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2021

• Automated Discovery of Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in Connected Vehicle Protocols by Shengtuo Hu, Qi Alfred Chen, Jiachen Sun, Yiheng Feng, Z. Morley Mao, Henry Liu, Proceedings of Usenix Security 2021.



2020

• MPBond: Efficient Network-level Collaboration Among Personal Mobile Devices by Xiao Zhu, Jiachen Sun, Xumiao Zhang, Y. Ethan Guo, Feng Qian, Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of MobiSys 2020 (PDF)


• CSI: Inferring Mobile ABR Video Adaptation Behavior under HTTPS and QUIC by Shichang Xu, Subhabrata Sen, Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of EuroSys 2020. (PDF)


• AVGuardian: Detecting and Mitigating Publish-Subscribe Overprivilege for Autonomous Vehicle Systems by D. Hong, J. Kloosterman, Y. Jin, Y. Cao, Q. Chen, S. Mahlke, Z. Mao, Proceedings of EuroS&P 2020.


• What You See Is What You Get: Measure ABR Video Streaming QoE via On-device Screen Recording by Shichang Xu, Eric Petajan, Subhabrata Sen, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2020.


• Towards Robust LiDAR-based Perception in Autonomous Driving by Jiachen Sun, Yulong Cao, Q. Chen, Z. Mao, Proceedings of CVPR 2020 Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning in Computer Vision 2020.


• Crafting Adversarial Examples on 3D Object Detection Sensor Fusion Models by Won Park, Q. Chen, Z. Mao, Proceedings of CVPR 2020 Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning in Computer Vision 2020.


• CVShield: Guarding Sensor Data in Connected Vehicle with Trusted Execution Environment by Shengtuo Hu, Qi Alfred Chen, Jiwon Joung, Can Carlak, Yiheng Feng, Z Morley Mao, Henry X Liu, Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Automotive and Aerial Vehicle Security 2020.


• Towards Robust LiDAR-based Perception in Autonomous Driving: General Black-box Adversarial Sensor Attack and Countermeasures by J. Sun, Y. Cao, Q. Chen, Z. Mao, Proceedings of Usenix Security 2020.


• Cyber-Vulnerability Analysis for Connected Vehicle Based Traffic Signal Control Systems by Shihong Huang, Wai Wong, Yiheng Feng, Qi Alfred Chen, Henry X. Liu, and Z. Morley Mao, Cyber-Vulnerability Analysis for Connected Vehicle Based Traffic Signal Control Systems, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB) 2020.



2019

• Egret: Simplifying Traffic Management for Physical and Virtual Network Functions by Yikai Lin, Ajay Mahimkar, Bo Han, Zihui Ge, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Z Morley Mao, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. ACM, 2019.


• Adversarial sensor attack on LiDAR-based perception in autonomous driving by Yulong Cao, Chaowei Xiao, Benjamin Cyr, Yimeng Zhou, Won Park, Sara Rampazzi, Qi Alfred Chen, Kevin Fu, Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of CCS 2019.


• ADD: Application and Data-Driven Controller Design by Yikai Lin, Yuru Shao, Xiao Zhu, Junpeng Guo, Kira Barton, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of SOSR 2019.


• MP-H2: a Client-only Multipath Solution for HTTP/2 by Ashkan Nikravesh, Yihua Guo, Xiao Zhu, Feng Qian, Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Mobicom 2019. (PDF)


• Towards Automated Safety Vetting of PLC Code in Real-World Plants by Mu Zhang, Chien-Ying Chen, Bin-Chou Kao, Yassine Qamsane, Yuru Shao, Yikai Lin, Elaine Shi, Sibin Mohan, Kira Barton, James Moyne and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019.


• Leveraging Context-Triggered Measurements to Characterize LTE Handover Performance by Shichang Xu, Ashkan Nikravesh, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of PAM 2019.


• A Lightweight Framework for Fine-Grained Lifecycle Control of Android Applications by Yuru Shao, Ruowen Wang, Xun Chen, Ahmed Azab, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of EuroSys 2019.


• Understanding the Networking Performance of Wear OS by Xiao Zhu, Yihua Ethan Guo, Ashkan Nikravesh, Feng Qian, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2019.


• PerfProbe: a systematic, cross-layer performance diagnosis framework for mobile platforms by David Ke Hong, Ashkan Nikravesh, Z Morley Mao, Mahesh Ketkar, Michael Kishinevsky, Proceedings of 2019 IEEE/ACM 6th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)


• Trajectory-Based Hierarchical Defense Model to Detect Cyber-Attacks on Transportation Infrastructure by Wai Wong, Shihong Huang, Yiheng Feng, Qi Alfred Chen, Henry X. Liu, and Z. Morley Mao, Transportation Research Board 2019 Annual Meeting (TRB), 2019.



2018

• SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-based LTE networks by Mehrdad Moradi, Karthik Sundaresan, Eugene Chai, Sampath Rangarajan, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Mobicom 2018. Best paper award.


• CommPact: Evaluating the Feasibility of Autonomous Vehicle Contracts by Jeremy Erickson, Shibo Chen, Melisa Savich, Shengtuo Hu, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of 2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC).


• CommPact: Exploring the Feasibility of Autonomous Vehicle Contracts by Jeremy Erickson, Mel Savich, Shibo Chen, Mert Pese, Shengtuo Hu and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Escar (Embedded Security in Cars) USA 2018.


• Dragon: Scalable, Flexible and Efficient Traffic Engineering Framework For ISP Networks by Mehrdad Moradi, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Ravi Manghirmalani, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Scalability Issues and Solutions for Software Defined Networks 2018.


• SoftBox: A Customizable, Low-Latency, and Scalable 5G Core Network Architecture by Mehrdad Moradi, Yikai Lin, Z. Morley Mao, Shubho Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, IEEE JSAC series on network softwarization and enablers 2018.


• No One In The Middle: Enabling Network Access Control Via Transparent Attribution by Jeremy Erickson, Qi Alfred Chen, Xiaochen Yu, Erinjen Lin, Robert Levy, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of AsiaCCS 2018.


• Pausing and Resuming Network Flows using Programmable Buffers by Yikai Lin, Ulaş C. Kozat, John Kaippallimalil, Mehrdad Moradi, Anthony C.K. Soong, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of SOSR 2018.


• Exposing Congestion Attack on Emerging Connected Vehicle based Traffic Signal Control by Qi Alfred Chen, Yucheng Yin, Yiheng Feng, Z. Morley Mao, and Henry X. Liu, Proceedings of the 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'18), San Diego, Feb. 2018.


• Vulnerability of Traffic Control System Under Cyber-Attacks Using Falsified Data by Yiheng Feng, Shihong Huang, Qi Alfred Chen, Henry X. Liu, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Transportation Research Board 2018 Annual Meeting (TRB'18), Washington, D.C., Jan. 2018.


• Production as a Service: A Digital Manufacturing Framework for Optimizing Utilization by Efe Balta, Yikai Lin, Kira Barton, Dawn Tilbury, Z. Morley Mao, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2018.


• QoE Inference and Improvement Without End-Host Control by Ashkan Nikravesh, Qi Alfred Chen, Scott Haseley, Xiao Zhu, Geoffrey Challen, Z. Morley Mao Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, Bellevue, WA, Oct. 2018.



2017

• Client-side Name Collision Vulnerability in the New gTLD Era: A Systematic Study by Qi Alfred Chen, Matthew Thomas, Eric Osterweil, Yulong Cao, Jie You, Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of CCS 2017.


• Dissecting HAS VOD Services for Cellular: Performance, Root Causes and Best Practices by Shichang Xu, Yunhan Jia, Z. Morley Mao, and Subhabrata Sen, Proceedings of IMC 2017.


• Accelerating Multipath Transport Through Balanced Subflow Completion by Yihua Guo, Ashkan Nikravesh, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, and Subhabrata Sen, Proceedings of Mobicom 2017.


• Towards Secure and Safe Appified Automated Vehicle by Yunhan Jack Jia, Ding Zhao, Qi Alfred Chen, Z. Morley Mao Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Intelligent Vechile Symposium (IVS'17) 2017.


• Push or Request: An Investigation of HTTP/2 Server Push for Improving Mobile Performance by Sanae Rosen, Bo Han, Shuai Hao, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, Proceedings of WWW 2017.


• ContexIoT: Towards Providing Contextual Integrity to Appified IoT Platforms by Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Shiqi Wang, Amir Rahmati, Earlence Fernandes, Z. Morley Mao, and Atul Prakash, Proceedings of NDSS 2017.


• Open Doors for Bob and Mallory: Open Port Usage in Android Apps and Security Implications by Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Yikai Lin, Chao Kong, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of The 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P'17) 2017.


• Production as a Service: A Centralized Framework for Small Batch Manufacturing by Efe C. Balta, Kshitij Jain, Yikai Lin, Dawn Tilbury, Kira Barton, Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of 13th Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2017.


• Categorization of Anomalies in Smart Manufacturing Systems to Support the Selection of Detection Mechanisms, by Felipe Lopez, Miguel Saez, Yuru Shao, Efe C. Balta, James R. Moyne, Z. Morley Mao, Kira Barton, Dawn M. Tilbury, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2(4): 1885-1892 (2017).



2016

• Understanding On-device Bufferbloat for Cellular Upload by Yihua Guo, Feng Qian, Qi Alfred Chen, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, Proceedings of IMC 2016.


• The Misuse of Android Unix Domain Sockets and Security Implications by Yuru Shao, Jason Ott, Yunhan Jack Jia, Zhiyun Qian, Z. Morley Mao Proceedings of CCS 2016.


• An In-depth Understanding of Multipath TCP on Mobile Devices: Measurement and System Design by Ashkan Nikravesh, Yihua Guo, Feng Qian, Z. Morley Mao, and Subhabrata Sen, Proceedings of Mobicom 2016.


• Production as a Service: Optimizing Utilization in Manufacturing Systems by Matthew Porter, Vikram Raghavan, Yikai Lin, Z. Morley Mao, Kira Barton, Dawn Tilbury, Proceedings of Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) 2016.


• Diagnosing Mobile Apps' Quality of Experience: Challenges and Promising Directions by Z. Morley Mao, IEEE Internet Computing (Volume:20, Issue: 1) 2016.


• MitM Attack by Name Collision: Cause Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment in the New gTLD Era by Qi Alfred Chen, Eric Osterweil, Matthew Thomas, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2016.


• Kratos: Discovering Inconsistent Security Policy Enforcement in the Android Framework by Yuru (Roy) Shao, Jason Ott, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhiyun Qian, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2016.


• Android UI Deception Revisited: Attacks and Defenses by Earlence Fernandes, Qi Alfred Chen, Justin Paupore, Georg Essl, J. Alex Halderman, Z. Morley Mao, and Atul Prakash, Proceedings of International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) 2016.


• Incremental Deployment of SDN in Hybrid Enterprise and ISP Networks by David Ke Hong, Yadi Ma, Sujata Banerjee, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) 2016.



2015

• Revisiting Network Energy Efficiency of Mobile Apps: Performance in the Wild by Sanae Rosen, Ashkan Nikravesh, Yihua Guo, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, Shubho Sen, Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2015.(PDF)


• Static Detection of Packet Injection Vulnerabilities -- A Case for Identifying Attacker-controlled Implicit Information Leaks by Qi Alfred Chen, Zhiyun Qian, Yunhan Jack Jia, Yuru Roy Shao, Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2015.(PDF)


• Performance Characterization and Call Reliability Problem Diagnosis for Voice over LTE by Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Z.Morley Mao, Jie Hui, Kranthi Sontineni, Alex Yoon, Samson Kwong, Kevin Lau, Proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2015.(PDF)


• SAMPLES: Self Adaptive Mining of Persistent Lexical Snippets for Classifying Mobile Application Traffic by Hongyi Yao, Gyan Ranjan, Alok Tongaonkar, Yong Liao, Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2015.(PDF)


• Mobilyzer: An Open Platform for Controllable Mobile Network Measurements by Ashkan Nikravesh, Hongyi Yao, Shichang Xu, David Choffnes, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of MobiSys 2015.(PDF)


• Accelerating Mobile Applications through Flip-Flop Replication by Mark Gordon, David Ke Hong, Peter Chen, Jason Flinn, Scott Mahlke, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of MobiSys 2015.(PDF) Best paper award.


• TANGO: Accelerating Mobile Applications through Flip-Flop Replication by Mark S. Gordon, David Ke Hong, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Scott Mahlke, Z. Morley Mao, GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, Volume 19, Issue 3, July 2015.(PDF)


• Summary report for the First NSF Workshop on Mobile Community Measurement Infrastructure by david choffnes and Z. Morley Mao, GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, Volume 19, Issue 3, July 2015.(PDF)


• High-Speed and Memory-Efficient Forwarding Engine for Future Internet Architecture by Mehrdad Moradi, Feng Qian, Qiang Xu, Z. Morley Mao, Darrell Bethea, and Michael Reiter, Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS) 2015.(PDF)


• Automatic Generation of Mobile App Signatures from Traffic Observations by Qiang Xu, Yong Liao, Stanislav Miskovic, Mario Baldi, Z. Morley Mao, Antonio Nucci, and Thomas Andrews, Proceedings of INFOCOM 2015.(PDF)


• Performance and Energy Consumption Analysis of a Delay-Tolerant Network for Censorship-Resistant Communications by Yue Liu, David Bild, David Adrian, Gulshan Singh, Robert Dick, Dan Wallach, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc 2015.(PDF)


• Aggregate Characterization of User Behavior in Twitter and Analysis of the Retweet Graph by David R. Bild, Yue Liu, Robert P. Dick, Z. Morley Mao, and Dan S. Wallach, ACM TOIT (Transactions on Internet Technology) 2015.(PDF)


• The Mason Test: A Defense Against Sybil Attacks in Wireless Networks Without Trusted Authorities by Yue Liu, David R. Bild, Robert P. Dick, Z. Morley Mao, and Dan S. Wallach, TMC (IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing) 2015.(PDF)



2014

• MCNet: Crowdsourcing wireless performance measurements through the eyes of mobile devices. by Sanae Rosen, Sung-Ju Lee, Jeongkeun Lee, Paul Congdon, Z. Morley Mao, and Ken Burden, 2014 IEEE Communications Magazine, p86-91, 2014.


• MobilityFirst: A Mobility-Centric and Trustworthy Internet Architecture by A. Venkataramani, J. Kurose, D. Raychaudhuri, K. Nagaraja, M. Mao, S. Banerjee, Proceedings of CCR July 2014.(PDF)


• SoftMoW: A Dynamic and Scalable Software Defined Architecture for Cellular WANs by Mehrdad Moradi, Wenfei Wu, Li Erran Li and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of CoNEXT 2014.(PDF)


• QoE Doctor: Diagnosing Mobile App QoE with Automated UI Control and Cross-layer Analysis by Qi Alfred Chen, Haokun Luo, Sanae Rosen, Z. Morley Mao, Karthik Iyer, Jie Hui, Kranthi Sontineni, Kevin Lau, Proceedings of IMC 2014.(PDF)


• Distributing Mobile Music Applications for Audience Participation Using Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) by Sang Won Lee, Georg Essl, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of 14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2014.


• Demo: Mapping global mobile performance trends with Mobilyzer and MobiPerf by Sanae Rosen, Hongyi Yao, Ashkan Nikravesh, Yunhan Jia, David Choffnes, Z. Morley Mao, MobiSys 2014.


• Discovering Fine-grained RRC State Dynamics and Performance Impacts in Cellular Networks by Sanae Rosen, Haokun Luo, Qi Alfred Chen, Z. Morley Mao, Jie Hui, Aaron Drake, and Kevin Lau, Proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2014.(PDF)


• Peeking into Your App without Actually Seeing it: UI State Inference and Novel Android Attacks by Qi Alfred Chen, Zhiyun Qian, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Usenix Security Symposium 2014.(PDF)


• SoftMoW: A Dynamic and Scalable Software Defined Architecture for Cellular WANs by Mehrdad Moradi, Li Li, and Z. Morley Mao, Open Networking Summit (Research Track) 2014.(PDF)


• FLOWR: A Self-Learning System for Classifying Mobile Application Traffic by Qiang Xu, Thomas Andrews, Yong Liao, Stanislav Miskovic, Z. Morley Mao, Mario Baldi and Antonio Nucci, Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2014 (POSTER).


• RadioProphet: Intelligent Radio Resource Deallocation for Cellular Networks by Junxian Huang, Feng Qian, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2014.(PDF)


• Mobile Network Performance from User Devices: A Longitudinal, Multidimensional Analysis by Ashkan Nikravesh, David R. Choffnes, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Z. Morley Mao, and Matt Welsh, Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2014.(PDF)


• Diagnosing Path Inflation of Mobile Client Traffic by Kyriakos Zarifis, Tobias Flach, Srikanth Nori, David Choffnes, Ramesh Govindan, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Z. Morley Mao, and Matt Welsh, Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2014.(PDF)



2013

• Performance and Power Characterization of Cellular Networks and Mobile Application Optimizations by Junxian Huang, Ph.D. thesis. (PDF)


• Optimizing Mobile Application Performance through Network Infrastructure Aware Adaptations by Qiang Xu, Ph.D. thesis. (PDF)


• Panappticon: Event-based Tracing to Optimize Mobile Application and Platform Performance by Lide Zhang, David R. Bild, Robert P. Dick, Z. Morley Mao and Peter Dinda, Proceedings of (IEEE) CODES+ISSS 2013. (PDF)


• An In-depth Study of LTE: Effect of Network Protocol and Application Behavior on Performance by Junxian Huang, Feng Qian, Yihua Guo, Yuanyuan Zhou, Qiang Xu, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2013.(PDF)


• SocialWatch: Detection of Online Service Abuse via Large-Scale Social Graphs by Junxian Huang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Martin Abadi, Eliot Gillum and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ACM AsiaCCS 2013.(PDF)


• How to Reduce Smartphone Traffic Volume by 30%? by Feng Qian, Junxian Huang, Jeffrey Erman, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of PAM 2013.(PDF)


• AppProfiler: A Flexible Method of Exposing Privacy-Related Behavior in Android Applications to End Users by Sanae Rosen, Zhiyun Qian, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ACM CODASPY 2013.(PDF)


• PROTEUS: Network Performance Forecast for Real-Time, Interactive Mobile Applications by Qiang Xu, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Z. Morley Mao, and Jin Li, Proceedings of Mobisys 2013.(PDF)



2012

• Characterization and Optimization of Resource Utilization For Cellular Networks by Feng Qian, Ph.D. thesis. (PDF)


• Discover, Analyze, and Validate Attacks With Introspective Side Channels by Zhiyun Qian, Ph.D. thesis. (PDF)


• COMET: Code Offload by Migrating Execution Transparently by Mark S. Gordon, D. Anoushe Jamshidi, Scott Mahlke, Z. Morley Mao and Xu Chen, Proceedings of OSDI 2012.(PDF)


• Screen-Off Traffic Characterization and Optimization in 3G/4G Networks by Junxian Huang, Feng Qian, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of IMC 2012.(PDF)


• Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Personalized Production by Janani Viswanathan, Dawn Tilbury, Jack Hu, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ISFA Conference 2012.(PDF)


• Toward software-defined cellular networks by Li Erran Li, Z. Morley Mao, and Jennifer Rexford, Proceedings of European Workshop on Software Defined Networking 2012.(PDF)


• ADEL: An Automatic Detector of Energy Leaks for Smartphone Applications by Lide Zhang, Mark Gordon, Robert Dick, Z. Morley Mao, Peter Dinda and Lei Yang, Proceedings of (IEEE) CODES+ISSS 2012.(PDF)


• Collaborated Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack --- How to Crack Sequence Number Under A Second by Zhiyun Qian, Z. Morley Mao and Yinglian Xie, Proceedings of CCS 2012.(PDF)


• Innocent by Association: Early Recognition of Legitimate Users by Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Martin Abadi, Eliot Gillum, Krish Vitaldevaria, Jason Walter, Junxian Huang and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of CCS 2012.(PDF)


• Web Caching on Smartphones: Ideal vs. Reality by Feng Qian, Kee Shen Quah, Junxian Huang, Jeffrey Erman, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of ACM Mobisys 2012.(PDF)


• A Close Examination of Performance and Power Characteristics of 4G LTE Networks by Junxian Huang, Feng Qian, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of ACM Mobisys 2012.(PDF)


• Periodic Transfers in Mobile Applications: Network-wide Origin, Impact, and Optimization by Feng Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Yudong Gao, Junxian Huang, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of WWW 2012.(PDF)


• Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack -- How Firewall Middleboxes Reduce Security by Zhiyun Qian and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2012.(PDF) (Project web page)


• You Can Run, but You Can't Hide: Exposing Network Location for Targeted DoS Attacks in Cellular Networks by Zhiyun Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Qiang Xu, Z. Morley Mao, Ming Zhang and Yi-Min Wang, Proceedings of NDSS 2012.(PDF)



2011

• Using Predictable Mobility Patterns to Support Scalable and Secure MANETs of Handheld Devices by David Bild, Yue Liu, Robert Dick, Z. Morley Mao and Dan Wallach, Proceedings of The 6th ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch) 2011.(PDF)


• Contrail: Enabling Decentralized Social Networks on Smartphones by Patrick Stuedi, Iqbal Mohomed, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ted Wobber, Doug Terry and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Middleware 2011.(PDF) Best paper award.


• Identifying Diverse Usage Behaviors of Smartphone Apps by Qiang Xu, Jeffrey Erman, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Jeffrey Pang, and Shobha Venkataraman, Proceedings of IMC 2011.(PDF)


• Designing Scalable and Effective Decision Support for Mitigating Attacks in Large Enterprise Networks by Zhiyun Qian, Z. Morley Mao, Ammar Rayes and David Jaffe, Proceedings of SecureComm 2011.(PDF)


• An Untold Story of Middleboxes in Cellular Networks by Zhaoguang Wang, Zhiyun Qian, Qiang Xu, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, and Ming Zhang, Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2011.(PDF) (In the news: MIT Technology Review coverage and Slashdot coverage, cnet news coverage)


• Demo: Mobile Application Resource Optimizer (ARO) by Feng Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of Mobisys 2011.(PDF)


• AccuLoc: Practical Localization of Performance Measurements in 3G Networks by Qiang Xu, Alex Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, and Jeff Pang, Proceedings of Mobisys 2011.(PDF)


• Profiling Resource Usage for Mobile Applications: a Cross-layer Approach by Feng Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Alex Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck Proceedings of Mobisys 2011.(PDF)


• KnowOps: Towards an Embedded Knowledge Base for Network Management and Operations by Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Z. Morley Mao, and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Proceedings of The first Hot-ICE workshop 2011.(PDF)


• Internet Censorship in China: Where Does the Filtering Occur? by Xueyang Xu, Z. Morley Mao, and J. Alex Halderman, Proceedings of PAM 2011.(PDF)


• Can Deterministic Replay be an Enabling Tool for Mobile Computing? by Jason Flinn and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of HotMobile 2011.(PDF)


• Cellular Data Network Infrastructure Characterization and Implication on Mobile Content Placement by Qiang Xu, Junxian Huang, Zhaoguang Wang, Feng Qian, Alexandre Gerber, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2011.(PDF)



2010

• Toward Automated Network Management and Operations by Xu Simon Chen, Ph.D. thesis. (PDF)


• Location, Location, Location!: Modeling Data Proximity in the Cloud by Birjodh Tiwana, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos Aguilera, Hitesh Ballani, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of HotNets 2010.(PDF)


• Declarative Configuration Management for Complex and Dynamic Networks by Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Z. Morley Mao, and Kobus van der Merwe, Proceedings of CoNext 2010.(PDF)


• Characterizing Radio Resource Allocation for 3G Networks by Feng Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Alex Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of IMC 2010.(PDF)


• TOP: Tail Optimization Protocol for Cellular Radio Resource Allocation by Feng Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Alex Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck, Proceedings of ICNP 2010.(PDF)


• iSPY: Detecting IP Prefix Hijacking on My Own by Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Randy Bush, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), Dec. 2010.


• Accurate Online Power Estimation and Automatic Battery Behavior Based Power Model Generation for Smartphones by Lide Zhang, Birjodh Tiwana, Zhiyun Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Robert Dick, Z. Morley Mao and Lei Yang, Proceedings of (IEEE) CODES+ISSS 2010.(PDF)


• Performance and Power Modeling in a Multi-Programmed Multi-Core Environment by Xi Chen, Chi Xu, Robert Dick, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2010.(PDF)


• Anatomizing Application Performance Differences on Smartphones by Junxian Huang, Qiang Xu, Birjodh Tiwana, Z. Morley Mao, Ming Zhang, Paramvir Bahl, Proceedings of Mobisys 2010.(PDF)


• A Case for Unsupervised-Learning-based Spam Filtering by Feng Qian, Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Yinglian Xie, Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2010 (Extended Abstract).(PDF)


• Cache Contention and Application Performance Prediction for Multi-Core Systems by Chi Xu, Xi Chen, Robert P. Dick, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ISPASS 2010.(PDF)


• Investigation of Triangular Spamming: a Stealthy and Efficient Spamming Technique by Zhiyun Qian, Z. Morley Mao, Yinglian Xie, and Fang Yu, Proceedings of IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2010.(PDF)


• On Network-level Clusters for Spam Detection by Zhiyun Qian, Z. Morley Mao, Yinglian Xie, and Fang Yu, Proceedings of 17th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2010.(PDF)


• On the Safety of Enterprise Policy Deployment by Yudong Gao, Xu Chen, Ni Pan, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of 17th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2010.(PDF)

2009

• Effective Wide-Area Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnosis from End Systems by Ying Zhang, Ph.D. thesis. (PDF)


• PACMAN: a Platform for Automated and Controlled network operations and configuration MANagement by Xu Chen, Z. Morley Mao, and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Proceedings of CoNext 2009. (PDF)


• TCP Revisited: A Fresh Look at TCP in the Wild by Feng Qian, Alex Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, and Walter Willinger, Proceedings of IMC 2009. (PDF)


• Detecting Traffic Differentiation in Backbone ISPs with NetPolice by Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Ming Zhang, Proceedings of IMC 2009.(PDF)


• Ensemble: Community-based Anomaly Detection for Popular Applications by Feng Qian, Zhiyun Qian, Z. Morley Mao, and Atul Prakash, Proceedings of SecureComm 2009.(PDF)


• DECOR: DEClarative network management and OpeRation by Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Z. Morley Mao, and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Proceedings of PRESTO Workshop 2009.(PDF) (fast-tracked to CCR)


• ShadowNet: A Platform for Rapid and Safe Network Evolution by Xu Chen, Z. Morley Mao, and Kobus van der Merwe, Proceedings of Usenix Technical Conference 2009.(PDF)


• Botnet Spam Campaigns can be Long Lasting: Evidence, Implications, and Analysis by Abhinav Pathak, Feng Qian, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Supranamaya Ranjan, Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2009.(PDF)


• HC-BGP: A Light-weight and Flexible Scheme for Securing Prefix Ownership by Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Z. Morley Mao and Y. Charlie Hu, Proceedings of DSN-DCCS 2009.(PDF)

2008

Routing analysis, network security and management:

• WebBee: A Platform for Secure Mobile Coordination and Communication in Crisis Scenarios by Sugih Jamin, Z. Morley Mao, T. V. Lakshman, Sarit Mukherjee, Jignesh Patel, and Limin Wang et al. , STSC CrossTalk Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Oct 2008. (link)


• Ascertaining the Reality of Network Neutrality Violation in Backbone ISPs by Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Ming Zhang, Proceedings of HotNets 2008.(PDF)


• Automating Network Application Dependency Discovery: Experiences, Limitations, and New Solutions by Xu Chen, Ming Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Victor Bahl, Proceedings of OSDI 2008.(PDF)


• iSPY: Detecting IP Prefix Hijacking on My Own by Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y Charlie Hu, Z Morley Mao, and Randy Bush, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2008.(PDF)


• Peeking into Spammer Behavior from a Unique Vantage Point by Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of the First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) 2008.(PDF)


• Deterring Malware by Imitating Emulation and Debugging Environment by Xu Chen, Jon Andersen, Z. Morley Mao, Michael Bailey, Jose Nazario, and Farnam Jahanian, Proceedings of DSN-DCCS 2008.(PDF)


• A Measurement Study of Internet Delay Asymmetry by Abhinav Pathak, Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2008.(PDF)


• Effective Diagnosis of Routing Disruptions from End Systems by Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao and Ming Zhang, Proceedings of NSDI 2008.(PDF)


• Wide-Area IP Network Mobility by Xin Hu, Li Li, Z. Morley Mao, and Yang Richard Yang, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008.(PDF)


• Internet traffic and multiresolution analysis by Ying Zhang, Zihui Ge, Suhas Diggavi, Z. Morley Mao, Matthew Roughan, Vinay Vaishampayan, Walter Willinger, and Yin Zhang, Markov Processes and Related Fields: A Festschrift in Honor of Thomas G. Kurtz/, S. N. Ethier, J. Feng and R. H. Stockbridge (eds.), IMS Lecture Notes--Monograph Series.(PDF)

2007

• Practical Defenses Against BGP Prefix Hijacking by Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of CoNext 2007.(PDF)


• Internet Routing Resilience to Failures: Analysis and Implications by Jian Wu and Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Kang Shin, Proceedings of CoNext 2007.(PDF)


• On the Impact of Route Monitor Selection by Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Y. Charlie Hu, and Bruce Maggs, Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2007.(PDF)


• Automated Classification and Analysis of Internet Malware by Michael Bailey, Jon Oberheide, Jon Andersen, Z. Morley Mao, Farnam Jahanian, and Jose Nazario, Proceedings of RAID 2007.(PDF)


• Towards Automated Network Management: Network Operations using Dynamic Views by Xu Chen, Z. Morley Mao, and Kobus van der Merwe, Proceedings of SIGCOMM INM workshop 2007.(PDF)


• MIDAS: An Impact Scale for DDoS attacks by Ranga Vasudevan, Z. Morley Mao, Oliver Spatscheck, Kobus Van der Merwe, Proceedings of LANMAN 2007 (15th Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks).(PDF)


• Characterizing Dark DNS Behavior by Jon Oberheide, Manish Karir and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of DIMVA 2007.(PDF)


• A Firewall for Routers: Protecting Against Routing Misbehavior by Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Jia Wang, Proceedings of DSN-DCCS 2007.(PDF)


• Understanding Network Delay Changes Caused by Routing Events by Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Y. Charlie Hu, Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2007.(PDF)


• Accurate Real-time Identification of IP Prefix Hijacking by Xin Hu and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2007.(PDF)


• A Framework for Measuring and Predicting Impact of Routing Changes by Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Jia Wang, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2007. (PDF)


• Low-Rate TCP-Targeted DoS Attacks Disrupts Internet Routing by Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Jia Wang, Proceedings of 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2007.(PDF)

2006

• Tussle in Routing: Who Determines Internet Paths? by Z. Morley Mao. Invited paper, Workshop on Internet Routing Evolution and Design (WIRED), 2006 (PDF)


• On the Impact of Research Network Based Testbeds on Wide-area Experiments by Himabindu Pucha, Y. Charlie Hu, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2006. (paper [PDF])



• Internet-scale Malware Mitigation: Combining Intelligence of the Control and Data Plane by Ying Zhang, Evan Cooke, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of WORM 2006. (paper [PDF])


• Differentiated BGP Update Processing for Improved Routing Convergence by Wei Sun, Z. Morley Mao, and Kang Shin, Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2006. (paper [PDF])


• Analyzing Large DDoS Attacks using Multiple Data Sources, by Z. Morley Mao, Vyas Sekar, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus van der Merwe, Rangarajan Vasudevan, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Large-Scale Attack Defense (LSAD) 2006. (paper [PDF])


• A Measurement Study on the Impact of Routing Events on End-to-End Internet Path Performance, by Feng Wang, Z. Morley Mao, Jia Wang, Lixin Gao, and Randy Bush, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2006. (paper [PDF])


• Reval: A Tool for Real-time Evaluation of DDoS Mitigation Strategies, by Ranga Vasudevan, Z. Morley Mao, Oliver Spatscheck, Kobus Van der Merwe, Proceedings of Usenix Technical Conference 2006. (paper [PDF])


• Hotspots: The Root Causes of Non-Uniformity in Self-Propagating Malware, by Evan Cooke, Z. Morley Mao, Farnam Jahanian, Proceedings of DSN 2006. (paper [PDF])


• Is BGP Update Storm a Sign of Trouble: Observing the Internet Control and Data Planes During Internet Worms, by Matthew Roughan, Jun Li, Randy Bush, Z. Morley Mao and Timothy Griffin, Proceedings of SPECTS 2006. (paper [PDF])


• Watching Data Streams Toward a Multi-Homed Sink Under Routing Changes Introduced by a BGP Beacon, by Jun Li, Randy Bush, Z. Mao, Tim Griffin, Matt Roughan, Dan Stutzbach, and E. Purpus, Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2006. (paper [PDF])

2005

• Guest editorial - Interdomain routing and the border gateway protocol by Olivier Bonaventure, A. Feldmann, L. Gao, T. Griffin, Z. M. Mao, IEEE Network 19(6): 3-4 (2005).


• An Empirical Approach to Modeling Inter-AS Traffic Matrices, by H. Chang, S. Jamin, Z. Mao, and W. Willinger, Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2005.(paper [PDF])


• HLP: A Next-generation Interdomain Routing Protocol, by Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Matthew Caesar, Cheng Tien Ee, Mark Handley, Z. Morley Mao, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005 (paper [PDF])


• Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Pinpointing Significant BGP Routing Changes in an IP Network, by Jian Wu, Z. Morley Mao, Jennifer Rexford, and Jia Wang, Proceedings of 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, May 2005. (talk [PDF], [PPT], paper [PDF])


• On AS-Level Path Inference by Z. Morley Mao, Lili Qiu, Jia Wang, and Yin Zhang, Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Banff, Canada, June 2005. (paper [PDF])


• Enriching intrusion alerts through multi-host causality by Samuel T. King, Z. Morley Mao, Dominic G. Lucchetti, and Peter M. Chen, Proceedings of the 2005 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2005. (paper [PDF])


• A Measurement Study of Internet Bottlenecks by Ningning Hu, Li Li, Z. Morley Mao, Peter Steenkiste, and Jia Wang, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005 (paper [PDF])

2004

• Towards a Next Generation Inter-domain Routing Protocol by Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Matthew Caesar, Cheng Tien Ee (UC Berkeley), Mark Handley (University College, London), Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley and ICSI), and Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley), Proceedings of HotNets 2004 (paper [PDF])


• BorderGuard: Detecting Cold Potatoes from Peers by N. Feamster, Z. Mao, and J. Rexford, Proc. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 2004 (PDF).


• Toward Understanding Distributed Blackhole Placement by Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, Z. Morley Mao, David Watson, Farnam Jahanian and Danny McPherson, Proceedings of WORM 2004 (paper [PDF])


• Combining Routing and Traffic Data for Detection of IP Forwarding Anomalies by Matthew Roughan, Tim Griffin, Z. Morley Mao, Albert Greenberg, and Brian Freeman, Poster paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2004 (full version [PDF])(talk PDF)

Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM NeTs Workshop, Portland, OR, August 2004

• Locating Internet Bottlenecks: Algorithms, Measurements, and Implications by Ningning Hu, Li Li, Z. Morley Mao, Peter Steenkiste, and Jia Wang, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Portland, OR, August 2004 (PS) Project info


• Locating Internet Routing Instabilities by Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel, Z. Morley Mao, Arthur Berger, Bruce Maggs, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Portland, OR, August 2004 (PS)



Routing at various layers:

• Scalable and accurate identification of AS-level forwarding paths by Z. Morley Mao, David Johnson, Jennifer Rexford, Jia Wang, and Randy H. Katz, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, March 2004. (PDF)

2003

• BGP Beacons by Z. Morley Mao, Randy Bush, Tim Griffin, and Matt Roughan, Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2003.(PDF)


• Towards an Accurate AS-Level Traceroute Tool by Z. Morley Mao, Jennifer Rexford, Jia Wang, and Randy Katz, ACM SIGCOMM 2003.(PDF) software


• Interdomain Routing Streams by Timothy G. Griffin and Z. Morley Mao, Workshop on Management and Processing of Data Streams 2003.(PDF)


• Efficient and Robust Streaming Provisioning in VPNs by Z. Morley Mao, David Johnson, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus Van der Merwe, and Jia Wang. World Wide Web Conference 2003.(ps.gz)(PDF)(Conference presentation: PDF)


• Routing Research Issues by Z. Morley Mao. Invited paper, Workshop on Internet Routing Evolution and Design (WIRED), 2003 (PDF)

  2002 and earlier

• Route Flap Damping Exacerbates Internet Routing Convergence by Z. Morley Mao, Ramesh Govindan, George Varghese, and Randy Katz. ACM SIGCOMM 2002.(PS) (PDF)


• A Precise and Efficient Evaluation of the Proximity between Web Clients and their Local DNS Servers, by Z. Morley Mao, Charles Cranor, Fred Douglis, Michael Rabinovich, Oliver Spatscheck, and Jia Wang,USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2002.(PS)(PDF) (Invited talk at HP Labs PPT) (Conference presentation: PPT)



Automatic Service Composition:

• Achieving Service Portability using Self-adaptive Data Paths, by Z. Morley Mao, Randy H. Katz, IEEE Communications Magazine special Issue on Service Portability and Virtual Home Environment, January 2002.(PDF)


• A Framework for Universal Service Access Using Device Ensemble by Z. Morley Mao, and Randy Katz. (Young Investigator Award) Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002.(PS) (PDF)


• Network Support for Mobile Multimedia using a Self-adaptive Distributed Proxy, by Z. Morley Mao, H. Wilson So, ByungHoon Kang, and Randy H. Katz, 11th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV-2001).(PS) (PDF).


• Achieving Service Portability in ICEBERG, by Z. Morley Mao and Randy H. Katz, IEEE GlobeCom 2000, Workshop on Service Portability (SerP-2000).(PS) (PDF)


• Fault-tolerant, Scalable, Wide-Area Internet Service Composition, by Z. Morley Mao and Eric A. Brewer and Randy H. Katz, U.C. Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-01-1129, Jan 2001. (PS.GZ, archive)



SAHARA, ICEBERG, Ninja Group Project Papers

• The SAHARA Model for Service Composition Across Multiple Providers, by B. Raman, S. Agarwal, Y. Chen, M. Caesar, W. Cui, P. Johansson, K. Lai, T. Lavian, S. Machiraju, Z. M. Mao, G. Porter, T. Roscoe, M. Seshadri, J. Shih, K. Sklower, L. Subramanian, T. Suzuki, S. Zhuang, A. D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Ion Stoica, Proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing, August 26-28, 2002. (PS)(PDF)


• The Ninja Architecture for Robust Internet-Scale Systems and Services, by Steven D. Gribble, Matt Welsh, Rob von Behren, Eric A. Brewer, David Culler, N. Borisov, S. Czerwinski, R. Gummadi, J. Hill, A. Joseph, R.H. Katz, Z. Mao, S. Ross, and B. Zhao.(Best Journal Paper Award for the Year 2001), Special Issue of Computer Networks on Pervasive Computing, Volume 35, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 473-497. (PS)((PDF).


• ICEBERG: An Internet-core Network Architecture for Integrated Communications, H. J. Wang, B. Raman, C-N. Chuah, R. Biswas, R. Gummadi, B. Hohlt, X. Hong, E. Kiciman, Z. Mao, J. S. Shih, L. Subramanian, B. Y. Zhao, A. D. Joseph, and R. H. Katz, IEEE Personal Communications Special Issue on IP-based Mobile Telecommunications Networks, August 2000. (PDF, 2.2 MB) (PS.GZ)