Network defenses based on traditional tools, techniques, and procedures (TTP) fail to
account for the attacker's inherent advantage present due to the static nature of network …

In recent years, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a pivotal element not
only in data-centers and wide-area networks, but also in next generation networking …

When network is undergoing problems such as congestion, scan attack, DDoS attack, etc.,
measurements are much more important than usual. In this case, traffic characteristics …

Middleboxes or network appliances like firewalls, proxies, and WAN optimizers have
become an integral part of today's ISP and enterprise networks. Middlebox functionalities …

The study of network topology has attracted a great deal of attention in the last decade, but
has been hampered by a lack of accurate data. Existing methods for measuring topology …

Networks today rely on middleboxes to provide critical performance, security, and policy
compliance capabilities. Achieving these benefits and ensuring that the traffic is directed …

Traditional Traffic Engineering (TE) solutions can achieve the optimal or near-optimal
performance by rerouting as many flows as possible. However, they do not usually consider …

Past studies show that middleboxes are a critical piece of network infrastructure for providing
security and performance guarantees. Unfortunately, the dynamic and traffic-dependent …

Traditional routing algorithms cannot dynamically change network environments due to the
limited information for routing decisions. Meanwhile, they are prone to performance …

Network deployments handle changing application, workload, and policy requirements via
the deployment of specialized network appliances or “middleboxes”. Today, however …