Northwestern Networks Group's Publications


2008
  • Unconstrained Endpoint Profiling (Googling the Internet)
    I. Trestian, S. Ranjan, A. Kuzmanovic, and A. Nucci
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review ]
    How you can use Google to profile Internet endpoints.

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

  • Relative Network Positioning via CDN Redirections
    A.-J. Su, D. Choffnes, F. Bustamante, and A. Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS 2008, Beijing, China, June 2008.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    How you can use CDNs' redirections for network positioning.

  • Pollution Attacks and Defenses for Internet Caching Systems
    L. Deng, Y. Gao, Y. Chen, and A. Kuzmanovic
    In Journal of Computer Networks, 52(5): 935-956, April 2008.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review | response ]
    An extended version of the ICNP 2006 paper.

2007
  • A Poisoning-Resilient TCP Stack
    A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2007, Beijing, China, October 2007.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    How you can protect your TCP connection from poisoning attacks, yet without using cryptography.

  • 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.

  • When TCP Friendliness Becomes Harmful
    A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, May, 2007.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    How you can improve interactive applications' performance, yet without "getting caught."

  • Receiver-Centric Congestion Control with a Misbehaving Receiver: Vulnerabilities and End-Point Solutions
    A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
    To appear in Journal of Computer Networks.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review | response ]
    An extended version of the ICNP 2004 paper.

2006
  • Internet Cache Pollution Attacks and Countermeasures
    Y. Gao, L. Deng, A. Kuzmanovic, and Y. Chen
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, November 2006.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    How you can detect and protect against cache-targeted pollution attacks.
    A Squid-based implementation could be downloaded here.

  • On the Use of Parallel Connections in Web Browsers
    D. Choffnes, J. Lange, S. Rossoff, and A. Kuzmanovic
    Tech. Report NWU-EECS-06-15, Department of EECS, Northwestern University, October 2006.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz ]
    Analysis and implications of popular web browsers' behavior.
    Simulation scripts and Linux code could be download here.

  • Drafting Behind Akamai (Travelocity-Based Detouring)
    A.-J. Su, D. Choffnes, A. Kuzmanovic, and F. Bustamante
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2006, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    How overlay networks can reuse measurements collected by CDNs.
    Measurement data sets are available here; a BitTorrent plugin could be downloaded here.

  • TCP-LP: Low-Priority Service via End-Point Congestion Control
    A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
    In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(4), August 2006.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review | response ]
    An extended version of the INFOCOM 2003 paper.
    The official TCP-LP patch for Linux is avilable here.

  • Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks and Counter Strategies
    A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
    In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(4), August 2006.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review/response ]
    An extended version of the SIGCOMM 2003 paper.

2005
  • Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to TCP’s SYN/ACK Packets
    A. Kuzmanovic, S. Floyd, and K.K. Ramakrishnan
    draft-kuzmanovic-ecn-syn-00.txt, Internet-draft, work-in-progress, October 2005.
    [ .txt | .txt.gz ] (Local copy)
    An Internet draft based on the SIGCOMM 2005 paper.

  • The Power of Explicit Congestion Notification
    A. Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    How and why ECN helps you, and why people should "turn it on."

  • Denial-of-Service Resilience in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems
    D. Dumitriu, E. Knightly, A. Kuzmanovic, I. Stoica, and W. Zwaenepoel
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2005.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    Why are pollution attacks against peer-to-peer systems so successful?

2004 and before
  • A Performance vs. Trust Perspective in the Design of End-Point Congestion Control Protocols
    A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2004, Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    How to fix the security problems of receiver-driven TCP stacks.
    NS-2 simulator source code and scripts can be downloaded here.

  • Edge-Based Inference, Control, and Denial-of-Service Resilience for the Internet
    A. Kuzmanovic
    Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University, Houston, TX, August 2004.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt ]

  • HSTCP-LP: A Protocol for Low-Priority Bulk Data Transfer in High-Speed High-RTT Networks
    A. Kuzmanovic, E. Knightly, and R. Les Cottrell
    In Proceedings of PFLDnet 2004, Argonne, Illinois, February 2004.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt ] (Abstract)
    TCP-LP for high-speed networks.
    HSTCP-LP Linux source code can be downloaded here.

  • Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks (The Shrew vs. the Mice and Elephants)
    A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2003.
    [ .pdf| .pdf.gz| .ppt| review/response| Russian translation ]
    How you can deny service without blasting the network.
    NS-2 simulator and Linux source code can be downloaded here.

  • Measurement Based Characterization and Classification of QoS-Enhanced Systems
    A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
    In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14(7): 671-685, July 2003.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review/response ]
    An extended version of the Infocom Infocom 2001 paper.

  • TCP-LP: A Distributed Algorithm for Low Priority Data Transfer
    A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
    In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2003, San Francisco, CA, April 2003.
    [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
    A TCP stack for non-intrusive background bulk data transfers.
    NS-2 simulator and Linux source code can 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.