Publications

Disabling GPS is Not Enough: Cellular location leaks over the Internet.
Hamed Soroush, Keen Sung, Erik Learned-Miller, Brian Neil Levine, and Marc Liberatore. In Proc. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), pages 103--122, July 2013.
Keywords: Privacy; Cellular; Remote Inference; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [link]

Measurement and Analysis of Child Pornography Trafficking on P2P Networks (Runner-Up, Best Paper Award).
Ryan Hurley, Swagatika Prusty, Hamed Soroush, Robert J. Walls, Jeannie Albrecht, Emmanuel Cecchet, Brian Neil Levine, Marc Liberatore, Brian Lynn, and Janis Wolak. In Proc. Intl. World Wide Web Conference (WWW), page 11, May 2013.
Keywords: forensics; peer-to-peer; Award Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [link]

Disambiguation of Residential Wired and Wireless Access in a Forensic Setting.
Sookhyun Yang, Jim Kurose, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, page 5, April 2013.
Keywords: forensics; wireless; Synthesis project; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Efficient Tagging of Remote Peers During Child Pornography Investigations.
Marc Liberatore, Brian Neil Levine, Clay Shields, and Brian Lynn. Technical Report UM-CS-2012-035, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Computer Science, December 2012.
Keywords: forensics; peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Effectiveness and Detection of Denial-of-Service Attacks in Tor.
Norman Danner, Sam Defabbia-Kane, Danny Krizanc, and Marc Liberatore. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 15(3):11:1--11:25, November 2012.
Keywords: Anonymity; denial-of-service; onion routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Functional Privacy or Why Cookies are Better with Milk.
Robert J. Walls, Shane S. Clark, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security, August 2012.
Keywords: privacy; [bibtex] [PDF] [source_code] [workshop] [link]

Low Spreading Loss in Underwater Acoustic Networks Reduces RTS/CTS Effectiveness.
James W. Partan, Jim Kurose, Brian Neil Levine, and James Preisig. In Proc. ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), December 2011.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; wireless; underwater; Synthesis project; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Concurrent Wi-Fi for Mobile Users: Analysis and Measurements.
Hamed Soroush, Peter Gilbert, Nilanjan Banerjee, Brian Neil Levine, Mark Corner, and Landon Cox. In Proc. ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), page 12, December 2011.
Keywords: DOME; wireless; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A retrospective look at the UMass DOME mobile testbed (invited).
Hamed Soroush, Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark Corner, Brian Levine, and Brian Lynn. ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 15(4):2--15, October 2011.
Keywords: DOME; wireless; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Forensic Investigation of the OneSwarm Anonymous Filesharing System.
Swagatika Prusty, Brian Neil Levine, and Marc Liberatore. In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer & Communications Security (CCS), page 13, October 2011.
Keywords: forensics; peer-to-peer; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Economic Incentives for Protecting Digital Rights Online.
N. Boris Margolin, Brian Neil Levine, James D. Miller, and Matthew Wright. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 10(5):553-564, September 2011.
Keywords: security; Sybil attack; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [doi] [link]

Effective Digital Forensics Research is Investigator-Centric.
Robert J. Walls, Brian Neil Levine, Marc Liberatore, and Clay Shields. In Proc. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2011.
Keywords: forensics; security; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [audio] [video] [link]

Spider: Improving Mobile Networking with Concurrent Wi-Fi Connections (Poster).
Hamed Soroush, Peter Gilbert, Nilanjan Banerjee, Brian Neil Levine, Mark Corner, and Landon Cox. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, August 2011.
Keywords: DOME; wireless; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Forensic Triage for Mobile Phones with DEC0DE.
Robert J. Walls, Erik Learned-Miller, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, August 2011.
Keywords: forensics; Synthesis project; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [audio] [video] [link]

Liquid: A detection-resistant covert timing channel based on IPD shaping.
Robert J. Walls, Kush Kothari, and Matthew Wright. Computer Networks, 55(6):1217--1228, April 2011.
Keywords: Timing analysis; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Architecting Protocols to Enable Mobile Applications in Diverse Wireless Networks.
Aruna Balasubramanian. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, February 2011.
Keywords: thesis; dtn; wireless; routing; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Empirical Tests of Anonymous Voice Over IP.
Marc Liberatore, Bikas Gurung, Brian Neil Levine, and Matthew Wright. Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 34(1):341-350, January 2011.
Keywords: privacy; anonymity; peer-to-peer; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Bounds on Service Quality for Networks Subject to Augmentation And Attack.
George Bissias. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, December 2010.
Keywords: security; thesis; wireless; routing; DTN; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Assessing the Vulnerability of Replicated Network Services.
George Bissias, Brian Neil Levine, and Ramesh Sitaraman. In Proc. ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), November 2010.
Keywords: security; wireless; routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Strengthening Forensic Investigations of Child Pornography on P2P Networks.
Marc Liberatore, Brian Neil Levine, and Clay Shields. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Future Networking Technologies (CoNEXT), November 2010.
Keywords: forensics; peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Reverse Engineering for Mobile Systems Forensics with Ares.
John Tuttle, Robert J. Walls, Erik Learned-Miller, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Workshop on Insider Threats, October 2010.
Keywords: forensics; [bibtex] [PDF] [workshop] [link]

An Adaptive Link Layer for Heterogeneous Multi-radio Mobile Sensor Networks.
Jeremy Gummeson, Deepak Ganesan, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy. IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Simple Wireless Sensor Networking Solutions, 28(7):1094--1104, September 2010.
Keywords: Journal Paper; wireless; Power Management; ; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Forensic Investigation of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks.
Marc Liberatore, Robert Erdely, Thomas Kerle, Brian Neil Levine, and Clay Shields. In Proc. DFRWS Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference, August 2010.
Keywords: forensics; peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Spatial Reuse in Underwater Acoustic Networks using RTS/CTS MAC Protocols.
James W. Partan, Jim Kurose, Brian Neil Levine, and James Preisig. Technical Report UM-CS-2010-045, University of Massachusetts Amherst, July 2010.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; wireless; underwater; Tech report; Synthesis project; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Virtual Compass: relative positioning to sense mobile social interactions.
Nilanjan Banerjee, Sharad Agarwal, Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, and Mark D. Corner. In Proc. Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, number LNCS 6030, pages 1--21, Helsinki, Finland, May 2010.
Keywords: Pervasive/UbiComp; Power Management; wireless; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Replication Routing in DTNs: A Resource Allocation Approach.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine, and Arun Venkataramani. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 18(2):596--609, April 2010.
Keywords: DTN; routing; Journal Paper; wireless; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Design and Field Experimentation of an Energy-Efficient Architecture for DTN Throwboxes.
Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, and Brian Neil Levine. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 18(2):554--567, April 2010.
Keywords: Power Management; DTN; Journal Paper; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

System support for perpetual mobile tracking.
Jacob Sorber. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, January 2010.
Keywords: DOME; Power Management; Programming Languages; ; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Liquid: A detection-resistant covert timing channel based on IPD shaping.
Robert Walls. Master's thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009.
Keywords: anonymity; [bibtex] [link]

Hierarchical power management in disruption tolerant networks using traffic aware optimization.
Hyewon Jun, Mostafa H. Ammar, Mark D. Corner, and Ellen W. Zegura. Computer Communications, 32(16):1710-1723, October 2009.
Keywords: Journal Paper; Power Management; DTN; wireless; DOME; [bibtex] [link]

DEX: Digital Evidence Provenance Supporting Reproducibility and Comparison.
Brian Neil Levine and Marc Liberatore. In Proc. of DFRWS Annual Conference, August 2009.
Keywords: forensics; [bibtex] [PDF] [conference] [link]

SEVA: Sensor Enhanced Video Annotation.
Xiaotao Liu, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), 5(3):1--26, August 2009.
Keywords: Pervasive/UbiComp; RFID; Journal Paper; wireless; [bibtex] [link]

DOME: A Diverse Outdoor Mobile Testbed.
Hamed Soroush, Nilanjan Banerjee, Aruna Balasubramanian, Mark D. Corner, Brian Neil Levine, and Brian Lynn. In Proc. ACM Intl. Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-Scale Mobility Measurements (HotPlanet), June 2009.
Keywords: Wireless; DTN; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [link]

Auditing and Forensic Analysis.
Brian Neil Levine and Gerome Miklau. In M. Tamer A-Zsu and Ling Liu, editors, Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer-Verlag, June 2009.
Keywords: Auditing; forensics; database security; ; [bibtex] [table_of_contents] [link]

Improved Network Consistency and Connection in Mobile and Sensor Systems.
Nilanjan Banerjee. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2009.
Keywords: DOME; dtn; Power Management; wireless; Pervasive/UbiComp; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

An Adaptive Link Layer for Range Diversity in Multi-radio Mobile Sensor Networks.
Jeremy Gummeson, Deepak Ganesan, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy. In The 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pages 154-162, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
Keywords: wireless; Power Management; ; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Detecting Denial of Service Attacks in Tor.
Norman Danner, Danny Krizanc, and Marc Liberatore. In Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Rockley, Christ Church, Barbados, February 2009.
Keywords: security; anonymity; ; [bibtex] [link]

Memory Buddies: Exploiting Page Sharing for Smart Colocation in Virtualized Data Centers.
Timothy Wood, Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Prashant Shenoy, Peter Desnoyers, Emmanuel Cecchet, and Mark D. Corner. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), pages 31--40, Washington, DC, USA, January 2009.
Keywords: Operating Systems; ; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies. Appendix D: Technology Advisory Board Report.
Laura DeBonis, Ben Adida, Scott Bradner, Hany Farid, Lee Hollaar, Todd Inskeep, Brian Neil Levine, Adi Mcabian, R.L. Morgan, Lam Nguyen, Jeff Schiller, and Danny Weitzner. Technical report, Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States, December 2008.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; forensics; [bibtex] [appendix_d] [full_report] [link]

Enabling Interactive Web Applications in Hybrid Networks.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine, and Arun Venkataramani. In Proc. ACM Mobicom, pages 70--80, September 2008.
Keywords: wireless; DTN; information retrieval; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Relays, Base Stations, and Meshes: Enhancing Mobile Networks with Infrastructure.
Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, Don Towsley, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Mobicom, pages 81--91, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2008.
Keywords: Wireless; DTN; DOME; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [link]

Interactive WiFi Connectivity for Moving Vehicles.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, Brian Neil Levine, and John Zahorjan. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, pages 427--438, August 2008.
Keywords: wireless; DTN; DOME; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Chameleon: Application Level Power Management.
Xiaotao Liu, Prashant Shenoy, and Mark D. Corner. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 7(8):995-1010, August 2008.
Keywords: Power Management; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [link]

Sherlock: Automatically locating objects for humans.
Aditya Nemmaluri, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy. In Proceedings of MobiSys, pages 187-198, Breckenridge, CO, June 2008.
Keywords: Pervasive/UbiComp; RFID; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

MORA Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption-Tolerant Networks.
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian Neil Levine. Elsevier Ad hoc Networks Journal, 6(4):600-620, June 2008.
Keywords: DTN; routing; Synthesis project; Journal Paper; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Passive-Logging Attacks Against Anonymous Communications Systems.
Matthew Wright, Micah Adler, Brian Neil Levine, and Clay Shields. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 11(2), May 2008.
Keywords: anonymity; peer-to-peer; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Low-Latency Anonymity System: Statistical Attacks and New Applications.
Marc Liberatore. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 2008.
Keywords: security; Thesis; anonymity; ; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Quantifying Resistance to the Sybil Attack.
N. Boris Margolin and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pages 1--15, January 2008.
Keywords: Sybil attack; peer-to-peer; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems.
Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Garber, Matthew Brennan, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger. In Proceedings of The Fifth International ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), pages 161-174, Sydney, Australia, November 2007.
Keywords: DOME; wireless; Power Management; Programming Languages; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Contributing Storage using the Transparent File System.
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger. ACM Transactions on Storage, 3(3):12:1-12:26, October 2007.
Keywords: Operating Systems; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [link]

A Survey of Practical Issues in Underwater Networks.
James W. Partan, Jim Kurose, and Brian Neil Levine. Special Issue of ACM Mobile Computing Communications Review, 11(4):23--33, October 2007.
Keywords: DTN; underwater; wireless; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Web Search From a Bus.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine, and Arun Venkataramani. In Proc. ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), pages 59--66, September 2007.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; information retrieval; Synthesis project; DOME; [bibtex] [traces] [pdf] [link]

Study of a Bus-Based Disruption Tolerant Network: Mobility Modeling and Impact on Routing.
Xiaolan Zhang, Jim Kurose, Brian Neil Levine, Don Towsley, and Honggang Zhang. In Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom), pages 195--206, September 2007.
Keywords: DTN; routing; wireless; DOME; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [slides] [acm] [link]

Users and Batteries: Interactions and Adaptive Energy Management in Mobile Systems.
Nilanjan Banerjee, Ahmad Rahmati, Mark D. Corner, Sami Rollins, and Lin Zhong. In Proceedings of Ubicomp, pages 217-234, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007.
Keywords: Power Management; Pervasive/UbiComp; Operating Systems; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Surviving Attacks on Disruption-Tolerant Networks without Authentication.
John Burgess, George Bissias, Mark D. Corner, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), pages 61--70, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 2007.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; security; routing; DOME; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [slides] [link]

DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine, and Arun Venkataramani. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, pages 373--384, August 2007.
Keywords: DTN; routing; wireless; DOME; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Triage: Balancing Energy Consumption and Quality of Service in a Microserver.
Nilanjan Banerjee, Jacob Sorber, Mark D. Corner, Sami Rollins, and Deepak Ganesan. In Proceedings of The Fifth International ACM/USENIX Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), pages 152--164, Puerto Rico, June 2007.
Keywords: Power Management; Operating Systems; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [slides] [link]

Threats to Privacy in the Forensic Analysis of Database Systems.
Patrick Stahlberg, Gerome Miklau, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Intl Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 91--102, June 2007.
Keywords: forensics; database security; Privacy; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Bounding Damage From Link Destruction with Application to the Internet (extended abstract).
George Bissias, Brian Neil Levine, and Arnold L. Rosenberg. In Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, pages 367---368, June 2007.
Keywords: security; routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [poster] [link]

An Energy-Efficient Architecture for DTN Throwboxes.
Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, pages 776--784, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.
Keywords: Power Management; DTN; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [slides] [link]

TFS: A Transparent File System for Contributory Storage (Best Paper Award).
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger. In Proceedings of USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), pages 215-229, San Jose, CA, February 2007.
Keywords: Operating Systems; Award Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [slides] [link]

Informant: Detecting Sybils Using Incentives.
N. Boris Margolin and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pages 192--207, February 2007.
Keywords: Sybil attack; peer-to-peer; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [presentation] [link]

Cheat-Proof Playout for Centralized and Peer-to-Peer Gaming.
Nathaniel E. Baughman, Marc Liberatore, and Brian Neil Levine. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 15(1):1--13, February 2007.
Keywords: security; gaming; peer-to-peer; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Securing History: Privacy and Accountability in Database Systems.
Gerome Miklau, Brian Neil Levine, and Patrick Stahlberg. In Biennial ACM/VLDB Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), pages 387--396, January 2007.
Keywords: database security; forensics; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

eFlux: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems.
Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Garber, Matthew Brennan, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger. Technical Report TR 06-61, University of Massachusetts Amherst, December 2006.
Keywords: Power Management; Programming Languages; Tech report; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Maximizing Transfer Opportunities in Bluetooth DTNs.
Marc Liberatore, Brian Neil Levine, and Chadi Barakat. In Proc. ACM Conference on Future Networking Technologies (CoNext), December 2006.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; MAC Protocols; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

Mobile Device Security using Transient Authentication.
Anthony Nicholson, Mark D. Corner, and Brian D. Noble. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 5(11):1489-1502, November 2006.
Keywords: Transient Authentication; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A Survey of Solutions to the Sybil Attack.
Brian Neil Levine, Clay Shields, and N. Boris Margolin. Tech report 2006-052, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, October 2006.
Keywords: Sybil attack; peer-to-peer; security; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Inferring the Source of Encrypted HTTP Connections.
Marc Liberatore and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pages 255--263, October 2006.
Keywords: security; privacy; anonymity; forensics; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Capacity Enhancement using Throwboxes in DTNs.
Wenrui Zhao, Yang Chen, Mostafa Ammar, Mark D. Corner, Brian Neil Levine, and Ellen Zegura. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conf on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), pages 31-40, October 2006.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

A Survey of Practical Issues in Underwater Networks.
James W. Partan, Jim Kurose, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), pages 17--24, September 2006.
Keywords: DTN; underwater; wireless; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

Hierarchical Power Management in Disruption Tolerant Networks with Traffic-Aware Optimization.
Hyewon Jun, Mostafa H. Ammar, Mark D. Corner, and Ellen Zegura. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), pages 245-252, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

LLAMA: An Adaptive Strategy for Utilizing Excess Energy to Perform Background Tasks on Mobile Devices.
Denitsa Tilkidjieva, Nilanjan Banerjee, Maria Kazandjieva, Sami Rollins, and Mark D. Corner. Technical Report 06-44, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, September 2006.
Keywords: Power Management; Pervasive/UbiComp; Tech report; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Ferret: RFID Locationing for Pervasive Multimedia.
Xiaotao Liu, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy. In Proceedings of Ubicomp, pages 422-440, Irvine, CA, September 2006.
Keywords: Pervasive/UbiComp; RFID; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [slides] [link]

Detecting the Sybil Attack in Ad hoc Networks.
Chris Piro, Clay Shields, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), pages 1--11, August 2006.
Keywords: security; Sybil attack; wireless; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Transparent Contribution of Memory (Short Paper).
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger. In Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pages 109-114, Boston, MA, May 2006.
Keywords: Operating Systems; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [slides] [link]

Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks.
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 2105--2110, May 2006.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; routing; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

MaxProp: Routing for Vehicle-Based Disruption-Tolerant Networks.
John Burgess, Brian Gallagher, David Jensen, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 2006.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; routing; Synthesis project; DOME; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [link]

An Adaptive Strategy for Performing Background Tasks on Mobile Devices. (Poster/Demo).
Denitsa Tilkidjieva, Nilanjan Banerjee, Maria Kazandjieva, Sami Rollins, and Mark D. Corner. In 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile/WMCSA), Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, April 2006.
Keywords: Operating Systems; Power Management; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

eFlux: Simple Automatic Adaptation for Environmentally Powered Devices (Poster/Demo).
Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Brennan, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger. In 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile/WMCSA), Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, April 2006.
Keywords: Operating Systems; Power Management; Programming Languages; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

On the Cost-Ineffectiveness of Redundancy in Commercial P2P Computing.
Matthew Yurkewych, Brian Neil Levine, and Arnold L. Rosenberg. In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pages 280--288, November 2005.
Keywords: security; peer-to-peer; Sybil attack; Synthesis project; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Chameleon: Application Controlled Power Management with Performance Isolation.
Xiaotao Liu, Prashant Shenoy, and Mark D. Corner. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, pages 839-848, Singapore, November 2005.
Keywords: Power Management; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

SEVA: Sensor-Enhanced Video Annotation (Best Paper Award).
Xiaotao Liu, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, pages 618-627, Singapore, November 2005.
Keywords: Pervasive/UbiComp; Award Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Creating Social Networks to Improve Peer-to-Peer Networking.
Andrew Fast, David Jensen, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining (KDD), pages 568--573, August 2005.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Supporting P2P Gaming When Players Have Heterogeneous Resources.
Aaron St. John and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), pages 1--6, June 2005.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; gaming; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Turducken: Hierarchical Power Management for Mobile Devices.
Jacob Sorber, Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, and Sami Rollins. In Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), pages 261-274, Seattle, WA, June 2005.
Keywords: Power Management; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Privacy Vulnerabilities in Encrypted HTTP Streams.
George Bissias, Marc Liberatore, David Jensen, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET), pages 1--11, May 2005.
Keywords: security; anonymity; privacy; [bibtex] [traces] [PDF] [link]

Distributed Information Retrieval For Disruption-Tolerant Mobile Networks.
Yun Zhou, Brian Neil Levine, and W. Bruce Croft. CIIR Technical Report IR-412, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 2005.
Keywords: DTN; information retrieval; DOME; [bibtex] [pdf] [link]

Authenticated Routing for Ad hoc Networks.
Kimaya Sanzgiri, Bridget Dahill, Daniel LaFlamme, Brian Neil Levine, Clay Shields, and Elizabeth Belding-Royer. IEEE/ACM Journal of Selected Areas in Communications: Special issue on Wireless Ad hoc Networks (JSAC), 23(3):598--610, March 2005.
Keywords: wireless; security; routing; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

MV Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption Tolerant Networks.
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, pages 398--408, March 2005.
Keywords: routing; DTN; wireless; Synthesis project; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Passive Logging Attacks Against Anonymous Communications Systems.
Matthew Wright. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, January 2005.
Keywords: anonymity; Thesis; Security; privacy; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Protecting File Systems with Transient Authentication.
Mark D. Corner and Brian D. Noble. ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, 11(1):7, January 2005.
Keywords: Transient Authentication; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [link]

The Predecessor Attack: An Analysis of a Threat to Anonymous Communications Systems.
Matthew Wright, Micah Adler, Brian Neil Levine, and Clay Shields. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 4(7):489--522, November 2004.
Keywords: anonymity; peer-to-peer; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Analysis of an Incentives-based Protection System.
N. Boris Margolin, Matthew Wright, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop (DRM), pages 22--30, October 2004.
Keywords: security; Sybil attack; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

Information Sharing in Out-of-Hospital Disaster Response: The Future Role of Information Technology.
Jeffrey Arnold, Brian Neil Levine, R. Manmatha, F. Lee, Prashant Shenoy, M.-C. Tsai, T.K. Ibrahim, D. OBrien, and D.A. Walsh. Journal of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 19(3):201--207, July 2004.
Keywords: wireless; peer-to-peer; DTN; Journal Paper; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A Multi-agent Approach for Peer-to-Peer based Information Retrieval System.
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine, and Victor Lesser. In Proc. Intl. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pages 456--464, July 2004.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; Synthesis project; information retrieval; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

An Evaluation of Chord Using Traces of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (extended abstract).
Jacky Chu, Kevin Labonte, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, pages 432--433, June 2004.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Exploring the Use of BitTorrent as the Basis for a Large Trace Repository.
Anthony Bellissimo, Prashant Shenoy, and Brian Neil Levine. Technical Report 04-41, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dept. of Computer Science, June 2004.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [tech_report] [link]

SPIES: Secrets Protection Incentives-based Escrow System.
N. Boris Margolin, Matthew Wright, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Workshop on the Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems (p2pEcon), June 2004.
Keywords: security; Sybil attack; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Surviving Attacks on DNS using Ubiquitous Replication.
Daniel LaFlamme and Brian Neil Levine. Technical Report 04-11, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dept. of Computer Science, March 2004.
Keywords: security; Tech report; [bibtex] [tech_report] [link]

Timing Attacks in Low-Latency Mix Systems.
Brian Neil Levine, Mike Reiter, Chenxi Wang, and Matthew Wright. In Proc. Financial Cryptography (FC) (LNCS 3110), pages 251---265, February 2004.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Mobile Distributed Information Retrieval For Highly Partitioned Networks.
Katrina M. Hanna, Brian Neil Levine, and R. Manmatha. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 38--47, November 2003.
Keywords: routing; DTN; wireless; Synthesis project; information retrieval; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

Transient Authentication for Mobile Devices.
Mark D. Corner. PhD thesis, University of Michigan, August 2003.
Keywords: Transient Authentication; Thesis; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Organizing Multicast Receivers Deterministically According to Packet-Loss Correlation.
Brian Neil Levine, Sanjoy Paul, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, 9(1):3--14, July 2003.
Keywords: multicast; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Defending Anonymous Communication Against Passive Logging Attacks.
Matthew Wright, Micah Adler, Brian Neil Levine, and Clay Shields. In Proc. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), pages 28--41, May 2003.
Keywords: anonymity; peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Protecting Applications with Transient Authentication.
Mark D. Corner and Brian D. Noble. In Proceedings of The First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), pages 57-70, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.
Keywords: Transient Authentication; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Adaptive Peer Selection.
Daniel Bernstein, Zhengzhu Feng, Brian Neil Levine, and Shlomo Zilberstein. In Proc. Intl. Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), pages 237--246, February 2003.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; Synthesis project; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A Secure Routing Protocol for Ad hoc Networks.
Kimaya Sanzgiri, Bridget Dahill, Brian Neil Levine, Clay Shields, and Elizabeth Belding-Royer. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 78--89, November 2002.
Keywords: security; wireless; routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Hordes - A Multicast Based Protocol for Anonymity.
Brian Neil Levine and Clay Shields. Journal of Computer Security, 10(3):213--240, September 2002.
Keywords: anonymity; multicast; peer-to-peer; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Zero-Interaction Authentication (Best Student Paper Award).
Mark D. Corner and Brian D. Noble. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Communications (MobiCom), pages 1-11, Atlanta, GA, September 2002.
Keywords: Transient Authentication; Award Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

The Case for Transient Authentication.
Brian D. Noble and Mark D. Corner. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, pages 24-29, Saint-Emillion, France, September 2002.
Keywords: Transient Authentication; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Availability and Locality Measurements of Peer-to-Peer File Systems.
Jacky Chu, Kevin Labonte, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ITCom: Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks II Conference, volume SPIE 4868, pages 310--321, July 2002.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

An Analysis of the Degradation of Anonymous Protocols.
Matthew Wright, Micah Adler, Brian Neil Levine, and Clay Shields. In Proc. ISOC Symposium Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS), pages 38--50, February 2002. Outstanding Paper Award.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; anonymity; award paper; Synthesis project; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [link]

Responder Anonymity and Anonymous Peer-to-Peer File Sharing.
Vincent Scarlata, Brian Neil Levine, and Clay Shields. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 272--280, November 2001.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Evaluation of a Novel Two-Step Server Selection Metric.
Katrina M. Hanna, Nandini Natarajan, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 290--300, November 2001.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Wearable Computers and Packet Transport Mechanisms in Highly Partitioned Ad hoc Networks.
James Davis, Andy Fagg, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp on Wearable Computers (ISWC), pages 141--148, October 2001.
Keywords: wireless; DTN; routing; Synthesis project; DOME; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Cheat-Proof Playout for Centralized and Distributed Online Games.
Nathaniel E. Baughman and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. IEEE Infocom, pages 104--113, April 2001.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; gaming; security; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Fugue: Time Scales of Adaptation in Mobile Video.
Mark D. Corner, Brian D. Noble, and Kimberly M. Wasserman. In Proceedings of the SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN), pages 75-87, San Jose, CA, January 2001.
Keywords: Power Management; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [link]

A Protocol for Anonymous Communication Over the Internet.
Clay Shields and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS), pages 33--43, November 2000.
Keywords: anonymity; multicast; peer-to-peer; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A Hierarchical Multicast Monitoring Scheme.
Joerg Walz and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Intl. Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC), pages 105--116, November 2000.
Keywords: multicast; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A Priority Scheme for the IEEE 802.14 MAC Protocol for Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks.
Mark D. Corner, Jorg Liebeherr, Nada Golmie, Chatschik Bisdikian, and David Su. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 8(2):200-211, April 2000.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Consideration of Receiver Interest for IP Multicast Delivery.
Brian Neil Levine, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot, J.J. Garcia-Luna Aceves, and Jim Kurose. In Proc. IEEE Infocom, pages 470--479, March 2000.
Keywords: multicast; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Deployment Issues for the IP Multicast Service and Architecture.
Christophe Diot, Brian Neil Levine, Bryan Lyles, H. Kassan, and D. Balsiefien. IEEE Network: Special Issue on Multicasting, 14(1):78--88, January 2000.
Keywords: multicast; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Brian Neil Levine, Christophe Diot, and Christian Huitema. Routing in the Internet, chapter 11: IP Multicast Routing, pages 235--260. Pearson Education, second edition, November 1999.
Keywords: multicast; [bibtex] [link]

Network Support for Group Communication.
Brian Neil Levine. PhD thesis, Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, June 1999.
Keywords: multicast; routing; thesis; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

ATM Traffic Control in Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks - Problems and Solutions.
Nada Golmie, Mark D. Corner, Jorg Liebeherr, and David Su. Computer Communications, 22(1):30-39, January 1999.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Organizing Multicast Receivers Deterministically According to Packet-Loss Correlation.
Brian Neil Levine, Sanjoy Paul, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. In Proc. ACM Multimedia, pages 201--210, September 1998.
Keywords: multicast; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A Comparison of Reliable Multicast Protocols.
Brian Neil Levine and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, 6(5):334--348, August 1998.
Keywords: multicast; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Choice of Medium Access Control Protocol for HFC Networks (Workshop).
Nada Golmie, Mark D. Corner, and David Su. In LANMAN Workshop, Banff, Canada, May 1998.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [link]

Quality of Service Issues in Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks.
Mark D. Corner. Master's thesis, University of Virginia, May 1998.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; Thesis; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A Priority Scheme for the IEEE 802.14 MAC Protocol for Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks.
Mark D. Corner, Nada Golmie, Jorg Liebeherr, and David Su. In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, pages 1400--1407, San Francisco, CA, April 1998.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Improving the Effectiveness of ATM Traffic Control over Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks.
Nada Golmie, Mark D. Corner, Jorg Liebeherr, and David Su. In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Phoenix, AZ, November 1997.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Improving Internet Multicast with Routing Labels.
Brian Neil Levine and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 241--50, October 1997.
Keywords: multicast; routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Brian Neil Levine. Multimedia Communications: Protocols and Applications, chapter 6: End-to-End Reliable Multicast, pages 169--191. Prentice-Hall, September 1997.
Keywords: multicast; chapter; [bibtex] [link]

Simulation Study of ABR Service over IEEE 802.14 MAC (Working Group).
Nada Golmie, David Su, Mark D. Corner, and Jorg Liebeherr. In IEEE Project 802.14, Cable TV Protocol Working Group, January 1997. Contribution IEEE 802.14/97-011.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

The Case for Reliable Concurrent Multicasting Using Shared Ack Trees.
Brian Neil Levine, D. Lavo, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. In Proc. ACM Multimedia, pages 365--376, November 1996.
Keywords: multicast; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

A Comparison of Known Classes of Reliable Multicast Protocols.
Brian Neil Levine and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 112--121, October 1996.
Keywords: multicast; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]

Contention Resolution Schemes for Community Networks: A Comparative Evaluation (Workshop).
Jorg Liebeherr and Mark D. Corner. In 11th Annual Workshop on Computer Communications, Reston, VA, September 1996.
Keywords: MAC Protocols; [bibtex] [link]

A Comparison of Known Classes of Reliable Multicast Protocols.
Brian Neil Levine. Master's thesis, Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, June 1996.
Keywords: multicast; thesis; [bibtex] [PDF] [link]