Northwestern Networks Group

Northwestern Networks Group's Publications

2009

Measuring Serendipity: Connecting People, Locations and Interests in a Mobile 3G Network
I. Trestian, S. Ranjan, A. Kuzmanovic, and A. Nucci
In Proceedings of USENIX/ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'09), Chicago, IL, November 2009.
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The paper performs a large scale study of application usage and mobility across a large metropolitan area.

Googling the Internet: Profiling Internet Endpoints via the World Wide Web
I. Trestian, S. Ranjan, A. Kuzmanovic, and A. Nucci
In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear, August 2009.
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An extended version of the SIGCOMM 2008 paper.

Supporting Application Network Flows with Multiple QoS Constraints
A. Mondal, P. Sharma, S. Banerjee, and A. Kuzmanovic
In Proceedings of IEEE IWQoS 2009, Charleston, SC, July 2009.
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The paper designs a framework to find routes that meet individual QoS metrics efficiently and scalably under multiple QoS constraints.

Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capability to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets
A. Kuzmanovic, A. Mondal, S. Floyd, and K.K. Ramakrishnan
RFC 5562, June 2009.
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An RFC based on the SIGCOMM 2005 paper.

Upgrading Mice to Elephants: Effects and End-Point Solutions
A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear, March 2009.
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An extended version of the INFOCOM 2007 paper.

Drafting Behind Akamai: Inferring Network Conditions Based on CDN Redirections
A.-J. Su, D. Choffnes, A. Kuzmanovic, and F. Bustamante
In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear, February 2009.
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An extended version of the SIGCOMM 2006 paper.

2008

Removing Exponential Backoff from TCP
A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review,
Volume 38, Number 5, October 2008.
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The paper argues that the exponential backoff mechanism, introduced by Van Jacobson 20 years ago, should be removed from TCP.

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.

Thinning Akamai
A.-J. Su and A. Kuzmanovic
In Proceedings of USENIX/ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'08), Vouliagmeni, Greece, October 2008.
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How you can deny service to large-scale DNS-driven streaming networks.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How you can protect your TCP connection from poisoning attacks, yet without using cryptography.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An extended version of the SIGCOMM 2003 paper.

2005

The Power of Explicit Congestion Notification
A. Kuzmanovic
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How you can infer multi-class network mechanisms and parameters.