Googling the Internet and beyond

Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, EECS Department, Northwestern University
MIT CSAIL seminar

This was a breadth talk, covering several topics:
- TCP congestion control - removing exponential back-off - paper on ACM CCR 2008;
- DoS against streaming CDN (e.g. Akamai) - how to attack a CDN network, how to leverage a CDN network knowledge of network topology to make better routing decisions - paper on IEEE ICDCS 2008, and Usenix/ACM IMC 2008;
- Googling the Internet - an interesting approach to profiling internet usage by querying google about IP addresses - paper "unconstrained endpoint profiling" on ACM SIGCOMM 2008
- IDNet mesh - identity validation credentials - work in progress

Very lively talk, with some interesting research.