TCP, or Transport Control Protocol. The stability of the Internet …
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Evaluating high-throughput reliable multicast for grid applications in production networks

Grid computing can be characterized as a distributed infrastructure that is a collection of computing resources within or across …
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Reliable multicast for the Grid: a case study in experimental computer science

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Policy-based access control in peer-to-peer grid systems

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High-Performance Reliable Multicasting for Grid Applications

Grid computing can be characterized as a distributed infrastructure that joins computing resources of multiple organizations together …
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Towards a flexible security framework for peer-to-peer based grid computing

The dynamic, multi-organization nature of large-scale grid computing introduces security issues that must be addressed before grid …
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Simulating Group Communication Protocols Through an Object-Oriented Framework

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Simmcast: a Simulation Tool for Multicast Protocol Evaluation

This paper describes Simmcast, a process-based discrete-event simulation framework that helps the design and evaluation of multicast …
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A Multicast Transport Protocol for Reliable Group Applications

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PRMP: A Scaleable Polling-based Reliable Multicast Protocol

Traditional reliable unicast protocols (e.g., TCP), known as sender-initiated schemes, do not scale well for one-to-many reliable …
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An end-to-end reliable multicast protocol using polling for scaleability

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The HetNOS network operating system: a tool for writing distributed applications

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