Publications
Book Chapter
DETERLab and the DETER Project
John Wroclawski, Terry Benzel, Blythe, Jim, Faber, Ted, Hussain, Alefiya, Jelena Mirkovic, Stephen SchwabIn The GENI Book
2016, 35–62 pages
Conference Paper
Foundations of infrastructure-CPS
Annaswamy, Anuradha M, Hussainy, Alefiya, Chakraborttyz, Aranya, Cvetković, MilošIn 2016 American Control Conference (ACC)
2016, 2649–2664 pages
Optimizing defensive investments in energy-based cyber-physical systems
Wood, Paul, Bagchi, Saurabh, Hussain, AlefiyaIn 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 SchwabIn Usenix Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation
2007
The effect of detail on Ethernet simulation
Hussain, Alefiya, Aman Kapoor, John HeidemannIn 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, PeterIn 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, CalvinIn Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation
2006
DDoS experiment methodology
Hussain, Alefiya, Stephen Schwab, Thomas, Roshan, Sonia Fahmy, Jelena MirkovicIn 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, AlefiyaIn 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 SchwabIn 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, CalvinIn 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, JosephIn 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 PapadopoulosIn 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 DuttaIn Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM)
2003
Cossack: Coordinated suppression of simultaneous attacks
Christos Papadopoulos, Robert Lindell, John Mehringer, Hussain, Alefiya, Ramesh GovindanIn Proceedings DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition
2003, 2–13 pages
A framework for classifying denial of service attacks
Hussain, Alefiya, John Heidemann, Christos PapadopoulosIn 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, AlefiyaIn 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, RoshanIn 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, CalvinIn 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, AlefiyaIn Proceedings of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test on DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test
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 SchwabIn Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science
2007, 8–es pages
A Comparative Study of Network Testbed Usage Characteristics
Jelena Mirkovic, Hussain, Alefiya, Hao ShiIn 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, AlefiyaIn 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, othersIn 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, AlefiyaIn DETER
2007
Replay of malicious traffic in network testbeds
Hussain, Alefiya, Yuri Pradkin, John HeidemannIn 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, AlefiyaIn 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 Schwab2020
Toward Orchestration of Complex Networking Experiments
Hussain, Alefiya, Jaipuria, Prateek, Lawler, Geoff, Stephen Schwab, Terry BenzelIn 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, AlefiyaIn 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC)
2018, 3822–3827 pages
Tutorial: Resilience, a key property of Infrastructure CPS
Hussain, AlefiyaIn 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, AlefiyaIn 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)
2016, 1–8 pages
Multiresolution semantic visualization of network traffic
Hussain, Alefiya, Viswanathan, ArunIn 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 WroclawskiIn 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, BrettIn Proceedings of DETER Community Workshop
2006, 20–23 pages
Experience with heterogenous clock-skew based device fingerprinting
Sharma, Swati, Hussain, Alefiya, Saran, HuzurIn 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, AlefiyaIn 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, CalvinIn 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 PapadopoulosIn 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 GovindanIn Proceedings DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition
2003, 2–13 pages
A Framework for classifying Denial of Dervice Attacks
Hussain, Alefiya, John Heidemann, Christos PapadopoulosIn 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, SaurabhIn Proceedings of the 1st international conference on High Confidence Networked Systems
2012, 73–80 pages
Markov model based experiment comparison
Sharma, Swati, Hussain, AlefiyaIn 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 SchwabIn 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 SchwabIn 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, RoshanIn 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 PapadopoulosIn Computer Networks
2004, 479–503 pages
Spectral characteristics of saturated links
Xinming He, Christos Papadopoulos, John Heidemann, Hussain, AlefiyaIn Under Submission
2004
Accurately measuring denial of service in simulation and testbed experiments
Jelena Mirkovic, Hussain, Alefiya, Sonia Fahmy, Reiher, Peter, Thomas, Roshan KIn 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, HuzurIn 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 MIn 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 M2017
Delay-aware wide-area control of power systems over sparse communications with analytical guarantees
Dibaji, Seyed Mehran, Annaswamy, Anuradha, Chakrabortty, Aranya, Hussain, Alefiya2018
DBit: assessing statistically significant differences in CDN performance
Akhtar, Zahaib, Hussain, Alefiya, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Ramesh GovindanIn Computer Networks
2016, 94–103 pages
Dbit: A methodology for comparing content distribution networks
Akhtar, Zahaib, Hussain, Alefiya, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Ramesh GovindanIn 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, CalvinIn International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
2010, 151–171 pages
In quest of benchmarking security risks to cyber-physical systems
Amin, Saurabh, Schwartz, Galina A, Hussain, AlefiyaIn IEEE Network
2013, 19–24 pages
Testing a collaborative DDoS defense in a red team/blue team exercise
Jelena Mirkovic, Reiher, Peter, Christos Papadopoulos, Hussain, Alefiya, Shepard, Marla, Berg, Michael, Jung, RobertIn IEEE Transactions on Computers
2008, 1098–1112 pages
Spectral analysis of bottleneck traffic
Xinming He, Christos Papadopoulos, John Heidemann, Urbashi Mitra, Usman Riaz, Hussain, AlefiyaIn University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science, Tech. Rep. USC-CSDTR-05-854
2005
Miscellaneous
ThirdEye for Semantic Analysis of Experiment Data: DETER at a Glance
Viswanathan, Arun, Hussain, AlefiyaIn The DETER Testbed Newsletter
2011
Technical Report
Montage topology manager: Tools for constructing and sharing representative internet topologies
Hussain, Alefiya, Chen, Jennifer2012
Thesis
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