Vyas Sekar
Intel Labs and
Intel Science And Technology Center on Secure Computing at UC Berkeley
Soda Hall 711
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776, USA
T: +1-510-643-8691
E: firstname dot lastname at company dot com
Intel Labs and
Intel Science And Technology Center on Secure Computing at UC Berkeley
Soda Hall 711
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776, USA
T: +1-510-643-8691
E: firstname dot lastname at company dot com
Biography
Vyas Sekar is a Research Scientist at Intel Labs. He is currently a member of the Intel Science and Technology Center on Secure Computing at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, he obtained his B. Tech from the Computer Science Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His research interests lie at the intersection of networking, security, and systems.
Recent Publications
(Complete list of publications)
Measuring and Improving User Confidence in Mobile Phone Security and Privacy
Erika Chin, Adrienne Porter Felt, Vyas Sekar, David Wagner to appear in SOUPS 2012 [pdf]Multi-resource Scheduling for Middleboxes
Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Vyas Sekar, Ion Stoica, to appear in SIGCOMM 2012 [pdf]Making Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network Processing as a Cloud Service
Justine Sherry, Shaddi Hasan, Colin Scott, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Vyas Sekar, to appear in SIGCOMM 2012 [pdf]A Case for a Coordinated Internet-Scale Video Control Plane
Xi Liu, Florin Dobrian, Henry Milner, Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang, to appear in SIGCOMM 2012 [pdf]Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture
Vyas Sekar, Norbert Egi, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael Reiter, Guangyu Shi. to appear in NSDI 2012 [pdf]Program Committees
COMSNETS 2012,
PAM 2012,
CoNEXT 2012,
IMC 2012,
CoNEXT 2012 Student Workshop (co-chair)
IMC 2011,
SIGCOMM Demos/Posters 2011,
ICCCN EEN Track 2011
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2012
Measuring and Improving User Confidence in Mobile Phone Security and Privacy
Erika Chin, Adrienne Porter Felt, Vyas Sekar, David Wagner to appear in SOUPS 2012 [pdf]Multi-resource Scheduling for Middleboxes
to appear in SIGCOMM 2012 [pdf]Making Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network Processing as a Cloud Service
to appear in SIGCOMM 2012 [pdf]A Case for a Coordinated Internet-Scale Video Control Plane
to appear in SIGCOMM 2012 [pdf]Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture
Vyas Sekar, Norbert Egi, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael Reiter, Guangyu Shi. to appear in NSDI 2012 [pdf]2011
The Middlebox Manifesto: Enabling Innovation in Middlebox Deployments
Vyas Sekar, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael Reiter, Norbert Egi, Guangyu Shi. to appear in ACM HotNets 2011 [pdf]Verifiable Resource Accounting for Cloud Computing Services
Vyas Sekar, Petros Maniatis. Proceedings of the ACM Cloud Computing
Security Workshop (CCSW), 2011. [pdf]
Understanding Website Complexity: Measurement,
Metrics, and Implications
Michael Butkiewicz, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Vyas Sekar ACM/USENIX
Internet Measurement Conference 2011 [pdf]
Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on
User Engagement
Florin Dobrian, Vyas Sekar, Asad Awan, Ion
Stoica, Aditya Ganjam, Dilip Joseph, Jibin Zhan, Hui Zhang. ACM
SIGCOMM 2011 [pdf]
2010
Network-Wide Deployment of Intrusion Detection
and Prevention Systems
Vyas Sekar, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy,
Anupam Gupta, and Michael K. Reiter in ACM CoNEXT 2010 [pdf]
A Case for Information-Bound
Referencing
Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Vyas Sekar, and
Srinivasan Seshan, in ACM HotNets 2010 [pdf]
Revisiting the Case for a Minimalist Approach for Network Flow
Monitoring
Vyas Sekar, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang in ACM/USENIX Internet Mearurement Conference 2010
[pdf]
Tracking Semantic Relationships for Effective Data Management in Home Networks
Ashok Anand, Aaron Gember, Vyas Sekar and Aditya Akella
in ACM SIGCOMM HomeNets Workshop 2010 [pdf]
Coordinated Sampling sans
Origin-Destination Identifiers: Algorithms, Analysis, and Evaluation
Vyas Sekar, Anupam Gupta, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang in COMSNETS 2010
[pdf]
2009
Making Peer-Assisted Content Distribution Robust to Collusion Using Bandwidth Puzzles
Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zhenghao Zhang
in ICISS 2009 [pdf]
Inside the Birds Nest: Measurements of Large-Scale Live VoD from the 2008 Olympics
Hao Yin, Xuening Liu, Feng Qiu, Chuang Lin, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang, Geyong Min
in ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2009 [pdf]
Design and Deployment of a Hybrid CDN-P2P System for
Live Video Streaming: Experiences with LiveSky
Hao Yin, Xuening Liu, Tongyu Zhan, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang
in ACM Multimedia 2009 [pdf]
SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination
Ashok Anand, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella
in ACM SIGCOMM 2009 [pdf]
Scalable Long-term Network Forensics for
Epidemic Attacks
Li Ming Chen, Meng Chang Chen, Yeali S. Sun, Mike Hsiao, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang
in IFIP/IEEE N2S 2009
2008
An Empirical Evaluation of Entropy-Based Traffic Anomaly Detection
George Nychis, Vyas Sekar, David G. Andersen, Hyong Kim, Hui Zhang in ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2008
[pdf]
Remote Profiling of
Resource Constraints of Web Servers Using Mini-Flash Crowds
Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander
Krishnamurthy, Anees Shaikh
in USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2008 [pdf]
cSamp: A System for Network-Wide Flow Monitoring
Vyas Sekar,
Michael K. Reiter, Walter Willinger, Hui Zhang, Ramana Rao Kompella, David G.
Andersen in USENIX/ACM Networked System Design and Implementation 2008
(pdf)
2007
Using
Mini-Flash Crowds to Infer Resource Constraints in Remote Web Servers
Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander
Krishnamurthy, Anees Shaikh
in ACM SIGCOMM Worksop on Internet Network Management (INM) 2007 [pdf]
2006
Analyzing Large DDoS Attacks using Multiple Data
Sources,
Z. Morley Mao, Vyas Sekar, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus van
der
Merwe, Rangarajan Vasudevan
in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Large-Scale
Attack Defense
(LSAD) 2006
[pdf]
Forensic
Analysis for Epidemic Attacks in Federated Networks
Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, Michael K. Reiter, Hui Zhang
in IEEE ICNP 2006 [pdf]
A
Multi-Resolution Approach for
Worm Detection and Containment
Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, Michael K. Reiter, Hui Zhang
in IEEE/IFIP DSN 2006 [pdf]
Data
Streaming Algorithms for
Estimating Entropy of Network Traffic
Ashwin Lall, Vyas Sekar, Mitsu Ogihara, Jim Xu, Hui Zhang
in ACM SIGMETRICS 2006 [pdf]
LADS:
Large-scale Automated DDoS
Detection System
Vyas Sekar, Nick Duffield, Kobus van der Merwe, Oliver
Spatscheck, Hui
Zhang
in USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2006 [pdf]
2005
Sparse
Approximations for High
Fidelity Compression of Network Traffic Data
William Aiello, Anna Gilbert, Brian Rexroad, Vyas
Sekar in
ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2005 [pdf]
Worm Origin
Identification Using
Random MoonWalks
Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, David A Maltz, Michael K
Reiter,
Hui Zhang
in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2005 [pdf]
2004
Toward a
Framework for Internet
Forensic Analysis
Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, David A Maltz, Michael K
Reiter,
Hui Zhang
in ACM Hotnets III 2004 [pdf]
2003
Routing for a Single Interface MCN Architecture and
Pricing Schemes for Data Traffic in Multihop Cellular Networks
Vyas Sekar, B. S. Manoj, C. Siva Ram Murthy
in IEEE ICC 2003
Technical Reports
Effective Network Management via System-Wide Coordination and Optimization
Vyas Sekar, Ph.D. Thesis [pdf]
Network-wide Deployment of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Vyas Sekar, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Anupam Gupta, Michael K Reiter,
Technical Report, CMU-CS-10-124 [pdf]
Making Contribution-Aware P2P Systems Robust to Collusion Attacks Using Bandwidth Puzzles
Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zhenghao Zhang
Technical Report, CMU-CS-09-136 [pdf]
A Case for a RISC Architecture for Network Flow Monitoring
Vyas Sekar, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang Technical Report,
CMU-CS-09-125 [pdf]
Coordinated Sampling sans
Origin-Destination Identifiers: Algorithms, Analysis, and Evaluation
Vyas Sekar, Anupam Gupta, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang Technical Report,
CMU-CS-09-104 [pdf]
An Empirical Evaluation of Entropy-Based Traffic Anomaly Detection
George Nychis, Vyas Sekar, David G. Andersen, Hyong Kim, Hui Zhang
Technical Report, CMU-CS-08-145 [pdf]
Coordinated
Sampling: An
Efficient, Network-Wide Approach for Flow Monitoring
Vyas Sekar, Michael K. Reiter, Walter Willinger, Hui Zhang
Technical Report, CMU-CS-07-139 [pdf]
Is Host-Based Anomaly Detection + Temporal Correlation = Worm Causality?
Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, Michael K. Reiter, Hui Zhang
Technical Report,CMU-CS-07-112
[pdf]
Effective Network Management via System-Wide Coordination and Optimization
Vyas Sekar, Ph.D. Thesis [pdf]Network-wide Deployment of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Vyas Sekar, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Anupam Gupta, Michael K Reiter, Technical Report, CMU-CS-10-124 [pdf]Making Contribution-Aware P2P Systems Robust to Collusion Attacks Using Bandwidth Puzzles
Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zhenghao ZhangTechnical Report, CMU-CS-09-136 [pdf]