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

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]
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