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Journal Papers, Conference and Workshop Papers, Extended Abstracts and Posters, Technical Reports

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Analyzing the Benefits of Optical Topology Programming for Mitigating Link-flood DDoS Attacks
    Matthew Nance Hall, Zaoxing Liu, Vyas Sekar and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2024.
    [PAPER]
  • DynATOS+: A Network Telemetry System for Dynamic Traffic and Query Workloads
    Chris Misa, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie, and Walter Willinger
    In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, March 2024.
    [PAPER] [PROJECT WEBSITE]
  • Improving Scalability in Traffic Engineering via Optical Topology Programming
    Matthew Nance Hall, Paul Barford, Klaus-Tycho Foerster and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, November 2023.
    [PAPER] [CODE]
  • ARISE: A Multi-Task Weak Supervision Framework for Network Measurements
    Jared Knofczynski, Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Walter Willinger
    In IEEE JSAC Series on Machine Learning in Communications and Networks, July 2022.
    [PAPER] [CODE]
  • Revisiting Network Telemetry in COIN: A Case for Runtime Programmability
    Chris Misa, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    In IEEE Network, Special Issue on In-Network Computing: Emerging Trends for the Edge-Cloud Continuum, September 2021.
    [PAPER]
  • A Survey of Reconfigurable Optical Networks
    Matthew Nance Hall, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Stefan Schmid, Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Optical Switching and Networking, March 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.osn.2021.100621
    [PAPER]
  • Predicting Mental Health from Followed Accounts on Twitter
    Cory K. Costello, Sanjay Srivastava, Reza Rejaie, Maureen Zalewski
    In Collabra: Psychology, 7(1), pp. 1 – 25, January 2021. DOI: 10.1525/collabra.18731
    [PAPER]
  • Lessons Learned Organizing the PAM Virtual Conference
    Chris Misa, Dennis Guse, Oliver Hohlfeld, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Anna Sperotto, Alberto Dainotti, Reza Rejaie
    In Computer Communication Review (CCR), Volume 50, Number 5, July 2020.
    [PAPER]
  • Examining the Evolution of the Twitter Elite Network
    Reza Motamedi, Soheil Jamshidi, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    In Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining, November 2019.
    [PAPER]
  • On Mapping the Interconnections in Today's Internet
    Reza Motamedi, Bahador Yeganeh, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Reza Rejaie, Bruce M. Maggs, Walter Willinger
    In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 27, Issue 5, October 2019.
    [PAPER]
  • Characterizing the Dynamics and Evolution of Incentivized Online Reviews on Amazon
    Soheil Jamshidi, Reza Rejaie, Jun Li
    Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining, 9(1) May 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s13278-019-0563-0
    [PAPER]
  • Intelligent Defense using Pretense against Targeted Attacks in Cloud Platforms
    Roshan Neupane, Travis Neely, Prasad Calyam, Nishant Chettri, Mark Vassell and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)---Special Issue on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analytics, 2019.
    [PAPER]
  • Deadline-Constrained Content Upload from Multihomed Devices: Formulations and Algorithms
    Ali Safari Khatouni, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Marco Mellia, and Reza Rejaie
    Elsevier Computer Networks, Volume 142, pp. 76 - 92, September 2018
    [PAPER]
  • A Techno-Economic Approach for Broadband Deployment in Underserved Areas
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Paul Barford
    In proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM CCR'17, April 2017.
    [PAPER]
  • Assessing The Evolution of Google+ in its First Two Years
    Roberto Gonzalez, Ruben Cuevas, Reza Motamedi, Reza Rejaie, Angel Cuevas
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 24, Number 3, pp. 1813 - 1826, June 2016
    [PAPER]
  • A Survey of Techniques for Internet Topology Discovery
    Reza Motamedi, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Volume 17, Number 2, pp. 1044 - 1065, 2nd quarter 2015
    [PAPER]
  • On Performance Evaluation of Swarm-based Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming Applications
    Reza Rejaie, Nazanin Magharei
    Springer Multimedia Systems, Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 415 - 427, July 2014
    [PAPER]
  • ISP-friendly Live P2P Streaming
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Ivica Rimac, Volker Hilt, Markus Hofmann
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 22, Number 1, pp. 244 - 256, May 2013
    [PAPER]
  • Tsunami: A Parasitic, Indestructible Botnet on Kad
    Ghulam Memon, Jun Li, Reza Rejaie
    Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp. 444 - 455, April 2013
    [PAPER]
  • Unveiling the Incentives for Content Publishing in Popular BitTorrent Portals
    Ruben Cuevas, Michal Kryczka, Angel Cuevas, Sebastian Kaune, Carmen Guerrero, Reza Rejaie
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 21, Number 5, pp. 1421 - 1436, December 2012 (This paper was a fast-track submission to TON)
    [PAPER]
  • Montra: A Large-Scale DHT Traffic Monitor
    Ghulam Memon, Reza Rejaie, Yang Guo, Daniel Stutzbach
    Elsevier Computer Networks, Special Issue on Measurement-based Optimization of P2P Networking and Applications, Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 1080-1091, February 2012
    [PAPER]
  • Incorporating Contribution-Awareness into Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming Services
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Yang Guo
    Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 231-250, September 2011
    [PAPER]
  • Sizing up Online Social Networks
    Reza Rejaie, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Masoud Valafar, Walter Willinger
    IEEE Network, Special Issue on Online Social Networks, Volume 24, Number 5, September/October 2010
    [PAPER]
  • ISP-Friendly P2P Streaming
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    Invited article in IEEE Multimedi Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, October 2009
    [DOC]
  • Characterization of P2P Systems
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Book Chapter, Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking, Shen, X.; Yu, H.; Buford, J.; Akon, M. (Eds.), Springer, March 2009, ISBN: 978-0-387-09750-3
    [PAPER]
  • PRIME: Peer-to-Peer Receiver-drIven MEsh-based Streaming
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 17, Number 4, August 2009
    [PAPER]
  • On Unbiased Sampling for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Subhabrata Sen, Walter Willinger
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 17, Number 2, April 2009
    [PAPER]
  • Characterizing Unstructured Overlay Topologies in Modern P2P File-Sharing Systems
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Subhabrata Sen
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 16, Number 2, April 2008
    [PAPER]
  • A Historic Open Reviewing at Global Internet'07
    Michalis Faloutsos, Reza Rejaie, Anirban Banerjee
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 37, Number 3, July 2007
    [PAPER]
  • Characterizing Files in the Modern Gnutella Network
    Daniel Stutzbach, Shanyu Zhao, Reza Rejaie
    ACM/SPIE Multimedia Systems Journal, Volume 1, Issue 13, pp. 35-50, March 2007
    [PAPER]
  • Anyone Can Broadcast Video Over the Internet
    Reza Rejaie
    Communications of the ACM, special issue on Entertainment Networking , Volume 49, Number 11, pp. 55-57, November 2006
    [PAPER]
  • Adaptive Receiver-Driven Streaming from Multiple Senders
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    ACM/SPIE Multimedia Systems Journal, Volume 11, Issue 6, pp. 550-567, Springer-Verlag, April 2006
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Layered Quality Adaptation for Internet Video Streaming
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handley, Deborah Estrin
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications(JSAC), Special issue on Internet QoS, pp. 2530-2543, Winter 2000
    [POSTSCRIPT]
  • Improving Simulation for Network Research
    Sandeep Bajaj, Lee Breslau, Deborah Estrin, Kevin Fall, Sally Floyd, Padma Haldar, Mark Handley, Ahmed Helmy, John Heidemann, Polly Huang, Satish Kumar, Steven McCanne, Reza Rejaie, Puneet Sharma, Kannan Varadhan, Ya Xu, Haobo Yu, Daniel Zapalla
    IIEEE Computer, Volume 33, pp. 59-67, May 2000
    [POSTSCRIPT]
  • MITRA: A Continuous Media Server
    S. Ghandeharizadeh, R. Zimmermann, W. Shi, R. Rejaie, D. Ierardi, and T. Li
    Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 5, Number 1, pp. 79-108, July 1997).
    Also appeared as a book chapter, Multimedia Technologies and Applications for the 21st Century, (Editor Borko Furht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, December 1997, ISBN: 0-7923-8074-6)
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Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

  • On the Impact of Submarine Cable Deployments on Multi-cloud Network Latencies
    Joseph Colton, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet '24), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2024.
    [PAPER]
  • Leveraging Prefix Structure to Detect Volumetric DDoS Attack Signatures with Programmable Switches
    Chris Misa, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Arpit Gupta, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'24), San Franscisco, CA, May 2024.
    [PAPER] [PROJECT WEBSITE] [CODE]
  • Data-Fusion for Prefix-Level Inference: A DDoS Case Study
    Chris Misa, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In Security Datasets for AI (SECDAI) workshop, virtual, April 2024.
    [PAPER]
  • Network Management with Graph Machine Learning: Challenges and Solutions
    Yu Wang and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Security Datasets for AI (SECDAI) workshop, virtual, April 2024.
    [PAPER]
  • Can LEO Satellites Enhance the Resilience of Internet to Multi-Hazard Risks?
    Aleksandr Stevens, Blaise Iradukunda, Brad Bailey and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of PAM'24, Virtual, March 2024.
    [PAPER] [CODE]
  • Special Issue on The ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on Measurements for Self-Driving Networks
    Arpit Gupta, Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2023.
    [PAPER]
  • xGrid: A Location-oriented Topology Design for LEO Satellites
    Joseph McLaughlin, Jee Choi and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of workshop on LEO Networking and Communication
    co-located with ACM MOBICOM'23, Madrid, Spain, October 2023.
    [PAPER]
  • Schooling NOOBs with eBPF
    Joel Sommers, Nolan Rudolph and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions
    co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'23, New York, USA, August 2023.
    [PAPER] [CODE]
  • A Case for Performance- and Cost-aware Multi-cloud Overlays
    Bahador Yeganeh, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Illinois, USA, July 2023.
    [PAPER] [DATASET]
  • Dynamic Scheduling of Approximate Telemetry Queries
    Chris Misa, Walt O'Connor, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'22) Renton, WA, April 2022.
    [PAPER] [SLIDES] [PROJECT WEBSITE] [CODE]
  • ELF: High-Performance In-band Network Measurement
    Joel Sommers and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'21)
    Virtual, September 2021.
    [PAPER] [CODE]
  • Are WANs Ready for Optical Topology Programming?
    Matthew Nance Hall, Paul Barford, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Manya Ghobadi, William Jensen, and Ramakrishnan Durairajen
    In Proceedings of Workshop on Optical Systems (OptSys'21)
    Virtual, August 2021.
    [PAPER]
  • On the Resilience of Internet Infrastructures in the Pacific Northwest to Earthquakes
    Juno Mayer, Valerie Sahakian, Emilie Hooft, Douglas Toomey and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM'21)
    Virtual, March 2021.
    [PAPER]
  • Challenges in Using ML for Networking Research: How to Label If You Must
    Yukhe Lavinia, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of Workshop on Network Meets AI & ML (NetAI'20)
    co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'20, New York, USA, August 2020.
    [PAPER] [SLIDES] [VIDEO]
  • Fighting Fire with Light: Tackling Extreme Terabit DDoS Using Programmable Optics
    Matthew Nance Hall, Guyue Liu, Vyas Sekar and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Secure and Programmable Network Infrastructure (SPIN'20)
    co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'20, New York, USA, August 2020.
    [PAPER] [SLIDES]
  • An Integrated Micro-Metrics Monitoring Framework for Tackling Distributed Heterogeneity
    Babar Khalid*, Nolan Rudolph*, Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Sudarsun Kannan
    In Proceedings of 12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage'20)
    co-located with Usenix ATC'20, Massachusetts, USA, July 2020.
    [PAPER] (* co-primary authors)
  • On the Practicality of Learning Models for Network Telemetry
    Soheil Jamshidi, Zayd Hammoudeh, Daniel Lowd, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of TMA'20, Berlin, Germany, June 2020. [Acceptance rate 33%]
    [PAPER]
  • Characteristics of Metro Fiber Deployments in the US
    Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Matthew Nance Hall, Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of TMA'20, Berlin, Germany, June 2020. [Acceptance rate 33%]
    [PAPER]
  • A First Comparative Characterization of Multi-cloud Connectivity in Today's Internet
    Bahador Yeganeh, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of PAM'20, Oregon, USA, March 2020.
    [PAPER]
  • Alias Resolution based on ICMP Rate Limiting
    Kevin Vermeulen, Burim Ljuma, Vamsi Krishna, Matthieu Gouel, Olivier Fourmaux, Timur Friedman and Reza Rejaie
    In Proceedings of PAM'20, Oregon, USA, March 2020.
    [PAPER]
  • Denoising Internet Delay Measurements using Weak Supervision
    Anirudh Muthukumar and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICMLA'19, Florida, USA, December 2019.
    [PAPER]
  • Bokeh: Anonymizing Physical Network Maps
    Yugali Gullapalli, Jeremy Koritzninsky, Meenakshi Syamkumar, Paul Barford, Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Joel Sommers
    In Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (ACM LocalRec'19)
    co-located with ACM SIGSPATIAL'19, Chicago, IL, USA, November 2019.
    [PAPER]
  • How Cloud Traffic Goes Hiding: A Study of Amazon's Peering Fabric
    Bahador Yeganeh, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of ACM IMC'19, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2019.
    [PAPER]
  • Can We Containerize Internet Measurements?
    Christopher Misa, Sudarsun Kannan and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of ACM/IRTF/ISOC Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW'19)
    co-located with IETF 105, Montreal, Canada, July 2019.
    [PAPER]
  • What time is it? Managing Time in the Internet
    Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford and Joel Sommers
    In Proceedings of ACM/IRTF/ISOC Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW'19)
    co-located with IETF 105, Montreal, Canada, July 2019.
    [PAPER]
  • In the IP of the Beholder: Strategies for Active IPv6 Topology Discovery
    Robert Beverly, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, David Plonka and Justin P. Rohrer
    In Proceedings of ACM IMC'18, Boston, USA, November 2018.
    [PAPER] [arXiv]
  • Trojan Horses in Amazon's Castle: Understanding the Incentivized Online Reviews
    Soheil Jamshidi, Reza Rejaie and Jun Li
    In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Barcelona, Spain, August 2018. [Acceptance rate 15%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Unveiling Social Characteristics of Twitter Elite Network
    Reza Motamedi, Saed Rezayi, Reza Rejaie and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Barcelona, Spain, August 2018. [Acceptance rate 15%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • TimeWeaver: Opportunistic One Way Delay Measurement via NTP
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Paul Barford, Rob Nowak and Joel Sommers
    In Proceedings of ITC 30, Vienna, Austria, September 2018.
    [PAPER] [arXiv]
  • Deployment Characteristics of "The Edge" in Mobile Edge Computing
    Meenakshi Syamkumar, Paul Barford and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (ACM MECOMM'18)
    co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'18, Budapest, Hungary, August 2018.
    [PAPER]
  • Assessing Candidate Preference through Web Browsing History
    Giovanni Comarela, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford, Dino Christenson and Mark Crovella
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD'18, London, UK, August 2018.
    [PAPER]
  • Lights Out: Climate Change Risk to Internet Infrastructure
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Carol Barford and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of ACM/IRTF/ISOC Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW'18)
    co-located with IETF 102, Montreal, Canada, July 2018.
    [PAPER]
  • Wrinkles in Time: Detecting Internet-wide Events via NTP
    Meenakshi Syamkumar, Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford and Joel Sommers
    In Proceedings of IFIP Networking'18, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2018.
    [PAPER]
  • Dolus: Cyber Defense using Pretense against DDoS Attacks in Cloud Platforms
    Roshan Neupane, Travis Neely, Nishant Chettri, Mark Vassell, Yuanxun Zhang, Prasad Calyam and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of ACM ICDCN'18, Varanasi, India, January 2018.
    [PAPER]
  • Automatic Metadata Generation for Active Measurement
    Joel Sommers, Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of ACM IMC'17, London, UK, November 2017.
    [PAPER] [PROJECT WEBSITE]
  • A View From the Edge: A Stub-AS Perspective of Traffic Localization and its Implications
    Bahador Yeganeh, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    IEEE/IFIP Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), Dublin, Ireland, June 2017 [acceptance rate 35%]
    One of the top three papers selected for the best paper award.
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Adaptive Schedulers for Deadline-Constrained Content Upload from Mobile Multihomed Vehicles
    Ali Safari Khatouni, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Marco Mellia, Reza Rejaie
    IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), Osaka, Japan, June 2017 [acceptance rate 34%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Re-examining the Complexity of Popular Websites
    Ran Tian, Reza Rejaie
    The Third IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (HotWeb), November 2015, Best student paper award.
    [PAPER]
  • MNTP: Enhancing Time Synchronization for Mobile Devices
    Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford and Joel Sommers
    In Proceedings of ACM IMC'16, Santa Monica, CA, USA, November 2016.
    [PAPER]
  • Bigfoot: A Geo-based Visualization Methodology for Detecting BGP Threats
    Meenakshi Syamkumar, Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of IEEE VizSec'16, Baltimore, MD, USA, October 2016.
    [PAPER]
  • A Techno-Economic Framework for Broadband Deployment in Underserved Areas
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Paul Barford
    In proceedings of ACM GAIA Workshop (ACM GAIA'16)
    co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'16, Florianopolis, Brazil, August 2016.
    Best Paper Nomination to ACM SIGCOMM CCR
    [PAPER] [SLIDES]
  • Time's Forgotten: Using NTP to Understand Internet Latency
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Joel Sommers and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of ACM HotNets'15, Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 2015.
    [PAPER] [PROJECT WEBSITE] [SLIDES]
  • InterTubes: A Study of the US Long-haul Fiber-optic Infrastructure
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford, Joel Sommers and Walter Willinger
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'15, London, UK, August 2015.
    Coverage: MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, Gizmodo, TechRepublic, VoA,
    NYTimes, Boston Globe, Badger Herald, Business Insider, Mashable
    [PAPER]
  • pfs: Parallelized, Flow-based Network Simulation
    Mukta Gupta, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Meenakshi Syamkumar, Paul Barford and Joel Sommers
    In Proceedings of ACM SummerSim'15, Chicago, IL, USA, July 2015.
    [PAPER]
  • Controller-agnostic SDN Debugging
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Joel Sommers and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT'14, Sydney, Australia, December 2014.
    Best Short Paper Award
    [PAPER] [SLIDES]
  • Layer 1-Informed Internet Topology Measurement
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Joel Sommers and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of ACM IMC'14, Vancouver, Canada, November 2014.
    [PAPER] [SLIDES]
  • Inferring Coarse Views of Connectivity in Very Large Graphs
    Reza Motamedi, Reza Rejaie, Daniel Lowd, Walter Willinger, Roberto Gonzalez
    ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), Dublin, Ireland, October 2014 [acceptance rate 16%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • RiskRoute: A Framework for Mitigating Network Outage Threats
    Brian Eriksson, Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT'13, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, December 2013.
    [PAPER] [SLIDES]
  • Internet Atlas: A Geographic Database of the Internet
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Subhadip Ghosh, Xin Tang, Paul Barford and Brian Eriksson
    In proceedings of 5th ACM HotPlanet Workshop (ACM HotPlanet'13)
    co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'13, Hong Kong, August 2013.
    Coverage: New Scientist, Technology.org
    Discovery Challenge Research Award
    One of the 100 Great Innovations of 2017
    [PAPER] [PROJECT WEBSITE] [SLIDES]
  • Adaptive Data Transmission in the Cloud
    Wenfei Wu, Yizheng Chen, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Dongchan Kim, Ashok Anand and Aditya Akella
    In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM IWQoS'13, Montreal, Canada, June 2013.
    [PAPER] [TECH REPORT]
  • Investigating the Reaction of BitTorrent Content Publishers to Antipiracy Actions
    Reza Farahbaksh, Angel Cuevas, Ruben Cuevas, Reza Rejaie, Michal Kryczka, Roberto Gonzalez, Noel Crespi
    IEEE P2P, Trento, Italy, September 2013 [acceptance rate 20%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Google+ or Google-? Dissecting the Evolution of the New OSN in its First Year
    Roberto Gonzalez, Ruben Cuevas, Reza Motamedi, Reza Rejaie, Angel Cuevas
    WWW 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2013 [acceptance rate 15%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Eyeball ASes: From Geography to Connectivity
    Amir H. Rasti, Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia, November 2010 [acceptance rate 22%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Is Content Publishing in BitTorrent Altruistic or Profit-Driven?
    Ruben Cuevas, Michal Kryczka, Angel Cuevas, Sebastian Kaune, Carmen Guerrero, Reza Rejaie
    ACM CoNext, Philadelphia, USA, November 2010 [acceptance rate 19%]. This paper was selected for fast-track submission to IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking.
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Characterizing the Global Impact of P2P Overlays on the AS-Level Underlay
    Amir H. Rasti, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Proceedings of Passive & Active Measurement Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, April 2010 [acceptance rate 29%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Research on Online Social Networks: Time to Face the Real Challenges
    Walter Willinger, Reza Rejaie, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Masoud Valafar, Mauro Maggioni
    The 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics), Seattle, Washington, June 2009
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow: On the Migration of MySpace Users
    Mojtaba Torkjazi, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009 [acceptance rate 33%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Beyond Friendship Graphs: A Study of User Interactions in Flickr
    Masoud Valafar, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009 [acceptance rate 33%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Overlay Monitoring and Repair in Swarm-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    NOSSDAV, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 2009 [acceptance rate 31%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Respondent-driven Sampling for Characterizing Unstructured Overlays
    Amir H. Rasti, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Walter Willinger. Daniel Stutzbach
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 [acceptance rate including INFOCOM 26.6%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Large-Scale Monitoring of DHT Traffic
    Ghulam Memon, Reza Rejaie, yang Guo, Daniel Stutzbach
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), Boston, MA, April 2009 [acceptance rate 20%]
    [PAPER] [HTML] [PPT]
  • Understanding Peer-Level Performance in BitTorrent: A Measurement Study
    Amir H. Rasti, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), one of the Chairs Recommended Papers, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2007 [acceptance rate 29%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Examining Graph Properties of Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Topology
    Chao Xie, Sijie Guo, Reza Rejaie, Yi Pan
    Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [acceptance rate 35%]
    [PAPER]
  • Mesh or Multiple-Tree: A Comparative Study of Live P2P Streaming Approaches
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Yang Guo
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1424-1432, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [acceptance rate 17%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • PRIME: Peer-to-Peer Receiver-drIven MEsh-based Streaming
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1415-1423, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [acceptance rate 17%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Issues in Offering Live P2P Streaming Service to Residential Users
    Nazanin Magharei, Yang Guo, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 757-762, Las Vegas, January 2007
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • On Unbiased Sampling for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Subhabrata Sen, Walter Willinger
    Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, pp. 27-40, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2006 [acceptance rate 22%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Understanding Churn in Peer-to-Peer Networks
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, pp. 189-202, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2006 [acceptance rate 22%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Understanding Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp 56-61, Newport, Rhode Island, May 2006 [acceptance rate 31% of 74]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Sampling Techniques for Large, Dynamics Graphs
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Subhabrata Sen, Walter Willinger
    Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 [acceptance rate 36% of 63]
    [PAPER]
  • On the Long-term Evolution of the Two-tier Gnutella Overlay
    Amir H. Rasti, Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, pp. 1-6, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 [acceptance rate 36% of 63]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Improving Lookup Performance over a Widely-Deployed DHT
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1-12, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 [acceptance rate 18%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Characterizing Files in the Modern Gnutella Network: A Measurement Study
    Shanyu Zhao, Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking, pp. 1-13, San Jose, January 2006 [acceptance rate 25%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Characterizing Unstructured Overlay Topologies in Modern P2P File-Sharing Systems
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Subhabrata Sen
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, pp. 49-62, Berkeley, October 2005 [acceptance rate 27% of 82]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • The Scalability of Swarming Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery
    Daniel Stutzbach, Daniel Zappala, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of Networking, pp. 15-26, Waterloo Ontario Canada, May 2005 [acceptance rate 25% of 430]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Capturing Accurate Snapshots of the Gnutella Network
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, pp. 127-132, Miami, FL, March 2005 [acceptance rate 32% of 67]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Adaptive Multi-Source Streaming in Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks
    Vikash Agarwal, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of the SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking, pp. 13-25, San Jose, CA, January 2005 [acceptance rate 16%]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • A Framework for Architecting Peer-to-Peer Receiver-driven Overlays
    Reza Rejaie, Shad Stafford
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp. 42-47, Cork, Ireland, June 2004 [acceptance rate 25% of 95]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • PALS: Peer-to-Peer Adaptive Layered Streaming
    Reza Rejaie, Antonio Ortega
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp. 153-161, Monterey, California, June 2003 [acceptance rate 30% of 60]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • On Integration of Congestion Control with Internet Streaming Applications
    Reza Rejaie
    Packet Video Workshop, Nantes, France, April 2003
    [PAPER]
  • Design Issues for Layered Quality-Adaptive Internet Video Playback
    Reza Rejaie, Amy R. Reibman
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Communications, pp. 433-451, Taormina, Italy, September 2001
    [PAPER]
  • Mocha: A Quality Adaptive Multimedia Proxy Cache for Internet Streaming
    Reza Rejaie, Jussi Kangasharju
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp. 3-10, Port Jefferson, New York, June 2001 [acceptance rate 33% of 60]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Architectural Considerations for Playback of Quality Adaptive Video over the Internet
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handely, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON'2000), pp. 204-209, Singapore, September 2000
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • On Design of Internet Multimedia Streaming Applications: An Architectural Perspective
    Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 327-330, New York, August 2000
    [POSTSCRIPT] [PPT]
  • Multimedia Proxy Caching Mechanism for Quality Adaptive Streaming Applications in the Internet
    Reza Rejaie, Haobo Yu, Mark Handely, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 980-989, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000 [acceptance rate 26% of 735]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Quality Adaptation for Congestion Controlled Video Playback over the Internet
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handley, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '99, pp. 189-200, Cambridge, MA, September 1999 [acceptance rate 12% of 190]
    [POSTSCRIPT]
  • Proxy Caching Mechanism for Multimedia Playback Streams in the Internet
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handley, Haobo Yu, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of the 4th International Web Caching Workshop, pp. 100-111, San Diego, CA, March 1999 [acceptance rate 50% of 38]
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • RAP: An End-to-end Rate-based Congestion Control Mechanism for Realtime Streams in the Internet
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handely, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1337-1345, New York, NY, March 1999 [acceptance rate 30% of 600]
    This paper is one of the top ten most cited articles in computer science published in 1999 according to CiteSeer.
    [PAPER]

Refereed Extended Abstracts and Posters

  • Bridging the Optical-Packet Network Chasm via Secure Enclaves (Extended abstract)
    Matthew Nance Hall and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Workshop on Optical Systems Design (OptSys'20)
    co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'20, New York, USA, August 2020.
    [SLIDES]
  • A Compressed Sensing Approach to Taming the Internet Measurement Data Deluge
    Matt Hall, Joel Sommers and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of ACM IMC'18, Boston, USA, November 2018.
    [POSTER]
  • Dynamic Measurement of Container Network Latency
    Christopher Misa and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of ACM IMC'18, Boston, USA, November 2018.
    [POSTER]
  • vFiber: Virtualizing Unused Optical Fibers (Extended Abstract)
    Matt Hall, Vijay Chidambaram and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    In Proceedings of USENIX NSDI'18, Renton, WA, USA, April 2018.
    [POSTER]
  • OFf: Bugspray for Openflow (Extended Abstract)
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Joel Sommers and Paul Barford
    In Proceedings of ACM HotSDN Workshop (ACM HotSDN'14)
    co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'14, Chicago, IL, USA, August 2014.
    [PAPER] [POSTER]
  • Understanding the Effect of P2P Overlay On the AS-Level Underlay
    Amir H. Rasti, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Proceedings of the CoNEXT Conference, Student Workshop, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 2007
    [PAPER] [POSTER]
  • Peer-to-Peer Receiver-driven Mesh-based Streaming
    Nazanin Magharei, Amir H. Rasti, Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM, Poster Session, August 2005
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Characterizing the Two-Tier Gnutella Topology
    D. Stutzbach, R. Rejaie
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS, Poster Session, pp. 402-403, Alberta Canada, June 2005
    [PAPER] [PPT]
  • Evaluating the Accuracy of Captured Snapshots by Peer-to-Peer Crawlers
    D. Stutzbach, R. Rejaie
    Proceedings of the Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, Extended abstract, pp. 353-357, Boston, MA, March 2005
    [PAPER] [PPT]

Technical Reports

  • Topology-aware Perspective for Enhancing Robustness in the Internet
    Ramakrishnan Durairajan
    Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 2017.
  • Characterization of information propagation in Google+ and its Comparison with Twitter
    Roberto Gonzalez, Ruben Cuevas, Angel Cuevas, Reza Farahbakhsh, Reza Motamedi, Reza Rejaie
    Technical Report CIS-TR-10-13, October 2013
    [PAPER]
  • Characterizing Group-Level User Behavior in Major Online Social Networks
    Reza Motamedi, Roberto Gonzalez, Reza Farahbakhsh, Reza Rejaie, Angel Cuevas, Ruben Cuevas
    Technical Report CIS-TR-09-13, September 2013
    [PAPER]
  • On the Design of Scalable Peer-to-Peer Video Caching
    Alex Bikfalvi, Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Jaime Garcia-Reinoso
    Technical Report CIS-TR-10-10, February 2010
    [PAPER]
  • Characterizing the Global Impact of the P2P Overlay on the AS-level Underlay
    Amir H. Rasti, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Technical Report CIS-TR-10-01, University of Oregon, January 2010
    [PAPER]
  • Evaluating Sampling Techniques for Large Dynamic Graphs
    Amir H. Rasti, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Walter Willinger, Daniel Stutzbach
    Technical Report CIS-TR-08-01, University of Oregon, September 2008
    [PAPER]
  • Towards a Better Understanding of Churn in Peer-to-Peer Networks
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Technical Report CIS-TR-04-06, University of Oregon, November 2004
    [PAPER]
  • Proxy Caching for Quality Adaptive Multimedia Streams in the Internet: A Performance Perspective
    Reza Rejaie, Haobo Yu
    Technical Report, February 2000
    [PAPER]
  • An End-to-End Architecture for Quality Adaptive Streaming Applications in the Internet
    Reza Rejaie
    Ph.D. Dissertation, Computer Science Department, USC, September 1999
    [PAPER] [PPT]