b'Nick Feamster'

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∙ 06/01/2023

Estimating WebRTC Video QoE Metrics Without Using Application Headers

The increased use of video conferencing applications (VCAs) has made it ...

0 Taveesh Sharma, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/21/2023

Grace++: Loss-Resilient Real-Time Video Communication under High Network Latency

In real-time videos, resending any packets, especially in networks with ...

0 Yihua Cheng, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/10/2023

Measuring and Evading Turkmenistan's Internet Censorship: A Case Study in Large-Scale Measurements of a Low-Penetration Country

Since 2006, Turkmenistan has been listed as one of the few Internet enem...

0 Sadia Nourin, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/23/2023

AC-DC: Adaptive Ensemble Classification for Network Traffic Identification

Accurate and efficient network traffic classification is important for m...

0 Xi Jiang, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/03/2023

Augmenting Rule-based DNS Censorship Detection at Scale with Machine Learning

The proliferation of global censorship has led to the development of a p...

0 Jacob Alexander Markson Brown, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/27/2023

Augmented Reality's Potential for Identifying and Mitigating Home Privacy Leaks

Users face various privacy risks in smart homes, yet there are limited w...

0 Stefany Cruz, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/29/2022

Enabling Personalized Video Quality Optimization with VidHoc

The emerging video applications greatly increase the demand in network b...

0 Xu Zhang, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/29/2022

GRACE: Loss-Resilient Real-Time Video Communication Using Data-Scalable Autoencoder

Across many real-time video applications, we see a growing need (especia...

0 Yihua Cheng, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/04/2022

Coordinated Science Laboratory 70th Anniversary Symposium: The Future of Computing

In 2021, the Coordinated Science Laboratory CSL, an Interdisciplinary Re...

0 Klara Nahrstedt, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/09/2022

Measuring the Availability and Response Times of Public Encrypted DNS Resolvers

Unencrypted DNS traffic between users and DNS resolvers can lead to priv...

0 Ranya Sharma, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/09/2022

Understanding User Awareness and Behaviors Concerning Encrypted DNS Settings

Recent developments to encrypt the Domain Name System (DNS) have resulte...

0 Alexandra Nisenoff, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/24/2022

A Comparative Analysis of Ookla Speedtest and Measurement Labs Network Diagnostic Test (NDT7)

Consumers, regulators, and ISPs all use client-based "speed tests" to me...

0 Kyle MacMillan, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/23/2022

Towards Reproducible Network Traffic Analysis

Analysis techniques are critical for gaining insight into network traffi...

0 Jordan Holland, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/28/2021

A First Look at the Consolidation of DNS and Web Hosting Providers

Although the Internet continues to grow, it increasingly depends on a sm...

0 Synthia Wang, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/07/2021

LEAF: Navigating Concept Drift in Cellular Networks

Operational networks commonly rely on machine learning models for many t...

0 Shinan Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/27/2021

Measuring the Performance and Network Utilization of Popular Video Conferencing Applications

Video conferencing applications (VCAs) have become a critical Internet a...

0 Kyle MacMillan, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/27/2021

GPS-Based Geolocation of Consumer IP Addresses

This paper uses two commercial datasets of IP addresses from smartphones...

0 James Saxon, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/22/2021

An Efficient One-Class SVM for Anomaly Detection in the Internet of Things

Insecure Internet of things (IoT) devices pose significant threats to cr...

0 Kun Yang, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/26/2021

Software-Supported Audits of Decision-Making Systems: Testing Google and Facebook's Political Advertising Policies

How can society understand and hold accountable complex human and algori...

0 J. Nathan Matias, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/01/2020

Characterizing Service Provider Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in dramatic changes to the daily habi...

0 Shinan Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/27/2020

Beyond Accuracy: Cost-Aware Data Representation Exploration for Network Traffic Model Performance

In this paper, we explore how different representations of network traff...

0 Francesco Bronzino, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/06/2020

nPrint: A Standard Data Representation for Network Traffic Analysis

Conventional detection and classification ("fingerprinting") problems in...

0 Jordan Holland, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/14/2020

Measuring the Performance of Encrypted DNS Protocols from Broadband Access Networks

Until recently, DNS traffic was unencrypted, leaving users vulnerable to...

0 Austin Hounsel, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/30/2020

A Comparative Study of Network Traffic Representations for Novelty Detection

Data representation plays a critical role in the performance of novelty ...

0 Kun Yang, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/23/2020

Classifying Network Vendors at Internet Scale

In this paper, we develop a method to create a large, labeled dataset of...

0 Jordan Holland, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/28/2020

Supporting Early and Scalable Discovery of Disinformation Websites

Online disinformation is a serious and growing sociotechnical problem th...

0 Austin Hounsel, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/26/2020

Practicing Safe Browsing: Understanding How and Why University Students Use Virtual Private Networks

Despite their name and stated goal, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) ofte...

0 Agnieszka Dutkowska-Zuk, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/20/2020

D-DNS: Towards Re-Decentralizing the DNS

Nearly all Internet services rely on the Domain Name System (DNS) to res...

0 Austin Hounsel, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/28/2020

You, Me, and IoT: How Internet-Connected Home Devices Affect Interpersonal Relationships

Internet-connected "smart home" IoT devices have rapidly increased in po...

0 Noah Apthorpe, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/30/2019

Alexa, Who Am I Speaking To? Understanding Users' Ability to Identify Third-Party Apps on Amazon Alexa

Many Internet of Things (IoT) devices have voice user interfaces (VUIs)....

0 David J. Major, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/08/2019

New Problems and Solutions in IoT Security and Privacy

In a previous article for S P magazine, we made a case for the new int...

0 Earlence Fernandes, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/21/2019

IoT Inspector: Crowdsourcing Labeled Network Traffic from Smart Home Devices at Scale

The proliferation of smart home devices has created new opportunities fo...

0 Danny Yuxing Huang, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/18/2019

Analyzing the Costs (and Benefits) of DNS, DoT, and DoH for the Modern Web

Essentially all Internet communication relies on the Domain Name System ...

0 Austin Hounsel, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/07/2019

Internet Speed Measurement: Current Challenges and Future Recommendations

Government organizations, regulators, consumers, Internet service provid...

0 Nick Feamster, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/12/2019

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of Privacy Regulation: Parents' IoT Toy Privacy Norms Versus COPPA

Increased concern about data privacy has prompted new and updated data p...

0 Noah Apthorpe, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/26/2019

Selling a Single Item with Negative Externalities

We consider the problem of regulating products with negative externaliti...

0 Tithi Chattopadhyay, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/17/2019

Lightweight, General Inference of Streaming Video Quality from Encrypted Traffic

Accurately monitoring application performance is becoming more important...

0 Francesco Bronzino, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/03/2018

Keeping the Smart Home Private with Smart(er) IoT Traffic Shaping

The proliferation of smart home Internet of Things (IoT) devices present...

0 Noah Apthorpe, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/06/2018

Analyzing Privacy Policies Using Contextual Integrity Annotations

In this paper, we demonstrate the effectiveness of using the theory of c...

0 Yan Shvartzshnaider, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/22/2018

A Developer-Friendly Library for Smart Home IoT Privacy-Preserving Traffic Obfuscation

The number and variety of Internet-connected devices have grown enormous...

0 Trisha Datta, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/29/2018

How Do Tor Users Interact With Onion Services?

Onion services are anonymous network services that are exposed over the ...

0 Philipp Winter, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/04/2018

Automatically Generating a Large, Culture-Specific Blocklist for China

Internet censorship measurements rely on lists of websites to be tested,...

0 Austin Hounsel, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/04/2018

CensorSeeker: Generating a Large, Culture-Specific Blocklist for China

Internet censorship measurements rely on lists of websites to be tested,...

0 Austin Hounsel, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/01/2018

Oblivious DNS: Practical Privacy for DNS Queries

Every Internet communication typically involves a Domain Name System (DN...

0 Paul Schmitt, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/15/2018

Discovering Smart Home Internet of Things Privacy Norms Using Contextual Integrity

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices for consumer "smar...

0 Noah Apthorpe, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/07/2018

Security and Privacy Analyses of Internet of Things Toys

This paper investigates the security and privacy of Internet-connected c...

0 Gordon Chu, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/07/2018

Detecting Compressed Cleartext Traffic from Consumer Internet of Things Devices

Data encryption is the primary method of protecting the privacy of consu...

0 Daniel Hahn, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/11/2018

Machine Learning DDoS Detection for Consumer Internet of Things Devices

An increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are connecting ...

0 Rohan Doshi, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/27/2018

Cleartext Data Transmissions in Consumer IoT Medical Devices

This paper introduces a method to capture network traffic from medical I...

0 Daniel Wood, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/27/2018

Elmo: Source-Routed Multicast for Cloud Services

Modern data-center applications frequently exhibit one-to-many communica...

0 Muhammad Shahbaz, et al. ∙

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