Publications
2026
2025
2024
Conference: SafeSpace: A Cybersecurity Workshop for Space
NSF Award Number 2422664. Directorate for Computer and Information Science …, 2024
Merge/Space: A Security Testbed for Satellite Systems
SpaceSec, 2024
2023
Identifying and differentiating acknowledged scanners in network traffic
2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW …, 2023
Modeling cognitive workload in open-source communities via simulation
International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation …, 2023
2022
The darpa searchlight dataset of application network traffic
Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test …, 2022
Generating Representative Video Teleconferencing Traffic
Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test …, 2022
Towards an operations-aware experimentation methodology
2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW …, 2022
Improving fidelity in video streaming experimentation on testbeds with a cdn
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Design, Deployment, and …, 2022
Collaborative Research: SII-NRDZ: ASPIRE: Advanced SPectrum Initiative for Research and Experimentation
NSF Award Number 2232473. Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences …, 2022
A tutorial on security and privacy challenges in CPS
Security and Resilience of Control Systems: Theory and Applications, 121-146, 2022
2021
Building reproducible video streaming traffic generators
Proceedings of the 14th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, 91-95, 2021
Case studies in experiment design on a minimega based network emulation testbed
Proceedings of the 14th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, 83-90, 2021
2020
Replicated testbed experiments for the evaluation of a wide-range of ddos defenses
2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), 46-55, 2020
Toward orchestration of complex networking experiments
13th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 20), 2020
2018
Sparse and distributed control of wide-area power systems with large communication delays
2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), 3822-3827, 2018
Delay-aware wide-area control of power systems over sparse communications with analytical guarantees
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018
2017
Towards repeatability & verifiability in networking experiments: A stochastic framework
Journal of Network and Computer Applications 81, 12-23, 2017
Profiting from attacks on real-time price communications in smart grids
2017 9th international conference on communication systems and networks …, 2017
2016
Tutorial: Resilience, a key property of Infrastructure CPS
2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2668-2668, 2016
Foundations of infrastructure-CPS
2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2649-2664, 2016
A framework for evaluating the resilience of dynamic real-time market mechanisms
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 7 (6), 2904-2912, 2016
Mitigating denial-of-service attacks in wide-area LQR control
2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 1-5, 2016
DBit: Assessing statistically significant differences in CDN performance
Computer Networks 107, 94-103, 2016
Defending against strategic adversaries in dynamic pricing markets for smart grids
2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks …, 2016
DETERLab and the DETER Project
The GENI Book, 35-62, 2016
2015
CPS: TTP Option: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Hardening Network Infrastructures for Fast, Resilient, and Cost-Optimal Wide-Area Control of Power Systems
NSF Award Number 1544742. Directorate for Computer and Information Science …, 2015
Optimizing defensive investments in energy-based cyber-physical systems
2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium …, 2015
Dbit: A methodology for comparing content distribution networks
University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Tech. Rep …, 2015
2014
Enabling collaborative research for security and resiliency of energy cyber physical systems
2014 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor …, 2014
RIPS Type 2: Collaborative Research: Towards resilient computational models of electricity-gas ICI
NSF Award Number 1440468. Directorate for Engineering 14 (1440468), 40468, 2014
A distributed optimization algorithm for attack-resilient wide-area monitoring of power systems: Theoretical and experimental methods
Decision and Game Theory for Security: 5th International Conference, GameSec …, 2014
2013
Replay of malicious traffic in network testbeds
2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security …, 2013
In quest of benchmarking security risks to cyber-physical systems
IEEE Network 27 (1), 19-24, 2013
2012
Montage topology manager: Tools for constructing and sharing representative internet topologies
Technical Report-684, 2012
Experience with heterogenous clock-skew based device fingerprinting
Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security …, 2012
NCS security experimentation using DETER
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on High Confidence Networked …, 2012
Reducing allocation errors in network testbeds
Proceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference, 495-508, 2012
Markov model based experiment comparison
2012 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks …, 2012
2011
Multiresolution semantic visualization of network traffic
2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing, 364-367, 2011
ThirdEye for Semantic Analysis of Experiment Data: DETER at a Glance
The DETER Testbed Newsletter, 2011
A semantic framework for data analysis in networked systems
8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 11), 2011
2010
Tools for worm experimentation on the DETER testbed
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems 5 (1 …, 2010
2008
Testing a collaborative DDoS defense in a red team/blue team exercise
IEEE Transactions on Computers 57 (8), 1098-1112, 2008
Accurately measuring denial of service in simulation and testbed experiments
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 6 (2), 81-95, 2008
2007
Automating DDoS Experimentation.
Usenix Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation, 2007
SEER: A security experimentation environment for DETER
Proceedings of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security …, 2007
Towards user-centric metrics for denial-of-service measurement
Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science, 8-es, 2007
When is service really denied? a user-centric dos metric
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on …, 2007
DDoS benchmarks and experimenter's workbench for the DETER testbed
2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure …, 2007
{SEER}: A Security Experimentation {EnviRonment} for {DETER}
DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007 …, 2007
DDoS benchmarks and experimentation workbench for the DETER testbed
In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Testbeds and Research …, 2007
2006
Towards systematic IDS evaluation
Proceedings of DETER Community Workshop, 20-23, 2006
DDoS experiment methodology
Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation 8, 2006
Measuring impact of dos attacks
Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation, 2006
Identification of repeated denial of service attacks
INFOCOM 2006. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications …, 2006
Measuring denial of service
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Quality of protection, 53-58, 2006
2005
Experiences with a continuous network tracing infrastructure
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Mining network data, 185-190, 2005
Spectral analysis of bottleneck traffic
University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science, Tech. Rep …, 2005
Measurement and spectral analysis of denial of service attacks
PhD Thesis, 1-200, 2005
2004
Spectral characteristics of saturated links
Under Submission, 2004
The effect of detail on Ethernet simulation
Proceedings of the eighteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed …, 2004
Distinguishing between single and multi-source attacks using signal processing
Computer Networks 46 (4), 479-503, 2004
2003
A framework for classifying denial of service attacks
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies …, 2003
Effect of malicious traffic on the network
Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), 2003
Cossack: Coordinated suppression of simultaneous attacks
Proceedings DARPA information survivability conference and exposition 1, 2-13, 2003