Publications By Area

Network Security
(Network Distributed Denial of Service DDoS)


Journal Publications

Countering DDoS Attacks with Multi-path Overlay Networks
Angelos Stavrou and Angelos D. Keromytis. To appear in the Information Assurance Technology Analysis Center (IATAC) Information Assurance Newsletter (IAnewsletter), vol. 9, no. 3, November 2006. (Invited paper, based on the CCS 2005 paper.)[pdf]

WebSOS: An Overlay-based System For Protecting Web Servers From Denial of Service Attacks
Angelos Stavrou, Debra L. Cook, William G. Morein, Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein. In Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, special issue on Web and Network Security, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 781 - 807. August 2005.
[pdf (255KB)] [ps (1.4MB)].

A Lightweight, Robust, P2P System to Handle Flash Crowds
Angelos Stavrou, Dan Rubenstein, Sambit Sahu.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), special issue on Service Overlay Networks, Volume 22, Number 1, January 2004.
[pdf 226KB] [ps 421KB].

 

Conference Publications

Network Security as a Composable Service
Stelios Sidiroglou, Angelos Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium. May 2007, Princeton, NJ. (Invited paper)

Countering DoS Attacks With Stateless Multipath Overlays
Angelos Stavrou and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 249 - 259. November 2005, Alexandria, VA. (Acceptance rate: 15.2%)
[pdf (500KB)] [ps (1.9MB)].

MOVE: An End-to-End Solution To Network Denial of Service
Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason Nieh, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein. In Proceedings of the Internet Society (ISOC) Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS), pp. 81 - 96. February 2005, San Diego, CA.
(Acceptance rate: 12.9%). [pdf (3.9MB)] [ps (1.2MB)].

Using Graphic Turing Tests to Counter Automated DDoS Attacks Against Web Servers
William G. Morein, Angelos Stavrou, Debra L. Cook, Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein.
In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Washington, DC, October 2003.
[pdf (225K)][ps (884K)] [ps.gz (421K)].

A Lightweight, Robust P2P System to Handle Flash Crowds
Angelos Stavrou, Dan Rubenstein and Sambit Sahu.
In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2002, Paris, France, November, 2002.
[Proceedings Version ps (252K)] [Proceedings Version ps.gz (65K)] [Proceedings Version pdf (143K)]
An earlier version is available as Columbia Technical Report EE020321-1, February, 2002. [Tech Report ps (508K)] [Tech Report ps.gz (109K)] [Tech Report pdf (242K)].

A Pay-per-Use DoS Protection Mechanism For The Web
Angelos Stavrou, John Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein.
In Proceedings of the Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) Conference.
June 2004, Yellow Mountain, China. LNCS Volume 3089/2004, pp. 120-134, ISBN: 3-540-22217-0
[pdf (195KB)] [ps (1.2M)].

gore: Routing-Assisted Defense Against DDoS Attacks
Stephen T. Chou, Angelos Stavrou, John Ioannidis, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 8th Information Security Conference (ISC). September 2005, Singapore. (Acceptance rate: 14%)
[pdf (5.4MB)] [pdf image compressed (251KB)] [ps (1MB)].

Under Submission

Exploiting the Structure in DHT Overlays for DoS Protection
Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Dan Rubenstein. Columbia University Computer Science Department Technical Report CUCS-019-04.

 

Botnets & Phishing (with Michael Locasto)

Dark Application Communities
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 15th New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2006). September 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. [pdf] [ps]

W3Bcrypt: Encryption as a Stylesheet
Angelos Stavrou, Michael E. Locasto, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), pp. 349-364, June 6-9, 2006, Singapore. [pdf(305KB)] [ps (1.2MB)]
Also available as Columbia University Computer Science Department Technical Report CUCS-003-06.

 

Software Protection (with Michael Locasto)

From STEM to SEAD: Speculative Execution for Automated Defense.
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
To appear in Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2007), June 2007, Santa Clara, CA. An earlier draft of this work is available as Columbia University CS Tech Report CUCS-004-07 (Acceptance rate: 18.75%)

Under Submission

On the infeasibility of Modeling Polymorphic Shellcode for Signature Detection.
Yingbo Song, Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis, Salvatore J. Stolfo
Feb 2007

A Model for Automatically Repairing Execution Integrity.
Michael Locasto, Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis
Jan, 2007

Quantifying Application Behavior Space for Detection and Self-Healing.
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos D. Keromytis and Salvatore J. Stolfo. Apr, 2006

 

Other Publications

Under Submission

A Case for P2P Delivery of Paid Content
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou, Jason Nieh, Cliff Stein, Angelos D. Keromytis
Nov, 2006

LinkWidth: A Method to measure Link Capacity and Available Bandwidth using Single-End Probes
Sambuddho Chakravarty, Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis
Nov 2006

Conference

Bridging the Network Reservation Gap Using Overlays
Angelos Stavrou, David Turner, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Vassilis Prevelakis. To appear in the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Information Assurance for Middleware Communications (IAMCOM). January 2007, Bangalore, India.
[pdf] [ps]

Content distribution for seamless transmission
Edward G. Coffman Jr., Andreas Constantinides, Dan Rubenstein, Bruce Shepherd, Angelos Stavrou In SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 32(2): 31-32 (2004)
[pdf (936 KB)].


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