Research

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Archives (2004 and prior)
- Wormability: A Metric for Predicting Global Worm Attacks
  Jose Nazario - Presentation
  Presented at the CSI 31st Annual Computer Security Conference and Exhibition.
- Tracking Global Threats with the Internet Motion Sensor
  Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks; Tim Battles, AT&T; Michael Bailey and Evan Cooke, University of Michigan - Presentation
  As national utility infrastructures become intertwined with emerging global data networks, the stability and integrity of the two have become synonymous. This connection, while necessary, leaves network assets vulnerable to the rapidly moving threats of today's Internet, including distributed denial of service attacks, fast moving worms, and routing exploits. This presentation introduces the Internet Motion Sensor (IMS), a globally scoped Internet monitoring system whose goal is to measure, characterize, and track threats.
- Wormability: A Description for Vulnerabilities
  Jose Nazario, Dug Song, Tom Ptacek - Research Paper
- Toward Understanding Distributed Blackhole Placement
  Farnam Jahanian and Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks; Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey and David Watson, University of Michigan - Research Paper
  Presented at The 2nd Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM).
- The Evolving Internet Worm Ecology
  Jose Nazario - Presentation
  Presented at CSI NetSec '04.
- The Evolving Threat of Internet Worms
  Jose Nazario - Presentation
  RSA Conference 2004
- Measuring Global Worm Activity
  Danny McPherson and Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks; Michael Bailey, University of Michigan - Presentation
  Presented at NANOG 30
- BGP: Good MEDs Gone Bad
  Danny McPherson - Presentation
  NANOG 29
- The Blaster Worm: The View From 10,000 Feet
  Jose Nazario - Presentation
  NANOG 29
- ISP Security: Deploying and Using Sinkholes
  Danny McPherson and Barry Greene (Cisco Systems) - Presentation
  NANOG 28
- A Snapshot of Global Worm Activity
  D. Song, R. Malan, R. Stone - Research Paper
- Observations and Experiences Tracking Denial-Of-Service Attacks Across a Large Regional ISP
  Rob Malan, Farnam Jahanian, Jon Arnold, Matthew Smart, Univ. of Mich.; Paul Howell, Russell Dwarshius, Jeff Ogden, Jon Poland, Merit - Research Paper
- CenterTrack: An IP Overlay Network for Tracking DoS Floods
  Robert Stone - Research Paper
  Proceedings of the 2000 USENIX Security Symposium, pages 199-- 212, Denver, CO.
- Passwords Found on a Wireless Network
  D. Song - Research Paper
  USENIX Technical Conference WIP
- Experiences with Group Communication Middleware
  Scott Johnson and Farnam Jahanian - Research Paper
  Practical Experience Report, Proceedings of DSN-2000 (formerly FTCS-30). New York, New York. 2000.
- Constructing Real-time Group Communication Middleware Using the Resource Kernel
  Scott Johnson, Farnam Jahanian, Akihiko Miyoshi, Dionisio de Niz, and Ragunathan Rajkumar - Research Paper
  Proceedings of RTSS-2000. Orlando, Florida. pp. 3-12.
- Experimental Study of Internet Stability and Wide-Area Network Failures
  C. Labovitz, A. Ahuja, F. Jahanian - Research Paper
  in the Proceedings of FTCS99, Madison, WI, June 22, 1999.
- Software Architecture for the UARC Web-Based Collaboratory
  Sushila Subramanian, G. Robert Malan, Hyong Sop Shim, Jang Ho Lee, Peter Knoop, Terry Weymouth, Farnam Jahanian, and Atul Prakash - Research Paper
- ARMADA Middleware and Communication Services
  Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Scott Dawson, Wu-chang Feng, Farnam Jahanian, Scott Johnson, Ashish Mehra, Todd Mitton, Anees Shaikh, Kang G. Shin, Zhiqun Wang, Hengming Zou, M. Bjorkland, and P. Marron. - Research Paper
  Real-Time Systems Journal 16(2-3). pp. 127-153. 1999.
- Attribute-Based Data Dissemination for Internet Applications
  G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, and Sushila Subramanian - Research Paper
  to appear in Journal of High Speed Networks, Special Issue On Multimedia Networking, 1999.
- Scalable Group Composition with End-to-end Delivery Semantics
  Scott Johnson, Farnam Jahanian, and Jigney Shah - Research Paper
  Proceedings of ICDCS 1999. pp. 4-14.
- Optimization of a Real-Time Primary-Backup Replication Service
  Research Paper
  Real-Time Primary-Backup Replication with Temporal Consistency Guarantees
  Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Oct. 1998.
- Real-Time Primary-Backup Replication with Temporal Consistency Guarantees
  Hengmin Zou and Farnam Jahanian - Research Paper
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1998.
- Salamander: A Push-based Distribution Substrate for Internet Applications
  G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, and Sushila Subramanian - Research Paper
  Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, December 1997; Monterey, California.
- Design and Evaluation of a Window-Consistent Replication Service
  Ashish Mehra, Jennifer Rexford, and Farnam Jahanian - Research Paper
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 46, no. 9, Sept. 1997.
- Providing Flexible Services for Managing Shared State in Collaborative Systems
  H.-S. Shim, R. Hall, A. Prakash, and F. Jahanian - Research Paper
  in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 97)}, Lancaster, UK, September 1997.
- Internet Routing Instability
  C. Labovitz, G.R. Malan, and F. Jahanian - Research Paper
  Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Best Student Paper Award, Sept. 1997, (Extended version to appear in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking)
- An Application-level Quality of Service Architecture for Internet Collaboratories
  G. Robert Malan and Farnam Jahanian - Research Paper
  Proceedings of the IEEE RTSS Workshop on Resource Allocation Problems in Multimedia Systems, Washington, DC, December 1996.
- An MS-DOS File System for UNIX
  Alessandro Forin and Gerald R. Malan - Research Paper
  An extended version of a paper that appeared in the 1994 Winter USENIX Conference., January 1994; San Francisco, California.
- Shining Light on Dark Internet Address Space
  Craig Labovitz and Abha Ahuja, Merit Network/Arbor Networks - Research Paper
2005 to Present
- Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report Volume V
  This report is designed to provide data useful to network operators so that they can make informed decisions about their use of network security technology to protect their mission-critical infrastructure.
- Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, Volume IV
- Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, Volume III
- Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, Volume II
- Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, Volume I
  Danny McPherson, Craig Labovitz - Research Paper
- Attack Fingerprint Sharing: The Need for Automation of Inter-Domain Information Sharing
  Danny McPherson - Presentation
  Presented at the FRNOG 7 Meeting in Paris, France.
- SP Infrastructure Security Survey Results
  Danny McPherson - Presentation
  Presented at the FRNOG 7 Meeting in Paris, France.
- Backbone Attack Detection and Mitigation Methodologies
  Danny McPherson, Craig Labovitz, and Farnam Jahanian - Presentation
  Presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
- The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets
  Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, and Danny McPherson - Presentation
  Presented at Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet Workshop (SRUTI '05) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Fingerprint Sharing: The Need for Automation of Inter-Domain Information Sharing
  Danny McPherson - Presentation
  Presented at RIPE 50 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- BGP Security Techniques
  Danny McPherson - Presentation
  Presented at APRICOT 2005 in Kyoto, Japan.

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