Publications – Alefiya Hussain

2022 (1)

A Tutorial on Security and Privacy Challenges in CPS. Dibaji, S. M.; Hussain, A.; and Ishii, H. Security and Resilience of Control Systems,121–146. 2022.
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@article{dibaji2022tutorial,
  title={A Tutorial on Security and Privacy Challenges in CPS},
  author={Dibaji, Seyed Mehran and Hussain, Alefiya and Ishii, Hideaki},
  journal={Security and Resilience of Control Systems},
  pages={121--146},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Springer, Cham}
}

2021 (2)

Case Studies in Experiment Design on a minimega Based Network Emulation Testbed. Kocoloski, B.; Hussain, A.; Troglia, M.; Ardi, C.; Cheng, S.; DeAngelis, D.; Symonds, C.; Collins, M.; Goodfellow, R.; and Schwab, S. In Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, pages 83–90, 2021.
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@inproceedings{kocoloski2021case,
  title={Case Studies in Experiment Design on a minimega Based Network Emulation Testbed},
  author={Kocoloski, Brian and Hussain, Alefiya and Troglia, Matthew and Ardi, Calvin and Cheng, Steven and DeAngelis, Dave and Symonds, Christopher and Collins, Michael and Goodfellow, Ryan and Schwab, Stephen},
  booktitle={Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop},
  pages={83--90},
  year={2021}
}

Building Reproducible Video Streaming Traffic Generators. Ardi, C.; Hussain, A.; and Schwab, S. In Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, pages 91–95, 2021.
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@inproceedings{ardi2021building,
  title={Building Reproducible Video Streaming Traffic Generators},
  author={Ardi, Calvin and Hussain, Alefiya and Schwab, Stephen},
  booktitle={Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop},
  pages={91--95},
  year={2021}
}

2020 (2)

Toward orchestration of complex networking experiments. Hussain, A.; Jaipuria, P.; Lawler, G.; Schwab, S.; and Benzel, T. In 13th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 20), 2020.
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@inproceedings{hussain2020toward,
  title={Toward orchestration of complex networking experiments},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Jaipuria, Prateek and Lawler, Geoff and Schwab, Stephen and Benzel, Terry},
  booktitle={13th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 20)},
  year={2020}
}

Replicated Testbed Experiments for the Evaluation of a Wide-range of DDoS Defenses. Hussain, A.; DeAngelis, D.; Kline, E.; and Schwab, S. In 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), pages 46–55, 2020. IEEE
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@inproceedings{hussain2020replicated,
  title={Replicated Testbed Experiments for the Evaluation of a Wide-range of DDoS Defenses},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and DeAngelis, David and Kline, Erik and Schwab, Stephen},
  booktitle={2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS\&PW)},
  pages={46--55},
  year={2020},
  organization={IEEE}
}

2018 (2)

Delay-aware wide-area control of power systems over sparse communications with analytical guarantees. Dibaji, S. M.; Annaswamy, A.; Chakrabortty, A.; and Hussain, A. . 2018.
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@article{dibaji2018delay,
  title={Delay-aware wide-area control of power systems over sparse communications with analytical guarantees},
  author={Dibaji, Seyed Mehran and Annaswamy, Anuradha and Chakrabortty, Aranya and Hussain, Alefiya},
  year={2018},
  publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}
}

Sparse and distributed control of wide-area power systems with large communication delays. Dibaji, S. M.; Annaswamy, A.; Chakrabortty, A.; and Hussain, A. In 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), pages 3822–3827, 2018. IEEE
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@inproceedings{dibaji2018sparse,
  title={Sparse and distributed control of wide-area power systems with large communication delays},
  author={Dibaji, Seyed Mehran and Annaswamy, Anuradha and Chakrabortty, Aranya and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC)},
  pages={3822--3827},
  year={2018},
  organization={IEEE}
}

2017 (5)

A Comparative Study of Network Testbed Usage Characteristics. Mirkovic, J.; Hussain, A.; and Shi, H. . 2017.
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@article{mirkoviccomparative,
  title={A Comparative Study of Network Testbed Usage Characteristics},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Hussain, Alefiya and Shi, Hao},
  year={2017},
  booktitle={In Proceedings of the {LASER} Workshop} 
}

A Calibration Methodology for Networked Cybersecurity Testbed Environments. Ghatge, V.; Jaipuria, P.; and Hussain, A. . 2017.
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@article{ghatgecalibration,
  title={A Calibration Methodology for Networked Cybersecurity Testbed Environments},
  author={Ghatge, Vineet and Jaipuria, Prateek and Hussain, Alefiya},
  year={2017},
  booktitle={In Proceeding for the {LASER} Workshop} 
}

Towards repeatability & verifiability in networking experiments: A stochastic framework. Sharma, S.; Hussain, A.; and Saran, H. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 81: 12–23. 2017.
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@article{sharma2017towards,
  title={Towards repeatability \& verifiability in networking experiments: A stochastic framework},
  author={Sharma, Swati and Hussain, Alefiya and Saran, Huzur},
  journal={Journal of Network and Computer Applications},
  volume={81},
  pages={12--23},
  year={2017},
  publisher={Academic Press}
}

Profiting from attacks on real-time price communications in smart grids. Wood, P.; Bagchi, S.; and Hussain, A. In 2017 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), pages 158–165, 2017. IEEE
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@inproceedings{wood2017profiting,
  title={Profiting from attacks on real-time price communications in smart grids},
  author={Wood, Paul and Bagchi, Saurabh and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={2017 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)},
  pages={158--165},
  year={2017},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Towards resilient cyber-physical energy systems. Baros, S.; Shiltz, D.; Jaipuria, P.; Hussain, A.; and Annaswamy, A. M . 2017.
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@article{baros2017towards,
  title={Towards resilient cyber-physical energy systems},
  author={Baros, Stefanos and Shiltz, Dylan and Jaipuria, Prateek and Hussain, Alefiya and Annaswamy, Anuradha M},
  year={2017}
}

2016 (7)

Foundations of infrastructure-CPS. Annaswamy, A. M; Hussainy, A.; Chakraborttyz, A.; and Cvetković, M. In 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), pages 2649–2664, 2016. IEEE
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@inproceedings{annaswamy2016foundations,
  title={Foundations of infrastructure-CPS},
  author={Annaswamy, Anuradha M and Hussainy, Alefiya and Chakraborttyz, Aranya and Cvetkovi{\'c}, Milo{\v{s}}},
  booktitle={2016 American Control Conference (ACC)},
  pages={2649--2664},
  year={2016},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Defending against strategic adversaries in dynamic pricing markets for smart grids. Wood, P.; Bagchi, S.; and Hussain, A. In 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), pages 1–8, 2016. IEEE
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@inproceedings{wood2016defending,
  title={Defending against strategic adversaries in dynamic pricing markets for smart grids},
  author={Wood, Paul and Bagchi, Saurabh and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)},
  pages={1--8},
  year={2016},
  organization={IEEE}
}

DBit: assessing statistically significant differences in CDN performance. Akhtar, Z.; Hussain, A.; Katz-Bassett, E.; and Govindan, R. Computer Networks, 107: 94–103. 2016.
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@article{akhtar2016dbit,
  title={DBit: assessing statistically significant differences in CDN performance},
  author={Akhtar, Zahaib and Hussain, Alefiya and Katz-Bassett, Ethan and Govindan, Ramesh},
  journal={Computer Networks},
  volume={107},
  pages={94--103},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

Tutorial: Resilience, a key property of Infrastructure CPS. Hussain, A. In 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), pages 2668–2668, 2016. IEEE
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@inproceedings{hussain2016tutorial,
  title={Tutorial: Resilience, a key property of Infrastructure CPS},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={2016 American Control Conference (ACC)},
  pages={2668--2668},
  year={2016},
  organization={IEEE}
}

A framework for evaluating the resilience of dynamic real-time market mechanisms. Wood, P.; Shiltz, D.; Nudell, T. R; Hussain, A.; and Annaswamy, A. M IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 7(6): 2904–2912. 2016.
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@article{wood2016framework,
  title={A framework for evaluating the resilience of dynamic real-time market mechanisms},
  author={Wood, Paul and Shiltz, Dylan and Nudell, Thomas R and Hussain, Alefiya and Annaswamy, Anuradha M},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid},
  volume={7},
  number={6},
  pages={2904--2912},
  year={2016},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

DETERLab and the DETER Project. Wroclawski, J.; Benzel, T.; Blythe, J.; Faber, T.; Hussain, A.; Mirkovic, J.; and Schwab, S. In The GENI Book, pages 35–62. Springer, Cham, 2016.
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@incollection{wroclawski2016deterlab,
  title={DETERLab and the DETER Project},
  author={Wroclawski, John and Benzel, Terry and Blythe, Jim and Faber, Ted and Hussain, Alefiya and Mirkovic, Jelena and Schwab, Stephen},
  booktitle={The GENI Book},
  pages={35--62},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Springer, Cham}
}

Mitigating denial-of-service attacks in wide-area LQR control. Chockalingam, N.; Chakrabortty, A.; and Hussain, A. In 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), pages 1–5, 2016. IEEE
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@inproceedings{chockalingam2016mitigating,
  title={Mitigating denial-of-service attacks in wide-area LQR control},
  author={Chockalingam, Nachiappan and Chakrabortty, Aranya and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2016},
  organization={IEEE}
}

2015 (2)

Optimizing defensive investments in energy-based cyber-physical systems. Wood, P.; Bagchi, S.; and Hussain, A. In 2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop, pages 1042–1051, 2015. IEEE
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@inproceedings{wood2015optimizing,
  title={Optimizing defensive investments in energy-based cyber-physical systems},
  author={Wood, Paul and Bagchi, Saurabh and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop},
  pages={1042--1051},
  year={2015},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Dbit: A methodology for comparing content distribution networks. Akhtar, Z.; Hussain, A.; Katz-Bassett, E.; and Govindan, R. University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Tech. Rep,15–957. 2015.
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@article{akhtar2015dbit,
  title={Dbit: A methodology for comparing content distribution networks},
  author={Akhtar, Zahaib and Hussain, Alefiya and Katz-Bassett, Ethan and Govindan, Ramesh},
  journal={University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Tech. Rep},
  pages={15--957},
  year={2015}
}

2014 (2)

Enabling collaborative research for security and resiliency of energy cyber physical systems. Hussain, A.; Faber, T.; Braden, R.; Benzel, T.; Yardley, T.; Jones, J.; Nicol, D. M; Sanders, W. H; Edgar, T. W; Carroll, T. E; and others In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, pages 358–360, 2014. IEEE
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@inproceedings{hussain2014enabling,
  title={Enabling collaborative research for security and resiliency of energy cyber physical systems},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Faber, Ted and Braden, Robert and Benzel, Terry and Yardley, Tim and Jones, Jeremy and Nicol, David M and Sanders, William H and Edgar, Thomas W and Carroll, Thomas E and others},
  booktitle={2014 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems},
  pages={358--360},
  year={2014},
  organization={IEEE}
}

A distributed optimization algorithm for attack-resilient wide-area monitoring of power systems: Theoretical and experimental methods. Zhang, J.; Jaipuria, P.; Chakrabortty, A.; and Hussain, A. In International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, pages 350–359, 2014. Springer, Cham
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@inproceedings{zhang2014distributed,
  title={A distributed optimization algorithm for attack-resilient wide-area monitoring of power systems: Theoretical and experimental methods},
  author={Zhang, Jianhua and Jaipuria, Prateek and Chakrabortty, Aranya and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security},
  pages={350--359},
  year={2014},
  organization={Springer, Cham}
}

2013 (2)

In quest of benchmarking security risks to cyber-physical systems. Amin, S.; Schwartz, G. A; and Hussain, A. IEEE Network, 27(1): 19–24. 2013.
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@article{amin2013quest,
  title={In quest of benchmarking security risks to cyber-physical systems},
  author={Amin, Saurabh and Schwartz, Galina A and Hussain, Alefiya},
  journal={IEEE Network},
  volume={27},
  number={1},
  pages={19--24},
  year={2013},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

Replay of malicious traffic in network testbeds. Hussain, A.; Pradkin, Y.; and Heidemann, J. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), pages 322–327, 2013. IEEE
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@inproceedings{hussain2013replay,
  title={Replay of malicious traffic in network testbeds},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Pradkin, Yuri and Heidemann, John},
  booktitle={2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST)},
  pages={322--327},
  year={2013},
  organization={IEEE}
}

2012 (5)

Markov model based experiment comparison. Sharma, S.; and Hussain, A. In 2012 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2012), pages 1–2, 2012. IEEE
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@inproceedings{sharma2012markov,
  title={Markov model based experiment comparison},
  author={Sharma, Swati and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={2012 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2012)},
  pages={1--2},
  year={2012},
  organization={IEEE}
}

NCS security experimentation using DETER. Hussain, A.; and Amin, S. In Proceedings of the 1st international conference on High Confidence Networked Systems, pages 73–80, 2012.
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@inproceedings{hussain2012ncs,
  title={NCS security experimentation using DETER},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Amin, Saurabh},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st international conference on High Confidence Networked Systems},
  pages={73--80},
  year={2012}
}

Reducing allocation errors in network testbeds. Mirkovic, J.; Shi, H.; and Hussain, A. In Proceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference, pages 495–508, 2012.
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2012reducing,
  title={Reducing allocation errors in network testbeds},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Shi, Hao and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference},
  pages={495--508},
  year={2012}
}

Montage topology manager: Tools for constructing and sharing representative internet topologies. Hussain, A.; and Chen, J. Technical Report Technical Report ISI-TR-684, Information Sciences Institute, 2012.
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@techreport{hussain2012montage,
  title={Montage topology manager: Tools for constructing and sharing representative internet topologies},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Chen, Jennifer},
  year={2012},
  institution={Technical Report ISI-TR-684, Information Sciences Institute}
}

Experience with heterogenous clock-skew based device fingerprinting. Sharma, S.; Hussain, A.; and Saran, H. In Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results, pages 9–18, 2012.
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@inproceedings{sharma2012experience,
  title={Experience with heterogenous clock-skew based device fingerprinting},
  author={Sharma, Swati and Hussain, Alefiya and Saran, Huzur},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results},
  pages={9--18},
  year={2012}
}

2011 (3)

A semantic framework for data analysis in networked systems. Viswanathan, A.; Hussain, A.; Mirkovic, J.; Schwab, S.; and Wroclawski, J. In 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 11), 2011.
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@inproceedings{viswanathan2011semantic,
  title={A semantic framework for data analysis in networked systems},
  author={Viswanathan, Arun and Hussain, Alefiya and Mirkovic, Jelena and Schwab, Stephen and Wroclawski, John},
  booktitle={8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 11)},
  year={2011}
}

Multiresolution semantic visualization of network traffic. Hussain, A.; and Viswanathan, A. In 2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing, pages 364–367, 2011. IEEE
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@inproceedings{hussain2011multiresolution,
  title={Multiresolution semantic visualization of network traffic},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Viswanathan, Arun},
  booktitle={2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing},
  pages={364--367},
  year={2011},
  organization={IEEE}
}

ThirdEye for Semantic Analysis of Experiment Data: DETER at a Glance. Viswanathan, A.; and Hussain, A. 2011.
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@misc{viswanathan2011thirdeye,
  title={ThirdEye for Semantic Analysis of Experiment Data: DETER at a Glance},
  author={Viswanathan, Arun and Hussain, Alefiya},
  journal={The DETER Testbed Newsletter},
  year={2011}
}

2010 (1)

Tools for worm experimentation on the DETER testbed. Wei, S.; Hussain, A.; Mirkovic, J.; and Ko, C. International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 5(1-2): 151–171. 2010.
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@article{wei2010tools,
  title={Tools for worm experimentation on the DETER testbed},
  author={Wei, Songjie and Hussain, Alefiya and Mirkovic, Jelena and Ko, Calvin},
  journal={International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems},
  volume={5},
  number={1-2},
  pages={151--171},
  year={2010},
  publisher={Inderscience Publishers}
}

2008 (2)

Accurately measuring denial of service in simulation and testbed experiments. Mirkovic, J.; Hussain, A.; Fahmy, S.; Reiher, P.; and Thomas, R. K IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 6(2): 81–95. 2008.
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@article{mirkovic2008accurately,
  title={Accurately measuring denial of service in simulation and testbed experiments},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Hussain, Alefiya and Fahmy, Sonia and Reiher, Peter and Thomas, Roshan K},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={81--95},
  year={2008},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

Testing a collaborative DDoS defense in a red team/blue team exercise. Mirkovic, J.; Reiher, P.; Papadopoulos, C.; Hussain, A.; Shepard, M.; Berg, M.; and Jung, R. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 57(8): 1098–1112. 2008.
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@article{mirkovic2008testing,
  title={Testing a collaborative DDoS defense in a red team/blue team exercise},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Reiher, Peter and Papadopoulos, Christos and Hussain, Alefiya and Shepard, Marla and Berg, Michael and Jung, Robert},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Computers},
  volume={57},
  number={8},
  pages={1098--1112},
  year={2008},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

2007 (8)

Towards user-centric metrics for denial-of-service measurement. Mirkovic, J.; Hussain, A.; Wilson, B.; Fahmy, S.; Reiher, P.; Thomas, R.; Yao, W.; and Schwab, S. In Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science, pages 8–es, 2007.
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2007towards,
  title={Towards user-centric metrics for denial-of-service measurement},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Hussain, Alefiya and Wilson, Brett and Fahmy, Sonia and Reiher, Peter and Thomas, Roshan and Yao, Wei-Min and Schwab, Stephen},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science},
  pages={8--es},
  year={2007}
}

Seer: A security experimentation environment for deter. Schwab, S.; Wilson, B.; Ko, C.; and Hussain, A. In Proceedings of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test on DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007, pages 2–2, 2007.
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@inproceedings{schwab2007seer,
  title={Seer: A security experimentation environment for deter},
  author={Schwab, Stephen and Wilson, Brett and Ko, Calvin and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test on DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007},
  pages={2--2},
  year={2007}
}

DDoS benchmarks and experimenter's workbench for the DETER testbed. Mirkovic, J.; Wei, S.; Hussain, A.; Wilson, B.; Thomas, R.; Schwab, S.; Fahmy, S.; Chertov, R.; and Reiher, P. In 2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities, pages 1–7, 2007. IEEE
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2007ddos,
  title={DDoS benchmarks and experimenter's workbench for the DETER testbed},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Wei, Songjie and Hussain, Alefiya and Wilson, Brett and Thomas, Roshan and Schwab, Stephen and Fahmy, Sonia and Chertov, Roman and Reiher, Peter},
  booktitle={2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities},
  pages={1--7},
  year={2007},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Automating DDoS Experimentation. Mirkovic, J.; Wilson, B.; Hussain, A.; Fahmy, S.; Reiher, P.; Thomas, R.; and Schwab, S. In Usenix Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation, 2007.
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2007automating,
  title={Automating DDoS Experimentation.},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Wilson, Brett and Hussain, Alefiya and Fahmy, Sonia and Reiher, Peter and Thomas, Roshan and Schwab, Stephen},
  booktitle={Usenix Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation},
  year={2007}
}

When is service really denied? a user-centric dos metric. Mirkovic, J.; Hussain, A.; Willson, B.; Fahmy, S.; Yao, W.; Reiher, P.; Schwab, S.; and Thomas, R. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, pages 357–358, 2007.
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2007service,
  title={When is service really denied? a user-centric dos metric},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Hussain, Alefiya and Willson, Brett and Fahmy, Sonia and Yao, Wei-Min and Reiher, Peter and Schwab, Stephen and Thomas, Roshan},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems},
  pages={357--358},
  year={2007}
}

A user-centric metric for denial-of-service measurement. Mirkovic, J.; Hussain, A.; Wilson, B.; Fahmy, S.; Reiher, P.; Thomas, R.; Yao, W.; and Schwab, S. In Proc. of Workshop on Experimental Comp. Sci, 2007.
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2007user,
  title={A user-centric metric for denial-of-service measurement},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Hussain, Alefiya and Wilson, Brett and Fahmy, Sonia and Reiher, Peter and Thomas, Roshan and Yao, Wei-Min and Schwab, Stephen},
  booktitle={Proc. of Workshop on Experimental Comp. Sci},
  year={2007}
}

DDoS benchmarks and experimentation workbench for the DETER testbed. Mirkovic, J.; Wei, S.; Hussain, A.; Wilson, B.; Thomas, R.; and Schwab, S. In In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2007, 2007.
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2007ddos,
  title={DDoS benchmarks and experimentation workbench for the DETER testbed},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Wei, Songjie and Hussain, Alefiya and Wilson, Brett and Thomas, Roshan and Schwab, Stephen},
  booktitle={In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2007},
  year={2007}
}

$\{$SEER$\}$: A Security Experimentation $\{$EnviRonment$\}$ for $\{$DETER$\}$. Wilson, B.; Ko, C.; and Hussain, A. In DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007 (DETER 2007), 2007.
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@inproceedings{wilson2007seer,
  title={$\{$SEER$\}$: A Security Experimentation $\{$EnviRonment$\}$ for $\{$DETER$\}$},
  author={Wilson, Brett and Ko, Calvin and Hussain, Alefiya},
  booktitle={DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007 (DETER 2007)},
  year={2007}
}

2006 (5)

Identification of repeated denial of service attacks. Hussain, A.; Heidemann, J.; and Papadopoulos, C. In INFOCOM 2006. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings, pages 1–15, 2006. IEEE
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@inproceedings{hussain2006identification,
  title={Identification of repeated denial of service attacks},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Heidemann, John and Papadopoulos, Christos},
  booktitle={INFOCOM 2006. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings},
  pages={1--15},
  year={2006},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Measuring denial of service. Mirkovic, J.; Reiher, P.; Fahmy, S.; Thomas, R.; Hussain, A.; Schwab, S.; and Ko, C. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Quality of protection, pages 53–58, 2006.
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2006measuring,
  title={Measuring denial of service},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Reiher, Peter and Fahmy, Sonia and Thomas, Roshan and Hussain, Alefiya and Schwab, Stephen and Ko, Calvin},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Quality of protection},
  pages={53--58},
  year={2006}
}

DDoS experiment methodology. Hussain, A.; Schwab, S.; Thomas, R.; Fahmy, S.; and Mirkovic, J. In Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation, volume 8, 2006.
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@inproceedings{hussain2006ddos,
  title={DDoS experiment methodology},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Schwab, Stephen and Thomas, Roshan and Fahmy, Sonia and Mirkovic, Jelena},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation},
  volume={8},
  year={2006}
}

Measuring impact of dos attacks. Mirkovic, J.; Fahmy, S.; Reiher, P.; Thomas, R.; Hussain, A.; Schwab, S.; and Ko, C. In Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation, 2006.
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@inproceedings{mirkovic2006measuring,
  title={Measuring impact of dos attacks},
  author={Mirkovic, Jelena and Fahmy, Sonia and Reiher, Peter and Thomas, Roshan and Hussain, Alefiya and Schwab, Steven and Ko, Calvin},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation},
  year={2006}
}

Towards systematic IDS evaluation. Ko, C.; Hussain, A.; Schwab, S.; Thomas, R.; and Wilson, B. In Proceedings of DETER Community Workshop, pages 20–23, 2006.
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@inproceedings{ko2006towards,
  title={Towards systematic IDS evaluation},
  author={Ko, Calvin and Hussain, Alefiya and Schwab, Stephen and Thomas, Roshan and Wilson, Brett},
  booktitle={Proceedings of DETER Community Workshop},
  pages={20--23},
  year={2006}
}

2005 (3)

Experiences with a continuous network tracing infrastructure. Hussain, A.; Bartlett, G.; Pryadkin, Y.; Heidemann, J.; Papadopoulos, C.; and Bannister, J. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Mining network data, pages 185–190, 2005.
link bibtex

@inproceedings{hussain2005experiences,
  title={Experiences with a continuous network tracing infrastructure},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Bartlett, Genevieve and Pryadkin, Yuri and Heidemann, John and Papadopoulos, Christos and Bannister, Joseph},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Mining network data},
  pages={185--190},
  year={2005}
}

Measurement and spectral analysis of denial of service attacks. Hussain, A. N.; Adviser-Heidemann, J.; and Adviser-Papadopoulos, C. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southern California, 2005.
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@phdthesis{hussain2005measurement,
  title={Measurement and spectral analysis of denial of service attacks},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya Naveed and Adviser-Heidemann, John and Adviser-Papadopoulos, Christos},
  year={2005},
  school={University of Southern California}
}

Spectral analysis of bottleneck traffic. He, X.; Papadopoulos, C.; Heidemann, J.; Mitra, U.; Riaz, U.; and Hussain, A. University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science, Tech. Rep. USC-CSDTR-05-854. 2005.
link bibtex

@article{he2005spectral,
  title={Spectral analysis of bottleneck traffic},
  author={He, Xinming and Papadopoulos, Christos and Heidemann, John and Mitra, Urbashi and Riaz, Usman and Hussain, Alefiya},
  journal={University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science, Tech. Rep. USC-CSDTR-05-854},
  year={2005}
}

2004 (3)

Spectral characteristics of saturated links. He, X.; Papadopoulos, C.; Heidemann, J.; and Hussain, A. Under Submission. 2004.
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@article{he2004spectral,
  title={Spectral characteristics of saturated links},
  author={He, Xinming and Papadopoulos, Christos and Heidemann, John and Hussain, Alefiya},
  journal={Under Submission},
  year={2004}
}

The effect of detail on Ethernet simulation. Hussain, A.; Kapoor, A.; and Heidemann, J. In 18th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, 2004. PADS 2004., pages 97–104, 2004. IEEE
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@inproceedings{hussain2004effect,
  title={The effect of detail on Ethernet simulation},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Kapoor, Aman and Heidemann, John},
  booktitle={18th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, 2004. PADS 2004.},
  pages={97--104},
  year={2004},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Distinguishing between single and multi-source attacks using signal processing. Hussain, A.; Heidemann, J.; and Papadopoulos, C. Computer Networks, 46(4): 479–503. 2004.
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@article{hussain2004distinguishing,
  title={Distinguishing between single and multi-source attacks using signal processing},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Heidemann, John and Papadopoulos, Christos},
  journal={Computer Networks},
  volume={46},
  number={4},
  pages={479--503},
  year={2004},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

2003 (3)

A framework for classifying denial of service attacks. Hussain, A.; Heidemann, J.; and Papadopoulos, C. In Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications, pages 99–110, 2003.
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@inproceedings{hussain2003framework,
  title={A framework for classifying denial of service attacks},
  author={Hussain, Alefiya and Heidemann, John and Papadopoulos, Christos},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications},
  pages={99--110},
  year={2003}
}

Cossack: Coordinated suppression of simultaneous attacks. Papadopoulos, C.; Lindell, R.; Mehringer, J.; Hussain, A.; and Govindan, R. In Proceedings DARPA information survivability conference and exposition, volume 1, pages 2–13, 2003. IEEE
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@inproceedings{papadopoulos2003cossack,
  title={Cossack: Coordinated suppression of simultaneous attacks},
  author={Papadopoulos, Christos and Lindell, Robert and Mehringer, John and Hussain, Alefiya and Govindan, Ramesh},
  booktitle={Proceedings DARPA information survivability conference and exposition},
  volume={1},
  pages={2--13},
  year={2003},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Effect of malicious traffic on the network. Lan, K.; Hussain, A.; and Dutta, D. In Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), 2003.
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@inproceedings{lan2003effect,
  title={Effect of malicious traffic on the network},
  author={Lan, Kun-chan and Hussain, Alefiya and Dutta, Debojyoti},
  booktitle={Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM)},
  year={2003}
}