2024

Conference: SafeSpace: A Cybersecurity Workshop for Space

Alefiya Hussain
NSF Award Number 2422664. Directorate for Computer and Information Science …, 2024

2023

Modeling cognitive workload in open-source communities via simulation

Alexey Tregubov, Jeremy Abramson, Christophe Hauser, Alefiya Hussain, Jim Blythe
International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation …, 2023

2022

Generating Representative Video Teleconferencing Traffic

David DeAngelis, Alefiya Hussain, Brian Kocoloski, Calvin Ardi, Stephen Schwab
Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test …, 2022

A Machine Learning IDS for Known and Unknown Anomalies

F Aguiló–Gost, Ester Simó–Mezquita, Eva Marín–Tordera, Ayaz Hussain
2022 18th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication …, 2022

Collaborative Research: SII-NRDZ: ASPIRE: Advanced SPectrum Initiative for Research and Experimentation

Alefiya Hussain
NSF Award Number 2232473. Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences …, 2022

A tutorial on security and privacy challenges in CPS

Seyed Mehran Dibaji, Alefiya Hussain, Hideaki Ishii
Security and Resilience of Control Systems: Theory and Applications, 121-146, 2022

2019

Industry under the open sky: An exploration of the political economy of brick making in Nepal; ICIMOD Working Paper 2019/7

S Sharma, K Gurung, A Mishra, S Bajracharya, L Mathema, A Hussain, BB Pradhan
(No Title), 2019

2018

Sparse and distributed control of wide-area power systems with large communication delays

Seyed Mehran Dibaji, Anuradha Annaswamy, Aranya Chakrabortty, Alefiya Hussain
2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), 3822-3827, 2018

Delay-aware wide-area control of power systems over sparse communications with analytical guarantees

Seyed Mehran Dibaji, Anuradha Annaswamy, Aranya Chakrabortty, Alefiya Hussain
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018

2017

Towards resilient cyber-physical energy systems

Stefanos Baros, Dylan Shiltz, Prateek Jaipuria, Alefiya Hussain, Anuradha M Annaswamy
2017

Towards repeatability & verifiability in networking experiments: A stochastic framework

Swati Sharma, Alefiya Hussain, Huzur Saran
Journal of Network and Computer Applications 81, 12-23, 2017

Profiting from attacks on real-time price communications in smart grids

Paul Wood, Saurabh Bagchi, Alefiya Hussain
2017 9th international conference on communication systems and networks …, 2017

2016

Tutorial: Resilience, a key property of Infrastructure CPS

Alefiya Hussain
2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2668-2668, 2016

Foundations of infrastructure-CPS

Anuradha M Annaswamy, Alefiya Hussainy, Aranya Chakraborttyz, Miloš Cvetković
2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2649-2664, 2016

A framework for evaluating the resilience of dynamic real-time market mechanisms

Paul Wood, Dylan Shiltz, Thomas R Nudell, Alefiya Hussain, Anuradha M Annaswamy
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 7 (6), 2904-2912, 2016

Mitigating denial-of-service attacks in wide-area LQR control

Nachiappan Chockalingam, Aranya Chakrabortty, Alefiya Hussain
2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 1-5, 2016

DBit: Assessing statistically significant differences in CDN performance

Zahaib Akhtar, Alefiya Hussain, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Ramesh Govindan
Computer Networks 107, 94-103, 2016

Defending against strategic adversaries in dynamic pricing markets for smart grids

Paul Wood, Saurabh Bagchi, Alefiya Hussain
2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks …, 2016

2015

Optimizing defensive investments in energy-based cyber-physical systems

Paul Wood, Saurabh Bagchi, Alefiya Hussain
2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium …, 2015

Dbit: A methodology for comparing content distribution networks

Zahaib Akhtar, Alefiya Hussain, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Ramesh Govindan
University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Tech. Rep …, 2015

2014

Enabling collaborative research for security and resiliency of energy cyber physical systems

Alefiya Hussain, Ted Faber, Robert Braden, Terry Benzel, Tim Yardley, Jeremy Jones, David M Nicol, William H Sanders, Thomas W Edgar, Thomas E Carroll, David O Manz, Laura Tinnel
2014 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor …, 2014

RIPS Type 2: Collaborative Research: Towards resilient computational models of electricity-gas ICI

Alefiya Hussain
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

Jianhua Zhang, Prateek Jaipuria, Aranya Chakrabortty, Alefiya Hussain
Decision and Game Theory for Security: 5th International Conference, GameSec …, 2014

2013

In quest of benchmarking security risks to cyber-physical systems

Saurabh Amin, Galina A Schwartz, Alefiya Hussain
IEEE Network 27 (1), 19-24, 2013

2012

Experience with heterogenous clock-skew based device fingerprinting

Swati Sharma, Alefiya Hussain, Huzur Saran
Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security …, 2012

NCS security experimentation using DETER

Alefiya Hussain, Saurabh Amin
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on High Confidence Networked …, 2012

Reducing allocation errors in network testbeds

Jelena Mirkovic, Hao Shi, Alefiya Hussain
Proceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference, 495-508, 2012

Markov model based experiment comparison

Swati Sharma, Alefiya Hussain
2012 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks …, 2012

2011

Multiresolution semantic visualization of network traffic

Alefiya Hussain, Arun Viswanathan
2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing, 364-367, 2011

ThirdEye for Semantic Analysis of Experiment Data: DETER at a Glance

Arun Viswanathan, Alefiya Hussain
The DETER Testbed Newsletter, 2011

2010

Tools for worm experimentation on the DETER testbed

Songjie Wei, Alefiya Hussain, Jelena Mirkovic, Calvin Ko
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems 5 (1 …, 2010

2008

Testing a collaborative DDoS defense in a red team/blue team exercise

Jelena Mirkovic, Peter Reiher, Christos Papadopoulos, Alefiya Hussain, Marla Shepard, Michael Berg, Robert Jung
IEEE Transactions on Computers 57 (8), 1098-1112, 2008

Accurately measuring denial of service in simulation and testbed experiments

Jelena Mirkovic, Alefiya Hussain, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan K Thomas
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 6 (2), 81-95, 2008

2007

Automating DDoS Experimentation.

Jelena Mirkovic, Brett Wilson, Alefiya Hussain, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Stephen Schwab
Usenix Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation, 2007

{SEER}: A Security Experimentation {EnviRonment} for {DETER}

Brett Wilson, Calvin Ko, Alefiya Hussain
DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007 …, 2007

2006

Measuring impact of dos attacks

Jelena Mirkovic, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Alefiya Hussain, Steven Schwab, Calvin Ko
Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation, 2006

Identification of repeated denial of service attacks

Alefiya Hussain, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos
INFOCOM 2006. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications …, 2006

2005

Experiences with a continuous network tracing infrastructure

Alefiya Hussain, Genevieve Bartlett, Yuri Pryadkin, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos, Joseph Bannister
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Mining network data, 185-190, 2005

Spectral analysis of bottleneck traffic

Xinming He, Christos Papadopoulos, John Heidemann, Urbashi Mitra, Usman Riaz, Alefiya Hussain
University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science, Tech. Rep …, 2005

Measurement and spectral analysis of denial of service attacks

Alefiya Naveed Hussain, John Adviser-Heidemann, Christos Adviser-Papadopoulos
PhD Thesis, 1-200, 2005

2004

Spectral characteristics of saturated links

Xinming He, Christos Papadopoulos, John Heidemann, Alefiya Hussain
Under Submission, 2004

The effect of detail on Ethernet simulation

Alefiya Hussain, Aman Kapoor, John Heidemann
Proceedings of the eighteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed …, 2004

Distinguishing between single and multi-source attacks using signal processing

Alefiya Hussain, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos
Computer Networks 46 (4), 479-503, 2004

2003

A framework for classifying denial of service attacks

Alefiya Hussain, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies …, 2003

Effect of malicious traffic on the network

Kun-chan Lan, Alefiya Hussain, Debojyoti Dutta
Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), 2003

Cossack: Coordinated suppression of simultaneous attacks

Christos Papadopoulos, Robert Lindell, John Mehringer, Alefiya Hussain, Ramesh Govindan
Proceedings DARPA information survivability conference and exposition 1, 2-13, 2003