Appointments
Research Faculty University of Southern California	8/2010 - present
Computer Scientist University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute	8/2007 - present
Assistant Professor Computer and Information Sciences Department, University of Delaware	9/2003 - 8/2007
Research Assistant Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles	10/2000 - 8/2003
Lecturer Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity, University of California Los Angeles	4/2000
Teaching Assistant Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles	10/1998 - 8/2000
Research Assistant School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia	9/1997 - 9/1998
Education
University of California Los Angeles Ph.D. in Computer Science (specializing in Network Security) Thesis: D-WARD: Source-End DDoS Defense Advisor: Prof. Peter Reiher GPA: 3.84/4.00	9/2003
University of California Los Angeles M.S. in Computer Science GPA: 3.82/4.00	12/2000
School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia B.Sc. in Computer Science GPA: 9.33/10.00	7/1998
Publications
Books Chapter on "Collaborative DDoS Defenses" in Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd Edition Henk C.A. van Tilborg, Sushil Jajodia, Editors-in-Chief, Springer, in preparation Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms Jelena Mirkovic, Sven Dietrich, David Dittrich and Peter Reiher, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-147573-8 Journals Teaching Cybersecurity with DeterLab J. Mirkovic and T. Benzel. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, January/February 2012, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 73-76. (invited paper). Comparative Evaluation of Spoofing Defenses J. Mirkovic and E. Kissel, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, March-April 2011, vol 8, no 2, pp 218-232. Tools for worm experimentation on the DETER testbed S.Wei, A. Hussain, J. Mirkovic and C. Ko, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), 2010, Vol. 5, No. 1/2, pp. 151-171. Accurately Measuring Denial of Service in Simulation and Testbed Experiments J. Mirkovic, A. Hussain, S. Fahmy, P. Reiher and R. Thomas, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol 6, no 2, pp 81-95, April-June 2009. Testing a Collaborative DDoS Defense in a Red Team/Blue Team Exercise J. Mirkovic, P. Reiher, C. Papadopoulos, A. Hussain, M. Shepard, M. Berg and R. Jung, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 57, No 8, pp 1098-1112, August 2008. Learning the valid incoming direction of IP packets J. Li, J. Mirkovic, T. Ehrenkranz, M. Wang, P. Reiher and L. Zhang, Computer Networks, Volume 52, Issue 2, February 2008, pp 399-417. D-WARD: A Source-End Defense Against Flooding Denial-of-Service Attacks J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 2005, pp. 216-232. Conferences and workshops A Semantic Framework for Data Analysis in Networked Systems A. Viswanathan, A. Hussain, J. Wroclawski, S. Schwab and J. Mirkovic. In Proceedings of the Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2011. (acceptance rate ~27/157=17.2%) Teaching Security with Network Testbeds J. Mirkovic, M. Ryan, J. Hickey, K. Sklower, P. Reiher, P. A. H. Peterson, B. H. Kang, M. C. Chuah, D. Massey, G. Ragusa. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Education, 2011. The DETER Project: Advancing the Science of Cyber Security Experimentation and Test J. Mirkovic, T. Benzel. S. Schwab, J. Wroclawski, T. Faber and B. Braden. In Proceedings of the IEEE Homeland Security Technologies Conference (IEEE HST), 2010. RAD: Reflector Attack Defense Using Message Authentication Codes E. Kline, M. Beaumont-Gay, J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher. In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2009. (acceptance rate ~44/240=18.3%) Modeling Human Behavior for Defense against Flash Crowd Attacks G. Oikonomou and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2009. Tools for Worm Experimentation on the DETER testbed S. Wei, C. Ko, J. Mirkovic and A. Hussain, Proceedings of the IEEE Create-Net International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (Tridentcom), 2009. How to Test DDoS Defenses J. Mirkovic, S. Fahmy, P. Reiher and R. Thomas, Proceedings of the Cybersecurity Applications & Technology Conference For Homeland Security (CATCH) 2009. Current Developments in DETER Cybersecurity Testbed Technology T. Benzel, B. Braden, T. Faber, J. Mirkovic, S. Schwab, K. Sollins and J. Wroclawski, Proceedings of the Cybersecurity Applications & Technology Conference For Homeland Security (CATCH) 2009. Building Accountability into the Future Internet J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE ICNP Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), 2008. Correcting Congestion-Based Error in Network Telescope's Observations of Worm Dynamics S. Wei and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the IEEE Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2008. (6-page paper, overall acceptance rate 32/185=17%) Privacy-Safe Network Trace Sharing via Secure Queries J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the ACM CCS Workshop on Network Data Anonymization (NDA), 2008. Managing the Health of Security Experiments J. Mirkovic, K. Sollins and J. Wroclawski, Proceedings of the USENIX Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop (CSET), 2008. Combining Speak-up with DefCOM for Improved DDoS Defense M. Mehta, K. Thapar, G. Oikonomou and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2008. Fine-Grained Capabilities for Flooding DDoS Defense Using Client Reputations M. Natu and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Large-Scale Attack and Defense Workshop (LSAD), 2007. Automating DDoS Experimentation J. Mirkovic, B. Wilson, A. Hussain, S. Fahmy, P. Reiher, R. Thomas and S. Schwab, Proceedings of the USENIX DETER workshop, 2007 Towards User-Centric Metrics for Denial-Of-Service Measurement, J. Mirkovic, A. Hussain, B. Wilson, S. Fahmy, P. Reiher, R. Thomas, W. Yao and S. Schwab, Proceedings of the ACM FCRC Workshop on Experimental Computer Science (ExpCS), 2007. DDoS Benchmarks and Experimenter's Workbench for the DETER Testbed J. Mirkovic, S. Wei, A. Hussain, B. Wilson, R. Thomas, S. Schwab, S. Fahmy, R. Chertov and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE Create-Net International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (Tridentcom), 2007. Benchmarks for DDoS Defense Evaluation J. Mirkovic, E.Arikan, S. Wei, S. Fahmy, R. Thomas and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE AFCEA MILCOM 2006. Measuring Denial-of-Service J. Mirkovic, P. Reiher, S. Fahmy, R. Thomas, A. Hussain, S. Schwab and C. Ko, Proceedings of the ACM CCS Quality of Protection Workshop (QoP), 2006. A Framework for Collaborative DDoS Defense G. Oikonomou, J. Mirkovic, P. Reiher and M. Robinson, Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2006. (acceptance rate 32/135=27%) Building Reputations for Internet Clients S. Wei and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the ESORICS International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM), 2006. A Realistic Simulation of Internet-Scale Events S. Wei and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the the Create-Net International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS), 2006. Profiling and Clustering Internet Hosts S. Wei, J. Mirkovic and E. Kissel, Proceedings of the WORLDCOMP International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN), June 2006. Distributed Worm Simulation with a Realistic Internet Model S. Wei, J. Mirkovic and M. Swany, Proceedings of the ACM IEEE SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), 2005. Alliance Formation for DDoS Defense J. Mirkovic, M. Robinson, P. Reiher and G. Kuenning, Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), 2003. (acceptance rate 13/43=30%) Challenges of Source-End DDoS Defense J. Mirkovic, G. Prier and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), 2003. (acceptance rate 40/155=26%) Attacking DDoS at the Source J. Mirkovic, G. Prier and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2002. (acceptance rate 32/217=15%) Implementing Address Assurance in the Intel IXP Router M. Burns, G. Prier, J. Mirkovic, P. Reiher, Proceedings of the Network Processors Conference (NPC), 2002. SAVE: Source Address Validity Enforcement Protocol J. Li, J. Mirkovic, M. Wang, P. Reiher and L. Zhang, Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM, 2002. (acceptance rate 192/938=20.5%) A Self-Organizing Approach to Data Forwarding In Large-Scale Sensor Networks J. Mirkovic, G. P. Venkataramani, S. Lu and L. Zhang, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2001. Other refereed publications When Is Service Really Denied? A User-Centric DoS Metric J. Mirkovic, A. Hussain, B. Wilson, S. Fahmy, W. Yao, P. Reiher, S. Schwab and R. Thomas, Poster paper at the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2007. A Taxonomy of DDoS Attacks and Defense Mechanisms J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Volume 34, Number 2, April 2004, pp. 39-54. Genetic Search Based on Multiple Mutations V. Milutinovic, D. Cvetkovic and J. Mirkovic, IEEE Computer, pp. 118-119, November 2000. Tech reports / thesis / other J. Mirkovic, T. Faber. P. Hsieh, G. Malayandisamu, R. Malavia DADL: Distributed Application Description Language, USC/ISI Technical Report # ISI-TR-664. Comparative Evaluation of Spoofing Defenses E. Kissel and J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI technical report number ISI-TR-655, January 2009. A Two-Constraint Approach to Risky Cybersecurity Experiment Management J. Wroclawski, J. Mirkovic, T. Faber and S. Schwab, Invited paper at the 2008 Sarnoff Symposium. A Practical IP Spoofing Defense Through Route-Based Filtering J. Mirkovic, N. Jevtic and P. Reiher, University of Delaware CIS Department Technical Report CIS-TR-2006-332. Distributed Defense Against DDOS Attacks J. Mirkovic, M. Robinson, P. Reiher and G. Oikonomou, University of Delaware CIS Department Technical Report CIS-TR-2005-02. A Taxonomy of DDoS Attacks and DDoS Defense Mechanisms J. Mirkovic, J. Martin and P. Reiher, UCLA CSD Technical Report CSD-TR-020018. Source Router Approach to DDoS Defense J. Mirkovic, G. Prier and P. Reiher, UCLA CSD Technical Report CSD-TR-010042. iSAVE: Incrementally Deployable Source Address Validation J. Mirkovic, Z. Xu, J. Li, M. Schnaider, P. Reiher and L. Zhang, UCLA CSD Technical Report CSD-TR-020030. D-WARD: Source-End Defense Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks J. Mirkovic, Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, August 2003. SAVE: Source Address Validity Enforcement Protocol J. Li, J. Mirkovic, M. Wang, P. Reiher and L. Zhang, UCLA Technical Report CSD-TR-010004.
Grants
Active Traffic modeling and generation with custom fidelity for cyber security experimentation NSF SDCI award number 1127388 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Investigating Network Testbed Usage NSF EAGER award number 1049758 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Privacy-safe sharing of network data via secure queries NSF CNS Trusted Computing award number 0914780 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Hands-on exercises on DETER testbed for security education NSF DUE Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) award number 0920719 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: P. Reiher, UCLA Co-PI: D. Massey, Colorado State University Co-PI: Mooi-Choo Chuah, Lehigh University Co-PI: B. Hoon Kang, UNC Charlotte Completed Beyond Testbeds: Catalyzing Transformative Research and Education through Cybersecurity Collaboratories (BTCT) NSF CNS Cyber Trust award number 0831491 Lead PI: J. Wroclawski, USC/ISI Co-PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Enabling Routers to Detect and Filter Spoofed Traffic NSF CNS Cyber Trust award number 0716452 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: P. Reiher, UCLA Transparent, Secure and Reliable Virtual Infrastructure Management USC-InfoSys Center for Research and Education in Advanced Software Technologies (CAST) Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: T. Faber, USC/ISI iSim - Simulator of Internet-scale Events NSF CNS Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) - planning grant award number: 0708774 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Benchmarks for DDoS Defense Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency award number FA8750-05-2-0197 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: P. Reiher, UCLA Co-PI: S. Fahmy, Purdue University Co-PI: R. Thomas, SPARTA, Inc. DefCOM - Distributed Defense Against DDoS Attacks NSF CNS Cyber Trust award number 0430228 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, University of Delaware Co-PI: P. Reiher, UCLA Securing DefCOM operation from inside and outside threats NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement award number 0430228 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, University of Delaware Machine Learning for Worm Defense University of Delaware Research Foundation Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, University of Delaware
Program Committee Service
PC chair for NPSec (Workshop on Secure Network Protocols) 2009, CSET (Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test) 2008 and 2009. TPC member for ICDCS 2011, Securecomm 2009, Global Internet 2008 and 2009, Chinacom 2009, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2008, Applied Cryptography and Network Security 2008, INFOCOM 2006, IWQoS (International Workshop on Quality of Service) 2006, 2007 and 2008, ICCCN (IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks) 2006, 2007 and 2008, WSPWN (International Workshop on Research Challenges in Mobile and Wireless Networks Security and Privacy) 2006, NPSec (Workshop on Secure Network Protocols) 2005, 2006 and 2008, WORIA (International Workshop on Rapid Internet Attacks) 2005. Invited session chair for "Network Security" session at the Sarnoff Symposium 2007 and 2008. Publicity chair for SIGCOMM 2007, NPSec (Workshop on Secure Network Protocols) 2007.
Reviewer Service
NSF Cyber Trust, NeTS, CAREER and REU program panelist ACM CCR (Computer Communications Review), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, IEEE Computer Magazine, IEEE Communications Letters International Journal of Information Security Elsevier International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing SpringerLink International Journal of Information Security The Handbook of Information Security, The Handbook of Computer Networks ETRI Journal