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POWDER
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
Faculty
areas of interest
networking
,
security
,
mobile networking
email
kobus at cs.utah.edu
web
www.cs.utah.edu/~kobus
advisees
Kirk Webb
,
Jincao (JC) Zhu
,
Ryan West
,
Muhammad Basit Iqbal Awan
,
Ali Nawazish
,
Anirudh Kamath
alumni
Matt Strum
,
Arijit Banerjee
,
Josh Kunz
,
Binh Nguyen
,
Hyunwook Baek
,
Ren Quinn
,
Aisha Syed
,
Christopher Becker
,
Jithu Joseph
,
Junguk Cho
,
Makito Kano
,
Praveen Shanmugam
,
Dallin Abendroth
,
Mohamed Mehdi Jamshidy
,
David Hancock
,
Gurupragaash Annasamymani
,
Praveen Thiraviyarathinam
,
Zirak Zaheer
,
Anand Tripathi
,
Anmol Vatsa
,
Zeeshan Hakim
,
Hao (Harry) Jiang
,
Simon Redman
,
Jacob Bills
,
Natalie Cottrill
,
Dylan Johnson
,
Aashish Gottipati
publications with the flux group
2024
POWDER-RDZ: Prototyping a Radio Dynamic Zone using the POWDER platform
David Johnson
,
Dustin Maas
, Serhat Tadik,
Alex Orange
,
Leigh Stoller
,
Kirk Webb
,
Muhammad Basit Iqbal Awan
,
Jacob Bills
, Miguel Gomez, Aarushi Sarbhai, Greg Durgin,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
,
Neal Patwari
,
David Schurig
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In IEEE DySPAN 2024
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2023
FlexRDZ: Autonomous Mobility Management for Radio Dynamic Zones
Aashish Gottipati
and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In FNWF 2023
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OZTrust: An O-RAN Zero-Trust Security System
Hao (Harry) Jiang
, Hyunseok Chang, Sarit Mukherjee, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In IEEE NFV-SDN 2023
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dNextG: A Zero-Trust Decentralized Mobile Network User Plane
Ryan West
and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In ACM Q2SWinet 2023
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RESCue: A State-Disaggregated NFV System with Resilience, Elasticity, and State Consistency
Hao (Harry) Jiang
, Hyunseok Chang, Sarit Mukherjee, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In NETSOFT 2023
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Adjacent Channel WiFi 5 Interference on DSRC Communication at 5.9GHz
Jacob Bills
,
Alex Orange
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In VTC2023-Spring 2023
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Spectrum Usage Analysis And Prediction using Long Short-Term Memory Networks
Anneswa Ghosh,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and
Sneha Kumar Kasera
In ICDCN 2023
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2022
NexRAN: Closed-loop RAN slicing in POWDER - A top-to-bottom open-source open-RAN use case
David Johnson
,
Dustin Maas
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In WiNTECH '21 2022
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2021
Demo: A Compliance Monitoring System for Open SDR Platforms
Jie Wang,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and
Neal Patwari
In SenSys 2021
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Demo: Enabling O-RAN experimentation in POWDER - A top-to-bottom RAN slicing use case
David Johnson
,
Dustin Maas
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In MWC 2021
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Nervion: a cloud native RAN emulator for scalable and flexible mobile core evaluation
Jon Larrea, Mahesh Marina, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In MobiCom 2021
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POWDER: Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research
Joe Breen, Andrew Buffmire,
Jonathon Duerig
, Kevin Dutt,
Eric Eide
, Anneswa Ghosh,
Mike Hibler
,
David Johnson
,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
, Earl Lewis,
Dustin Maas
, Caleb Martin,
Alex Orange
,
Neal Patwari
,
Dan Reading
,
Robert Ricci
,
David Schurig
,
Leigh Stoller
, Allison Todd,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, Naren Viswanathan,
Kirk Webb
, and
Gary Wong
In Computer Networks 197(), October 2021
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Practical and configurable network traffic classification using probabilistic machine learning
Jiahui Chen, Joe Breen, Jeff M. Phillips, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In ClusterComputing (), September 2021
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FestNet: A Flexible and Efficient Sliced Transport Network
Hao (Harry) Jiang
, Nakjung Choi, Marina Thottan, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In NETSOFT 2021
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Demo: Open Source RAN Slicing on POWDER - A Top-to-Bottom O-RAN Use Case
David Johnson
,
Dustin Maas
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In MobiSys 2021
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Demo: Mobile and Wireless Research on the POWDER Platform
Joe Breen,
Jonathon Duerig
,
Eric Eide
,
Mike Hibler
,
David Johnson
,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
,
Dustin Maas
,
Alex Orange
,
Neal Patwari
,
Robert Ricci
,
David Schurig
,
Leigh Stoller
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
,
Kirk Webb
, and
Gary Wong
In MobiSys 2021
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MAGNET : Machine Learning Guided Application-Aware Networking for Data Centers
Hyunseok Chang, Murali Kodialam, TV Lakshman, Sarit Mukherjee,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and
Zirak Zaheer
In IEEE TCC (), June 2021
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BoTM: Basestation-on-the-move, a Radio Access Network Management Primitive
Aashish Gottipati and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CNERT 2021
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WiMatch: Wireless Resource Matchmaking
Kirk Webb
,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
,
Neal Patwari
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CNERT 2021
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Towards using the POWDER platform for RF propagation validation
Jose Monterroso,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
,
Kirk Webb
, and
Gary Wong
In CNERT 2021
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2020
Spectrum Monitoring and Source Separation in POWDER
Boston Terry
,
Alex Orange
,
Neal Patwari
,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In WiNTECH 2020
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POWDER: Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research
Joe Breen, Andrew Buffmire,
Jonathon Duerig
, Kevin Dutt,
Eric Eide
,
Mike Hibler
,
David Johnson
,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
, Earl Lewis,
Dustin Maas
,
Alex Orange
,
Neal Patwari
,
Dan Reading
,
Robert Ricci
,
David Schurig
,
Leigh Stoller
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
,
Kirk Webb
, and
Gary Wong
In WiNTECH 2020
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2019
WASPP: Workflow Automation for Security Policy Procedures
Ren Quinn
, Nico Holguin, Ben Poster, Corey Roach, , and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CNSM 2019
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Fluorescence: Detecting Kernel-Resident Malware in Clouds
Cai (Richard) Li
,
Min Du
,
David Johnson
,
Robert Ricci
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and
Eric Eide
In RAID 2019
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Critical Reroute: A Practical Approach to Network Flow Prioritization using Segment Routing
Simon Redman
,
David Johnson
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In LANMAN 2019
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DEPO: A Platform for Safe DEployment of POlicy in a Software Defined Infrastructure
Aisha Syed
, Bilal Anwer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In SOSR 2019
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eZTrust: Network-Independent Zero-Trust Perimeterization for Microservices
Zirak Zaheer
, Hyunseok Chang, Sarit Mukherjee, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In SOSR 2019
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Privacy-Aware Peak Load Reduction in Smart Homes
Aarushi Sarbhai,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and
Sneha Kumar Kasera
In COMSNETS 2019
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2018
Toward Classifying Unknown Application Traffic
Ryan Baker,
Ren Quinn
, Jeff Phillips, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In DYNAMICS 2018
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MobileStream: A Scalable, Programmable and Evolvable Mobile Core Control Plane Platform
Junguk Cho
,
Ryan Stutsman
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CoNEXT 2018
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ECHO: A Reliable Distributed Cellular Core Network for Hyper-scale Public Clouds
Binh Nguyen
, Tian Zhang, Bozidar Radunovic,
Ryan Stutsman
, Thomas Karagiannis, Jakub Kocur, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In MobiCom 2018
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I Heard It through the Firewall: Exploiting Cloud Management Services as an Information Leakage Channel
Hyunwook Baek
,
Eric Eide
,
Robert Ricci
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In SoCC 2018
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Monitoring the Update Time of Virtual Firewalls in the Cloud
Hyunwook Baek
,
Eric Eide
,
Robert Ricci
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
UUCS-18-005 2018
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2017
AutoFocus: Automatically Scoping the Impact of Anomalous Service Events
Ren Quinn
, Zihui Ge, He Yan, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CNSM 2017
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Typhoon: An SDN Enhanced Real-Time Big Data Streaming Framework
Junguk Cho
, Hyunseok Chang, Sarit Mukherjee, T.V. Lakshman, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CoNEXT 2017
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Enabling WiFi in Open Access Networks
Shamik Sarkar,
Christopher Becker
,
Josh Kunz
, Aarushi Sarbhai,
Gurupragaash Annasamymani
,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless 2017
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Polygravity: Traffic Usage Accountability via Coarse-grained Measurements in Multi-tenant Data Centers
Hyunwook Baek
, Cheng Jin, Guofei Jiang, Cristian Lumezanu,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, Ning Xia, and Qiang Xu
In SoCC 2017
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CapNet: Security and Least Authority in a Capability-Enabled Cloud
Anton Burtsev
,
David Johnson
,
Josh Kunz
,
Eric Eide
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In SoCC 2017
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ECHO: A reliable distributed cellular core network for public clouds
Binh Nguyen
, Tian Zhang, Bozidar Radunovic,
Ryan Stutsman
, Thomas Karagiannis, Jakub Kocur, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
Technical Report 2017
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Orchestrating the Data-plane of Virtual LTE Core Networks
Rajesh Mahindra,
Arijit Banerjee
, Karthik Sundaresan,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and Sampath Rangarajan
In IEEE SECON 2017
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SIMECA: SDN-based IoT Mobile Edge Cloud Architecture
Binh Nguyen
, Nakjung Choi, Marina Thottan, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management - Mini Conference 2017
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CloudSight: A tenant-oriented transparency framework for cross-layer cloud troubleshooting
Hyunwook Baek
, Abhinav Srivastava, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CCGrid 2017
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2016
ACACIA - Context-aware Edge Computing for Continuous Interactive Applications over Mobile Networks
Junguk Cho
, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Rajesh Mahindra,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and Sampath Rangarajan
In CoNEXT 2016
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HyPer4: Using P4 to Virtualize the Programmable Data Plane
David Hancock
and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CoNEXT 2016
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Demo: Repeatable Mobile Networking Research with PhantomNet
Junguk Cho
,
Jonathon Duerig
,
Eric Eide
,
Binh Nguyen
,
Robert Ricci
,
Aisha Syed
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
,
Kirk Webb
, and
Gary Wong
In MobiCom 2016
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Proteus: A Network Service Control Platform for Service Evolution in a Mobile Software Defined Infrastructure
Aisha Syed
and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In MobiCom 2016
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Demo: ACACIA – Context-aware Edge Computing for Continuous Interactive Applications over Mobile Networks
Junguk Cho
, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Rajesh Mahindra,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and Sampath Rangarajan
In MobiCom 2016
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KnowNet: Towards a Knowledge Plane for Enterprise Network Management
Ren Quinn
,
Josh Kunz
,
Aisha Syed
, Joe Breen,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
,
Robert Ricci
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In NOMS 2016
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OpenEdge: A Dynamic and Secure Open Service Edge Network
Josh Kunz
,
Christopher Becker
,
Mohamed Mehdi Jamshidy
,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
,
Robert Ricci
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In NOMS 2016
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P2P Offloading in Mobile Networks using SDN
Ryan Saunders,
Junguk Cho
,
Arijit Banerjee
, Frederico Rocha, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In SOSR 2016
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2015
Scaling the LTE Control-Plane for Future Mobile Access
Arijit Banerjee
, Rajesh Mahindra, Karthik Sundaresan,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and Sampath Rangarajan
In CoNEXT 2015
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ABSENCE: Usage-based Failure Detection in Mobile Networks
Binh Nguyen
, Zihui Ge,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, He Yan, and Jennifer Yates
In MobiCom 2015
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Potassium: Penetration Testing as a Service
Cai (Richard) Li
,
Dallin Abendroth
,
Xing Lin
,
Yuankai (Kyle) Guo
,
Hyunwook Baek
,
Eric Eide
,
Robert Ricci
, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In SoCC 2015
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MobiScud: A Fast Moving Personal Cloud in the Mobile Network
Kaiqiang Wang, Minwei Shen,
Junguk Cho
,
Arijit Banerjee
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and
Kirk Webb
In Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications and Challenges 2015
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Efficient, Adaptive and Scalable Device Activation for M2M Communications
Arijit Banerjee
,
Binh Nguyen
, Vijay Gopalakrishnan,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
, Seungjoon Lee, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In IEEE SECON 2015
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PhantomNet: Research Infrastructure for Mobile Networking, Cloud Computing and Software-Defined Networking
Arijit Banerjee
,
Junguk Cho
,
Eric Eide
,
Jonathon Duerig
,
Binh Nguyen
,
Robert Ricci
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
,
Kirk Webb
, and
Gary Wong
In ACM GetMobile 19(2), April 2015
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2014
Towards Understanding TCP Performance on LTE/EPC Mobile Networks
Binh Nguyen
,
Arijit Banerjee
, Vijay Gopalakrishnan,
Sneha Kumar Kasera
, Seungjoon Lee, Aman Shaikh, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In AllThingsCellular 2014
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SMORE: Software-Defined Networking Mobile Offloading Architecture
Junguk Cho
,
Binh Nguyen
,
Arijit Banerjee
,
Robert Ricci
,
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
, and
Kirk Webb
In AllThingsCellular 2014
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DEIDtect: Towards Distributed Elastic Intrusion Detection
Praveen Shanmugam
, Naveen Subramanyam, Joe Breen, Corey Roach, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In DCC 2014
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CloudVMI: Virtual Machine Introspection as a Cloud Service
Hyunwook Baek
, Abhinav Srivastava, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In IC2E 2014
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2013
MOCA: A Lightweight Mobile Cloud Offloading Architecture
Arijit Banerjee
, Xu Chen, Jeffrey Erman, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Seungjoon Lee, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In MobiArch 2013
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DEFINED: Deterministic Execution for Interactive Control-Plane Debugging
Chia-Chi Lin, Virajith Jalaparti, Matthew Caesar, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In USENIX ATC 2013
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2012
Mercado: Using market principles to drive alternative network service abstractions
Xu Chen, Jeffrey Erman, Seungjoon Lee, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CSWS 2012
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Practical Network-Wide Compression of IP Routing Tables
Elliott Karpilovsky, Matthew Caesar, Jennifer Rexford, Aman Shaikh, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In IEEE TNSM 9(4), December 2012
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SMOG: A Cloud Platform for Seamless Wide area Migration of Networked Games
Virajith Jalaparti, Matthew Caesar, Seungjoon Lee, Jeffery Pang, and
Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In NetGames 2012
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