Auditing Internet Content and ISPs

• Measuring Web Servers' Popularity from an Endpoint
  A.-J. Su and A. Kuzmanovic
  Tech. Report NWU-EECS-15-03, Department of EECS, Northwestern University, October 2015.
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  How one can measure a Web server's popularity from an endpoint.


• Synthoid: Endpoint User Profile Control
  M. Flores and A. Kuzmanovic
  In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Warsaw, Poland, August 2014.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | slides | review ]
  How to control your profile at online trackers.


• How to Improve Your Search Engine Ranking: Myths and Reality
  A.-J. Su, Y. C. Hu, A. Kuzmanovic, and C.-K. Koh
  In ACM Transactions on the Web, March 2014.
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  An extended version of the WI 2010 paper.


• A Glance at an Overlooked Part of the World Wide Web
  I. Trestian, C. Xiao, and A. Kuzmanovic
  Proceedings of the 1st International Web Observatory Workshop, WOW2013, Rio De Janerio, Brazil, May 2013.
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  A large-scale analysis of adult online services. Warning: Rated R.


• Measurement and Diagnosis of Address-Misconfigured P2P Traffic
  Z. Li, A. Goyal, Y. Chen, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In IEEE Network Magazine, 2011.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review ]
  An extended version of the Infocom 2010 paper.


• Understanding the Network and User-Targeting Properties of Web Advertising Networks
  Y. Wang, D. Burgener, A. Kuzmanovic, and G. Macia
  In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS 2011, Minneapolis, MN, June 2011.
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  The paper analyzes the properties of Web advertising networks.


• Extracting User Web Browsing Patterns from Non-Content Network Traces: The Online Advertising Case Study
  G. Macia, Y. Wang, R. Rodriguez, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In Journal of Computer Networks, to appear, 2011.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review ]
  An extended version of the INFOCOM 2010 paper.


• How to Improve Your Google Ranking: Myths and Reality
  A.-J. Su, Y. C. Hu, A. Kuzmanovic, and C.-K. Koh
  In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Toronto, Canada, August 2010.
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  How you should update your web page so that it gets highly ranked by Google.


• Measurement Lab: Overview and an Invitation to the Research Community
  C. Dovrolis, K. Gummadi, A. Kuzmanovic, and S. Meinrath
  In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (editorial note), Volume 40, Number 3, July 2010.
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  The paper presents an overview of the Measurement Lab.


• Analyzing Content-Level Properties of the Web Adversphere
  Y. Wang, D. Burgener, A. Kuzmanovic, and G. Macia
  Poster paper in Proceedings of WWW 2010, Raleigh, NC, April 2010.
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  A short paper describing our initial efforts on building a content-level auditing service for web-based ad networks.


• ISP-Enabled Behavioral Ad Targeting without Deep Packet Inspection
  G. Macia, Y. Wang, R. Rodriguez, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, March 2010.
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  The paper explains how ISPs can generate accurate user profiles and perform behavioral ad targeting without inspecting the packet payload.


• Measurement and Diagnosis of Address-Misconfigured P2P Traffic
  Z. Li, A. Goyal, Y. Chen, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, March 2010.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  The paper shows that p2p misconfigurations are remarkably prevalent, and diagnoses the root causes of this phenomenon in different p2p systems.


• Monitoring Persistently Congested Internet Links
  L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic
  In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2008, Orlando, FL, October 2008.
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  How you can locate and monitor persistently congested Internet links efficiently.


• Monitoring Network Bias
  G. Biczok, W. Young, and A. Kuzmanovic
  Poster paper in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008.
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  A short paper describing our initial efforts on monitoring network bias.


• What Lies Beneath: Understanding Internet Congestion
  L. Deng, A. Kuzmanovic, and B. Davie
  Tech. Report NWU-EECS-07-12, Department of EECS, Northwestern University, October 2007.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt ]
  Measurement and analysis on the congestion in the Internet core.


• Pong: Diagnosing Spatio-Temporal Internet Congestion Properties
  L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic
  Poster paper in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2007, San Diego, CA, June 2007.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | .ppt.gz| review ]
  How you can accurately locate and characterize congestion in the Internet.
  Pong's source code and measurement data could be downloaded here.


• Measuring Service in Multi-Class Networks
  A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
  In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2001, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review | response ]
  How you can infer multi-class network mechanisms and parameters.