LACREND: Los Angeles/Colorado Research Exchange for Network Data

Project Summary

The LACREND project participates as a data provider and a data-hosting site under the PREDICT program. LACREND will provide the research community with a rich set of high-quality network data, including traffic traces and network topology information. The ultimate goal of this work is to enable new research and improvements in network security.

LACREND is a joint research effort of USC's Information Sciences Institute, Computer Science Department, and Information Technology Services and is supported by the DHS PREDICT program through contract NBCHC040137 (2004-2007) and NBCHC080035 (starting 2007).

People

(listed alphabetically)

• Xue Cai
• Xun Fan
• Maureen Dougherty (USC/ITS)
• John Heidemann (co-PI, USC/CSD)
• Zi Hu
• Christos Papadopoulos (co-PI, Colorado State U./CSD)
• Yuri Pradkin
• Lin Quan

Alumni: Genevieve Bartlett, Alefiya Hussain, Joseph Bannister, Ramesh Govindan, Jim Pepin, Ramachandran Ramani, Jenny Sager, Fabio Silva

Publications

• Lin Quan, John Heidemann, and Yuri Pradkin. Poster Abstract: Towards Active Measurements of Edge Network Outages. In Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, p. to appear. Hong Kong, China, Springer. March, 2013. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Quan13a.html>.
• Xun Fan, John Heidemann, and Ramesh Govindan. Evaluating Anycast in the Domain Name System. In Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom, p. to appear. Turin, Italy, IEEE. April, 2013. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Fan13a.html>.
• John Heidemann. Long-term Data Collection and Analysis of Outages at the Edge. Talk given at CAIDA Workshop on Active Internet Measurement Systems. February, 2013. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann13e.html>.
• John Heidemann. Active Probing of Edge Networks: Hurricane Sandy and Beyond. Talk given at FCC Workshop on Network Resiliency. February, 2013. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann13d.html>.
• John Heidemann. Active Probing of Edge Networks: Outages During Hurricane Sandy. Talk given at NANOG57 as part of panel hosted by James Cowie. February, 2013. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann13b.html>.
• John Heidemann, Lin Quan, and Yuri Pradkin. A Preliminary Analysis of Network Outages During Hurricane Sandy. Technical Report ISI-TR-2008-685b, USC/Information Sciences Institute, November, 2012. (Correction Feb. 2013.) <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann12d.html>.
• Lin Quan, John Heidemann and Yuri Pradkin. Visualizing Sparse Internet Events: Network Outages and Route Changes In Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Internet Visualization, November, 2012.
• Xue Cai, John Heidemann, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Walter Willinger. An Organization-Level View of the Internet and its Implications (extended) Technical Report ISI-TR-679, USC/Information Sciences Institute, June, 2012.
• Lin Quan, John Heidemann and Yuri Pradkin. Detecting Internet Outages with Precise Active Probing (extended). Technical Report ISI-TR-678b, USC/Information Sciences Institute, May, 2012.
• Xun Fan, John Heidemann and Ramesh Govindan. Identifying and Characterizing Anycast in the Domain Name System. Technical Report N. ISI-TR-671, USC/Information Sciences Institute, June, 2011.

• Lin Quan and John Heidemann. Detecting Internet Outages with Active Probing. Technical Report ISI-TR-672, USC/Information Sciences Institute, May, 2011.
• Genevieve Bartlett, John Heidemann, and Christos Papadopoulos. Low-Rate, Flow-Level Periodicity Detection. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Global Internet Symposium, p. to appear. Shanghai, China, IEEE. April, 2011. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Bartlett11a.html>.
• Lin Quan and John Heidemann. On the Characteristics and Reasons of Long-lived Internet Flows. In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, p. to appear. Melbourne, Australia, ACM. November, 2010.
• Xun Fan and John Heidemann. Selecting Representative IP Addresses for Internet Topology Studies. In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, p. to appear. Melbourne, Australia, ACM. November, 2010.
• Gautam Thatte, Urbashi Mitra, and John Heidemann. Parametric Methods for Anomaly Detection in Aggregate Traffic. ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 19 (2 ), pp. 512-525, August, 2010. (Appeared in print April 2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2010.2070845
• John Heidemann and Christos Papadopoulos. Uses and Challenges for Network Datasets. In Proceedings of the IEEE Cybersecurity Applications and Technologies Conference for Homeland Security (CATCH), p. to appear. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE. March, 2009. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann09a.html>.
• Xue Cai and John Heidemann. Active Probing to Classify Internet Address Blocks (Extended Abstract for SIGCOMM'08 Poster). Technical Report ISI-TR-653, USC/Information Sciences Institute, August, 2008.
• John Heidemann, Yuri Pradkin, Ramesh Govindan, Christos Papadopoulos, Genevieve Bartlett, and Joseph Bannister. Census and Survey of the Visible Internet In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, p. to appear. Vouliagmeni, Greece, ACM. October, 2008.
• John Heidemann, Yuri Pradkin, Ramesh Govindan, Christos Papadopoulos, and Genevive Bartlett, and Joseph Bannister. Census and Survey of the Visible Internet (extended). Technical Report ISI-TR-2008-649, USC/Information Sciences Institute, February, 2008.
• John Heidemann and Yuri Pradkin. "Mapping the Internet Address Space" (poster). September 2007. Described on the "Mapping the Internet Address Space" web page.
• John Heidemann, Yuri Pradkin, Ramesh Govindan, Christos Papadopoulos, and Joseph Bannister. Exploring Visible Internet Hosts through Census and Survey. Technical Report ISI-TR-2007-640, USC/Information Sciences Institute, May, 2007.
• Alefiya Hussain, Genevieve Bartlett, Yuri Pryadkin, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos, Joseph Bannister, Experiences with a Continuous Network Tracing Infrastructure, MineNet, SIGCOMM Workshops, August 22-26, 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Also available as Technical Report ISI-TR-2005-601, April 2005 [pdf]

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Software

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