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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]
Absence makes the heart grow fonder: New directions for implantable medical device security.
Tamara Denning, Kevin Fu, and Tadayoshi Kohno. In Proceedings of USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), July 2008. to appear.
Keywords: security; IMD; [bibtex]
Enabling Interactive Applications in Hybrid Networks.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine, and Arun Venkataramani. In Proc. ACM Mobicom, September 2008.
Keywords: wireless; DTN; information retrieval; [bibtex]
Relays, Base Stations, and Meshes: Enhancing Mobile Networks with Infrastructure.
Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, Don Towsley, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proceedings of ACM Mobicom, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2008.
Keywords: Wireless; DTN; [bibtex] [PDF]
SEVA: Sensor Enhanced Video Annotation.
Xiaotao Liu, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), To Appear 2008.
Keywords: Pervasive/UbiComp; RFID; Journal Paper; wireless; [bibtex]
Interactive WiFi Connectivity for Moving Vehicles.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, Brian Neil Levine, and John Zahorjan. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, August 2008.
Keywords: wireless; DTN; [bibtex]
Pacemakers and implantable cardiac deﬁbrillators: Software radio attacks and zero-power defenses.
Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008. Outstanding Paper Award.
Keywords: security; IMD; Award Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [details]
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]
A Survey of Practical Issues in Underwater Networks.
Jim Partan, Jim Kurose, and Brian Neil Levine. Special Issue of ACM Mobile Computing Communications Review, pages 23–33, October 2007.
Keywords: DTN; underwater; wireless; [bibtex]
Anonymizing social networks.
Michael Hay, Gerome Miklau, David Jensen, Philipp Weis, and Siddharth Srivastava. Technical Report 07-19, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 2007.
Keywords: security; anonymity; Tech report; [bibtex] [PDF]
A formal analysis of information disclosure in data exchange.
Gerome Miklau and Dan Suciu. J. Comput. Syst. Sci., 73(3):507–534, 2007.
Keywords: security; database security; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF]
Analyzing privacy in enterprise trace anonymization.
Bruno Ribiero, Weifeng Chen, Gerome Miklau, and Don Towsley. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2008.
Keywords: security; anonymity; ; [bibtex] [PDF]
Security and privacy for implantable medical devices.
Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue on Implantable Electronics, January 2008.
Keywords: security; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract]
Chameleon: Application Level Power Management.
Xiaotao Liu, Prashant Shenoy, and Mark D. Corner. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, To Appear 2008.
Keywords: Power Management; Journal Paper; [bibtex]
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] [slides] [techreport]
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; security; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF]
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 ’07), pages 161–174, Sydney, Australia, November 2007.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; Power Management; Programming Languages; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides]
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; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation] [traces]
Initial SRAM state as a ﬁngerprint and source of true random numbers for RFID tags.
Daniel E. Holcomb, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu. In Proceedings of the Conference on RFID Security, July 2007.
Keywords: RFID; crypto; security; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [conference] [demo]
Maximalist cryptography and computation on the WISP UHF RFID tag.
Hee-Jin Chae, Daniel J. Yeager, Joshua R. Smith, and Kevin Fu. In Proceedings of the Conference on RFID Security, July 2007.
Keywords: RFID; crypto; security; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [conference]
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]
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; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [traces] [acm]
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]
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] [PDF] [slides] [traces]
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; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [traces]
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; [bibtex] [PDF]
Surviving Attacks on Disruption-Tolerant Networks without Authentication.
John Burgess, George Bissias, Mark D. Corner, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. of The ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), pages 61–70, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 2007.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; security; routing; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [traces]
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 ’07), Puerto Rico, June 2007.
Keywords: Power Management; DTN; Operating Systems; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [techreport]
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: security; forensics; database security; [bibtex] [PDF]
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]
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, June 2007.
Keywords: security; [bibtex] [PDF] [poster]
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]
Nonesuch: a mix network with sender unobservability.
Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Andrei Serjantov, and Benessa Defend. In 2006 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. ACM Press, October 2006.
Keywords: anonymity; security; routing; [bibtex]
Cryptanalysis of two lightweight RFID authentication schemes.
Benessa Defend, Kevin Fu, and Ari Juels. In Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security (PerSec) Workshop, March 2007.
Keywords: RFID; crypto; security; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [conference]
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] [slides] [techreport]
Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-enabled Credit Cards.
Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Dan V. Bailey, Kevin Fu, Ari Juels, and Tom OHare. In Proceedings of Eleventh International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Lowlands, Scarborough, Trinidad/Tobago, February 2007.
Keywords: security; RFID; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [techreport] [conference] [demo] [news]
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; security; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF]
Informant: Detecting Sybils Using Incentives.
N. Boris Margolin and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Financial Cryptography (FC), February 2007.
Keywords: Sybil attack; security; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF] [techreport] [presentation]
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; security; [bibtex] [PDF]
Quantifying Resistance to the Sybil Attack.
N. Boris Margolin and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Financial Cryptography (FC), January 2008.
Keywords: Sybil attack; security; peer-to-peer; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF]
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; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation]
Asymptotic conditional probabilities for conjunctive queries.
Nilesh Dalvi, Gerome Miklau, and Dan Suciu. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), January 2005.
Keywords: security; database security; [bibtex] [PDF]
Conﬁdentiality and Integrity in Data Exchange.
Gerome Miklau. PhD thesis, University of Washington, Aug 2005.
Keywords: security; Thesis; database security; [bibtex] [PDF]
Controlling access to published data using cryptography.
Gerome Miklau and Dan Suciu. In Proceedings of the 29th VLDB Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 2003.
Keywords: security; crypto; database security; ; [bibtex] [PDF]
Implementing a tamper-evident database system.
Gerome Miklau and Dan Suciu. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 28–48, Nov 2005.
Keywords: security; database security; ; [bibtex] [PDF]
A formal analysis of information disclosure in data exchange.
Gerome Miklau and Dan Suciu. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 575–586. ACM Press, June 2004.
Keywords: security; database security; [bibtex] [PDF]
Web cookies: Not just a privacy risk.
Emil Sit and Kevin Fu. Communications of the ACM, 44(9), September 2001.
Keywords: security; crypto; [bibtex] [abstract] [html]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Improved proxy re-encryption schemes with applications to secure distributed storage.
Giuseppe Ateniese, Kevin Fu, Matthew Green, and Susan Hohenberger. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS). ISOC, February 2005.
Keywords: security; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract] [conference]
Cheat-Proof Playout for Centralized and Peer-to-Peer Gaming.
Nathaniel E. Baughman, Marc Liberatore, and Brian Neil Levine. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, pages 1–13, February 2007.
Keywords: security; gaming; peer-to-peer; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF]
Revocation of unread email in an untrusted network.
Aviel D. Rubin, Dan Boneh, and Kevin Fu. In Proceedings of Information Security and Privacy, Second Australasian Conference (ACISP), Sydney, Australia, July 1997.
Keywords: security; crypto; [bibtex] [PDF] [code] [ps] [springer]
Approximate message authentication codes.
Richard Graveman and Kevin Fu. Technical report, Bellcore, February 1999. Army Research Labs ATIRP.
Keywords: security; crypto; Tech report; [bibtex] [PDF]
Kevin Fu, Michael Kaminsky, and David Mazi` res. Using SFS for a secure e network ﬁle system. ;login: The Magazine of Usenix & Sage, 27(6):6–16, December .
Keywords: security; Operating Systems; [bibtex] [PDF]
Secure software updates: disappointments and new challenges.
Anthony Bellissimo, John Burgess, and Kevin Fu. In Proceedings of USENIX Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), July 2006.
Keywords: security; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [conference] [video_demo]
Privacy for public transportation.
Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Hee-Jin Chae, Benessa Defend, and Kevin Fu. In Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies workshop (PET 2006), June 2006.
Keywords: security; anonymity; RFID; [bibtex] [PDF] [conference]
Key regression: Enabling efﬁcient key distribution for secure distributed storage.
Kevin Fu, Seny Kamara, and Tadayoshi Kohno. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security, February 2006.
Keywords: security; crypto; Operating Systems; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract]
Improved proxy re-encryption schemes with applications to secure distributed storage.
Giuseppe Ateniese, Kevin Fu, Matthew Green, and Susan Hohenberger. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 9(1), February 2006. An early version appeared in Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (2005).
Keywords: security; crypto; Operating Systems; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract]
Group sharing and random access in cryptographic storage ﬁle systems.
Kevin Fu. Master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1999.
Keywords: security; crypto; Operating Systems; thesis; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [abstract] [ps] [tgz]
Dos and don’ts of client authentication on the web.
Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, and Nick Feamster. Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-818, MIT Lab for Computer Science, May 2001.
Keywords: security; crypto; Tech report; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract]
Kevin Fu, M. Frans Kaashoek, and David Mazi` res. Fast and secure distributed e read-only ﬁle system. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 20(1):1–24, February .
Keywords: security; Operating Systems; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract]
Kevin Fu, M. Frans Kaashoek, and David Mazi` res. Fast and secure distributed e read-only ﬁle system. In Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2000), pages 181–196, San Diego, California, October .
Keywords: security; Operating Systems; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract]
Integrity and access control in untrusted content distribution networks.
Kevin Fu. PhD thesis, MIT, September 2005.
Keywords: security; crypto; Operating Systems; thesis; [bibtex] [PDF]
REX: Secure, Extensible Remote Execution.
Michael Kaminsky, Eric Peterson, Daniel B. Gifﬁn, Kevin Fu, David Mazi` res, e and M. Frans Kaashoek. In Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ’04), pages 199–212, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2004.
Keywords: security; Operating Systems; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract] [conference]
Dos and don’ts of client authentication on the web.
Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, and Nick Feamster. In Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, D.C., August 2001. An extended version is available as MIT-LCS-TR-818 (Best Student Paper Award).
Keywords: security; crypto; Award Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract] [conference] [photos]
A Survey of Practical Issues in Underwater Networks.
Jim 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; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation]
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]
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; anonymity; forensics; [bibtex] [PDF] [traces]
Capacity Enhancement using Throwboxes in DTNs.
Wenrui Zhao, Yang Chen, Mostafa Ammar, Mark D. Corner, Brian Neil Levine, and Ellen Zegura. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), pages 31–40, Oct 2006.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; [bibtex] [PDF] [presentation]
Hierarchical Power Management in Disruption Tolerant Networks with Trafﬁc-Aware Optimization.
Hyewon Jun, Mostafa H. Ammar, Mark D. Corner, and Ellen Zegura. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
Keywords: DTN; wireless; [bibtex] [PDF]
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