Where The Wild Things Are: Brute-Force SSH Attacks In The Wild And How To Stop Them
Sachin Kumar Singh, Shreeman Gautam, Cameron Cartier, Sameer Patil, and Robert Ricci
In NSDI 2024 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

An NSF REU Site Based on Trust and Reproducibility of Intelligent Computation: Experience Report
Mary Hall, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Eric Eide, Johanna Cohoon, Jeff M. Phillips, Mu Zhang, Shireen Y. Elhabian, Aditya Bhaskara, Harvey Dam, Artem Yadrov, Tushar Kataria, Amir Mohammad Tavakkoli, Sameeran Joshi, and Mokshagna Sai Teja Karanam
In SC-W 2023 [ bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

dNextG: A Zero-Trust Decentralized Mobile Network User Plane
Ryan West and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In ACM Q2SWinet 2023 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Improving Systems Dependability Through Private Distributed Computation and Analysis of Anomalies
Rufaida Ahmed
PhD Dissertation, University of Utah 2021 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ bibtex ]

FestNet: A Flexible and Efficient Sliced Transport Network
Hao (Harry) Jiang, Nakjung Choi, Marina Thottan, and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In NETSOFT 2021 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ bibtex ]

Switch Assisted Peer To Peer
Sriram Selvam
Masters Thesis, University of Utah 2020 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Is Big Data Performance Reproducible in Modern Cloud Networks?
Alexandru Uta, Alexandru Custura, Dmitry Duplyakin, Ivo Jimenez, Jan Rellermeyer, Carlos Maltzahn, Robert Ricci, and Alexandru Iosup
In NSDI 2020 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

MME-FaaS Cloud-Native Control for Mobile Networks
Sonika Jindal and Robert Ricci
In SoCC 2019 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

WASPP: Workflow Automation for Security Policy Procedures
Ren Quinn, Nico Holguin, Ben Poster, Corey Roach, , and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CNSM 2019 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

eZTrust: Network-Independent Zero-Trust Perimeterization for Microservices
Zirak Zaheer, Hyunseok Chang, Sarit Mukherjee, and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In SOSR 2019 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Toward Classifying Unknown Application Traffic
Ryan Baker, Ren Quinn, Jeff Phillips, and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In DYNAMICS 2018 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Interparty Visibility in a Cloud Computing Platform
Hyunwook Baek
PhD Dissertation, University of Utah 2018 [ bibtex ]

Harpocrates: Giving Out Your Secrets and Keeping Them Too
Rufaida Ahmed, Zirak Zaheer, Cai (Richard) Li, and Robert Ricci
In SEC 2018 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Enhancing Scalability and Reliability in Mobile Core Networks
Binh Nguyen
PhD Dissertation, University of Utah 2018 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

AutoFocus: Automatically Scoping the Impact of Anomalous Service Events
Ren Quinn, Zihui Ge, He Yan, and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CNSM 2017 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

XNet: A Capability Enabled Cloud Access Control System
Josh Kunz
Masters Thesis, University of Utah 2017 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Federated Content Filtered Network
Gurupragaash Annasamymani
Technical Report 2017 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Auto-tuning active queue management
Joe Novak and Sneha Kumar Kasera
In COMSNETS 2017 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

KnowU - Policy Driven Access Control in Campus Networks
Gurupragaash Annasamymani
Technical Report 2017 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Path Boxplots: A Method for Characterizing Uncertainty in Path Ensembles on a Graph
Mukund Raj, Mahsa Mirzargar, Robert Ricci, Robert Kirby, and Ross Whitaker
In JCGS 26(2), 2017 [ bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

HyPer4: Using P4 to Virtualize the Programmable Data Plane
David Hancock and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In CoNEXT 2016 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Mobile Live Video Upstreaming
Philip Lundrigan, Mojgan Khaledi, Makito Kano, Naveen Subramanyam, and Sneha Kumar Kasera
In ITC 2016 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

To Copy or Not to Copy: Making In-Memory Databases Fast on Modern NICs
Aniraj Kesavan, Robert Ricci, and Ryan Stutsman
In IMDM 2016 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

DEIDTECT - Distributed Elastic Intrusion Detection Architecture
Praveen Shanmugam
Masters Thesis, University of Utah 2016 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Introducing Configuration Management Capabilities into CloudLab Experiments
Dmitry Duplyakin and Robert Ricci
In CNERT 2016 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Report of the NSF Workshop on Software Defined Infrastructures and Software Defined Exchanges
Robert Ricci and Nick Feamster
In 2016 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

On-demand secure service with virtual machines
Myungho Jung
In 2016 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Realistic Packet Reordering for Network Emulation and Simulation
Aisha Syed and Robert Ricci
In CoNEXT 2015 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

ATOM: Automated Tracking, Orchestration and Monitoring of Resource Usage in Infrastructure as a Service Systems
Min Du and Feifei Li
In IEEE BigData 2015 [ bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

SeaCat: An SDN end-to-end containment architecture
Makito Kano
Masters Thesis, 2015 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Using Deduplicating Storage for Efficient Disk Image Deployment
Xing Lin, Mike Hibler, Eric Eide, and Robert Ricci
In TRIDENTCOM 2015 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Apt: A Platform for Repeatable Research in Computer Science
Robert Ricci, Gary Wong, Leigh Stoller, Kirk Webb, Jonathon Duerig, Keith Downie, and Mike Hibler
In OSR 49(1), January 2015 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Harnessing GPU Computing in System-Level Software
Weibin Sun
PhD Dissertation, University of Utah 2014 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Realistic Traffic Shaping in the Dummynet Link Emulator
Aisha Syed
Masters Thesis, University of Utah 2014 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

DEIDtect: Towards Distributed Elastic Intrusion Detection
Praveen Shanmugam, Naveen Subramanyam, Joe Breen, Corey Roach, and Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe
In DCC 2014 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Secret Key Extraction using Bluetooth Wireless Signal Strength Measurements
Sriram Nandha Premnath, Prarthana Lakshmane Gowda, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Neal Patwari, and Robert Ricci
In SECON 2014 [ bibtex ]

Fast and Flexible: Parallel Packet Processing with GPUs and Click
Weibin Sun and Robert Ricci
In ANCS 2013 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Image import and SSH security in Emulab
Srikanth Raju
Flux Technical Report FTN–2013–05 2013 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

FlowOps: Open Access Network Management And Operation
Matt Strum
Masters Thesis, University of Utah 2013 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

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 [ bibtex ]

Software Variability Mechanisms for Improving Run-Time Performance
Eric Eide
PhD Dissertation, University of Utah 2012 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

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 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Designing a Federated Testbed as a Distributed System
Robert Ricci, Jonathon Duerig, Leigh Stoller, Gary Wong, Srikanth Chikkulapelly, and Woojin Seok
In Tridentcom 2012 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

How To Build a Better Testbed: Lessons From a Decade of Network Experiments on Emulab
Fabien Hermenier and Robert Ricci
In Tridentcom 2012 (award paper) [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Partitioning Trust in Network Testbeds
Gary Wong, Robert Ricci, Jonathon Duerig, Leigh Stoller, Srikanth Chikkulapelly, and Woojin Seok
In HICSS 2012 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

A Scalable And Flexibile Node Configuration Service in an Advanced Network Testbed
Srikanth Chikkulapelly
Masters Thesis, University of Utah 2011 [ bibtex ]

Trusted Disk Loading in the Emulab Network Testbed
Cody Cutler, Mike Hibler, Eric Eide, and Robert Ricci
In CSET 2010 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Enhancing Realism And Scalability In Network Testbeds
Robert Ricci
PhD Dissertation, University of Utah 2010 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Modeling and Emulation of Internet Paths
Pramod Sanaga, Jonathon Duerig, Robert Ricci, and Jay Lepreau
In NSDI 2009 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Transparent Checkpoints of Closed Distributed Systems in Emulab
Anton Burtsev, Prashanth Radhakrishnan, Mike Hibler, and Jay Lepreau
In EuroSys 2009 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Large-scale Virtualization in the Emulab Network Testbed
Mike Hibler, Robert Ricci, Leigh Stoller, Jonathon Duerig, Shashi Guruprasad, Tim Stack, Kirk Webb, and Jay Lepreau
In USENIX ATC 2008 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Towards a High Quality Path-oriented Network Measurement and Storage System
David Johnson, Daniel Gebhardt, and Jay Lepreau
In PAM 2008 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

A Configurable and Extensible Transport Protocol
Patrick Bridges, Gary Wong, Matti Hiltunen, Richard Schlichting, and Matthew Barrick
In TON 15(6), December 2007 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

The Flexlab Approach to Realistic Evaluation of Networked Systems
Robert Ricci, Jonathon Duerig, Pramod Sanaga, Daniel Gebhardt, Mike Hibler, Kevin Atkinson, Junxing Zhang, Sneha Kumar Kasera, and Jay Lepreau
In NSDI 2007 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

An Experimentation Workbench for Replayable Networking Research
Eric Eide, Leigh Stoller, and Jay Lepreau
In NSDI 2007 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

An Experimentation Workbench for Replayable Networking Research
Eric Eide, Leigh Stoller, and Jay Lepreau
Flux Technical Note FTN–2006–03 2006 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Flexlab: A Realistic, Controlled, and Friendly Environment for Evaluating Networked Systems
Jonathon Duerig, Robert Ricci, Junxing Zhang, Daniel Gebhardt, Sneha Kumar Kasera, and Jay Lepreau
In HotNets 2006 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Automatic Online Validation of Network Configuration in the Emulab Network Testbed
David S. Anderson, Mike Hibler, Leigh Stoller, Tim Stack, and Jay Lepreau
In ICAC 2006 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Integrated Scientific Workflow Management for the Emulab Network Testbed
Eric Eide, Leigh Stoller, Tim Stack, Juliana Freire, and Jay Lepreau
In USENIX ATC 2006 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Mobile Emulab: A Robotic Wireless and Sensor Network Testbed
David Johnson, Tim Stack, Russ Fish, Daniel Montrallo Flickinger, Leigh Stoller, Robert Ricci, and Jay Lepreau
In INFOCOM 2006 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Integrated Scientific Workflow Management for the Emulab Network Testbed
Eric Eide, Leigh Stoller, Tim Stack, Juliana Freire, and Jay Lepreau
Flux Technical Note FTN–2006–01 2006 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Whack-on-LAN: Inexpensive Remote PC Reset
Grant Ayers, Kirk Webb, Mike Hibler, and Jay Lepreau
In 2005 [ bibtex ]

Comparison of k-ary n-cube and de Bruijn Overlays in QoS-constrained Multicast Applications
Richard West, Gary Wong, and Gerald Fry
In PDPTA 2005 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Integrated Network Experimentation using Simulation and Emulation
Shashi Guruprasad, Robert Ricci, and Jay Lepreau
In TridentCom 2005 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Implementing the Emulab-PlanetLab Portal: Experience and Lessons Learned
Kirk Webb, Mike Hibler, Robert Ricci, Austin Clements, and Jay Lepreau
In WORLDS 2004 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Fast, Scalable Disk Imaging with Frisbee
Mike Hibler, Leigh Stoller, Jay Lepreau, Robert Ricci, and Chad Barb
In USENIX ATC 2003 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Bees: A Secure, Resource-Controlled, Java-Based Execution Environment
Tim Stack, Eric Eide, and Jay Lepreau
In OPENARCH 2003 [ bibtex ]

A Solver for the Network Testbed Mapping Problem
Robert Ricci, Christopher Alfeld, and Jay Lepreau
In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review 33(2), April 2003 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

An Integrated Experimental Environment for Distributed Systems and Networks
Brian White, Jay Lepreau, Leigh Stoller, Robert Ricci, Shashi Guruprasad, Mac Newbold, Mike Hibler, Chad Barb, and Abhijeet Joglekar
In OSDI 2002 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

Lowering the Barrier to Wireless and Mobile Experimentation
Brian White, Jay Lepreau, and Shashi Guruprasad
In HotNets-I 2002 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Agile Protocols, an Application of Active Networking to Censor-Resistant Publishing Networks
Robert Ricci
In Undergraduate Thesis, University of Utah School of Computing 2001 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Active Protocols for Agile Censor-Resistant Networks
Robert Ricci and Jay Lepreau
In HotOS 2001 [ pdf :: slides :: bibtex ]

A Configurable and Extensible Transport Protocol
Gary Wong, Matti Hiltunen, and Richard Schlichting
In INFOCOM 2001 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

An OS Interface for Active Routers
Larry Peterson, Yitzchak Gottlieb, Mike Hibler, Patrick Tullmann, Jay Lepreau, Stephen Schwab, Hrishikesh Dandekar, Andrew Purtell, and John Hartman
In JSAC 19(3), March 2001 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Janos: A Java-Oriented OS for Active Network Nodes
Patrick Tullmann, Mike Hibler, and Jay Lepreau
In JSAC 19(3), March 2001 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Survivability through Customization and Adaptability: the Cactus Approach
Matti Hiltunen, Richard Schlichting, Carlos Ugarte, and Gary Wong
In DISCEX 2000 [ pdf :: bibtex ]

Implementing Integrated Fine-grain Customizable QoS Using Cactus
Matti Hiltunen, Richard Schlichting, and Gary Wong
In FTC 1999 [ bibtex ]

Flexible IDL Compilation for Complex Communication Patterns
Eric Eide, James Simister, Tim Stack, and Jay Lepreau
In Scientific Programming 7(3,4), 1999 [ bibtex ]

Flexible and Optimized IDL Compilation for Distributed Applications
Eric Eide, Jay Lepreau, and James Simister
In LCR 1998 [ bibtex ]

Flick: A Flexible, Optimizing IDL Compiler
Eric Eide, Kevin Frei, Bryan Ford, Jay Lepreau, and Gary Lindstrom
In PLDI 1997 [ bibtex ]