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Book Chapter

DETERLab and the DETER Project

John Wroclawski, Terry Benzel, Blythe, Jim, Faber, Ted, Hussain, Alefiya, Jelena Mirkovic, Stephen Schwab
In The GENI Book
2016, 35–62 pages

Conference Paper

Foundations of infrastructure-CPS

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

Optimizing defensive investments in energy-based cyber-physical systems

Wood, Paul, Bagchi, Saurabh, Hussain, Alefiya
In 2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop
2015, 1042–1051 pages

Automating DDoS Experimentation.

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

The effect of detail on Ethernet simulation

Hussain, Alefiya, Aman Kapoor, John Heidemann
In 18th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, 2004. PADS 2004.
2004, 97–104 pages

DDoS benchmarks and experimenter's workbench for the DETER testbed

Jelena Mirkovic, Wei, Songjie, Hussain, Alefiya, Wilson, Brett, Thomas, Roshan, Stephen Schwab, Sonia Fahmy, Chertov, Roman, Reiher, Peter
In 2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities
2007, 1–7 pages

Measuring impact of dos attacks

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

DDoS experiment methodology

Hussain, Alefiya, Stephen Schwab, Thomas, Roshan, Sonia Fahmy, Jelena Mirkovic
In Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation
2006

Seer: A security experimentation environment for deter

Stephen Schwab, Wilson, Brett, Ko, Calvin, Hussain, Alefiya
In Proceedings of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test on DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007
2007, 2–2 pages

Towards user-centric metrics for denial-of-service measurement

Jelena Mirkovic, Hussain, Alefiya, Wilson, Brett, Sonia Fahmy, Reiher, Peter, Thomas, Roshan, Yao, Wei-Min, Stephen Schwab
In Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science
2007, 8–es pages

Measuring denial of service

Jelena Mirkovic, Reiher, Peter, Sonia Fahmy, Thomas, Roshan, Hussain, Alefiya, Stephen Schwab, Ko, Calvin
In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Quality of protection
2006, 53–58 pages

Experiences with a continuous network tracing infrastructure

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

Identification of repeated denial of service attacks

Hussain, Alefiya, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos
In INFOCOM 2006. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings
2006, 1–15 pages

Effect of malicious traffic on the network

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

Cossack: Coordinated suppression of simultaneous attacks

Christos Papadopoulos, Robert Lindell, John Mehringer, Hussain, Alefiya, Ramesh Govindan
In Proceedings DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition
2003, 2–13 pages

A framework for classifying denial of service attacks

Hussain, Alefiya, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos
In Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
2003, 99–110 pages

Mitigating Denial-of-Service attacks in wide-area LQR control

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

When is service really denied? a user-centric DoS metric

Jelena Mirkovic, Hussain, Alefiya, Willson, Brett, Sonia Fahmy, Yao, Wei-Min, Reiher, Peter, Stephen Schwab, Thomas, Roshan
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
2007, 357–358 pages

Measuring impact of DoS attacks

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

SEER: A security experimentation environment for DETER

Towards user-centric metrics for Denial-of-Service measurement

A Comparative Study of Network Testbed Usage Characteristics

Jelena Mirkovic, Hussain, Alefiya, Hao Shi
In Usenix Conference on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER)
2017

A distributed optimization algorithm for attack-resilient wide-area monitoring of power systems: Theoretical and experimental methods

Zhang, Jianhua, Jaipuria, Prateek, Chakrabortty, Aranya, Hussain, Alefiya
In International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security
2014, 350–359 pages

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

Hussain, Alefiya, Faber, Ted, Robert Braden, Terry Benzel, Yardley, Tim, Jones, Jeremy, Nicol, David M, Sanders, William H, Edgar, Thomas W, Carroll, Thomas E, others
In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
2014, 358–360 pages

SEER: A Security Experimentation EnviRonment for DETER.

Wilson, Brett, Ko, Calvin, Hussain, Alefiya
In DETER
2007

Replay of malicious traffic in network testbeds

Hussain, Alefiya, Yuri Pradkin, John Heidemann
In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST)
2013, 322–327 pages

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

Wood, Paul, Bagchi, Saurabh, Hussain, Alefiya
In 2017 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)
2017, 158–165 pages

Replicated Testbed Experiments for the Evaluation of a Wide-range of DDoS Defenses

Hussain, Alefiya, DeAngelis, David, Kline, Erik, Stephen Schwab
2020

Toward Orchestration of Complex Networking Experiments

Hussain, Alefiya, Jaipuria, Prateek, Lawler, Geoff, Stephen Schwab, Terry Benzel
In 13th $$USENIX$$ Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test ($$CSET$$ 20)
2020

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

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

Tutorial: Resilience, a key property of Infrastructure CPS

Hussain, Alefiya
In 2016 American Control Conference (ACC)
2016, 2668–2668 pages

Defending against strategic adversaries in dynamic pricing markets for smart grids

Wood, Paul, Bagchi, Saurabh, Hussain, Alefiya
In 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)
2016, 1–8 pages

Multiresolution semantic visualization of network traffic

Hussain, Alefiya, Viswanathan, Arun
In 2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing
2011, 364–367 pages

A semantic framework for data analysis in networked systems

Viswanathan, Arun, Hussain, Alefiya, Jelena Mirkovic, Stephen Schwab, John Wroclawski
In Proc. USENIX Symp. Netw. Syst. Des. Implement.(NSDI)
2011, 127–140 pages

Towards systematic IDS evaluation

Ko, Calvin, Hussain, Alefiya, Stephen Schwab, Thomas, Roshan, Wilson, Brett
In Proceedings of DETER Community Workshop
2006, 20–23 pages

Experience with heterogenous clock-skew based device fingerprinting

Sharma, Swati, Hussain, Alefiya, Saran, Huzur
In Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results
2012, 9–18 pages

Reducing allocation errors in network testbeds

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

Measuring Denial of Service

Jelena Mirkovic, Reiher, Peter, Sonia Fahmy, Thomas, Roshan, Hussain, Alefiya, Stephen Schwab, Ko, Calvin
In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Quality of protection
2006, 53–58 pages

Identification of repeated Denial of Service Attacks

Hussain, Alefiya, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos
In 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings (INFOCOM)
2006, 1–15 pages

COSSACK: Coordinated suppression of simultaneous attacks

Christos Papadopoulos, Robert Lindell, John Mehringer, Hussain, Alefiya, Ramesh Govindan
In Proceedings DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition
2003, 2–13 pages

A Framework for classifying Denial of Dervice Attacks

Hussain, Alefiya, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos
In Proceedings of the Conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications (SIGCOMM)
2003, 99–110 pages

NCS security experimentation using DETER

Hussain, Alefiya, Amin, Saurabh
In Proceedings of the 1st international conference on High Confidence Networked Systems
2012, 73–80 pages

Markov model based experiment comparison

Sharma, Swati, Hussain, Alefiya
In 2012 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2012)
2012, 1–2 pages

DDoS benchmarks and experimentation workbench for the DETER testbed

Jelena Mirkovic, Wei, Songjie, Hussain, Alefiya, Wilson, Brett, Thomas, Roshan, Stephen Schwab
In In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2007
2007

A user-centric metric for denial-of-service measurement

Jelena Mirkovic, Hussain, Alefiya, Wilson, Brett, Sonia Fahmy, Reiher, Peter, Thomas, Roshan, Yao, Wei-Min, Stephen Schwab
In Proc. of Workshop on Experimental Comp. Sci
2007

When is service really denied? a user-centric dos metric

Jelena Mirkovic, Hussain, Alefiya, Willson, Brett, Sonia Fahmy, Yao, Wei-Min, Reiher, Peter, Stephen Schwab, Thomas, Roshan
In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
2007, 357–358 pages

Journal Article

Distinguishing between single and multi-source attacks using signal processing

Hussain, Alefiya, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos
In Computer Networks
2004, 479–503 pages

Spectral characteristics of saturated links

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

Accurately measuring denial of service in simulation and testbed experiments

Jelena Mirkovic, Hussain, Alefiya, Sonia Fahmy, Reiher, Peter, Thomas, Roshan K
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
2008, 81–95 pages

Towards repeatability & verifiability in networking experiments: A stochastic framework

Sharma, Swati, Hussain, Alefiya, Saran, Huzur
In Journal of Network and Computer Applications
2017, 12–23 pages

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

Wood, Paul, Shiltz, Dylan, Nudell, Thomas R, Hussain, Alefiya, Annaswamy, Anuradha M
In IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
2016, 2904–2912 pages

Towards resilient cyber-physical energy systems

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

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

Dibaji, Seyed Mehran, Annaswamy, Anuradha, Chakrabortty, Aranya, Hussain, Alefiya
2018

DBit: assessing statistically significant differences in CDN performance

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

Dbit: A methodology for comparing content distribution networks

Akhtar, Zahaib, Hussain, Alefiya, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Ramesh Govindan
In University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Tech. Rep
2015, 15–957 pages

Tools for worm experimentation on the DETER testbed

Wei, Songjie, Hussain, Alefiya, Jelena Mirkovic, Ko, Calvin
In International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
2010, 151–171 pages