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17 papers
I Tag, You Tag, Everybody Tags!
Hazem Ibrahim, Rohail Asim, Matteo Varvello +1
Location tags are designed to track personal belongings. Nevertheless, there has been anecdotal evidence that location tags are also misused to stalk people. Tracking is achieved l…
A Worldwide Look Into Mobile Access Networks Through the Eyes of AmiGos
Matteo Varvello, Yasir Zaki
How does the mobile experience compare between Germany and Nigeria? There is currently no public data or test-bed to provide an answer to this question. This is because deploying a…
BatteryLab: A Collaborative Platform for Power Monitoring
Matteo Varvello, Kleomenis Katevas, Mihai Plesa +3
Advances in cloud computing have simplified the way that both software development and testing are performed. This is not true for battery testing for which state of the art test-b…
POW-HOW: An enduring timing side-channel to evade online malware sandboxes
Antonio Nappa, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Matteo Varvello +3
Online malware scanners are one of the best weapons in the arsenal of cybersecurity companies and researchers. A fundamental part of such systems is the sandbox that provides an in…
Can You See Me Now? A Measurement Study of Zoom, Webex, and Meet
Hyunseok Chang, Matteo Varvello, Fang Hao +1
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, videoconferencing has become the default mode of communication in our daily lives at homes, workplaces and schools, and it is likely to…
To Block or Not to Block: Accelerating Mobile Web Pages On-The-Fly Through JavaScript Classification
Moumena Chaqfeh, Muhammad Haseeb, Waleed Hashmi +6
The increasing complexity of JavaScript in modern mobile web pages has become a critical performance bottleneck for low-end mobile phone users, especially in developing regions. In…
Muzeel: A Dynamic JavaScript Analyzer for Dead Code Elimination in Today's Web
Tofunmi Kupoluyi, Moumena Chaqfeh, Matteo Varvello +3
JavaScript contributes to the increasing complexity of today's web. To support user interactivity and accelerate the development cycle, web developers heavily rely on large general…
Browselite: A Private Data Saving Solution for the Web
Conor Kelton, Matteo Varvello, Andrius Aucinas +1
The median webpage has increased in size by more than 80% in the last 4 years. This extra complexity allows for a rich browsing experience, but it hurts the majority of mobile user…
On the Battery Consumption of Mobile Browsers
Matteo Varvello, Benjamin Livshits
Mobile web browsing has recently surpassed desktop browsing both in term of popularity and traffic. Following its desktop counterpart, the mobile browsers ecosystem has been growin…
A Retrospective Analysis of User Exposure to (Illicit) Cryptocurrency Mining on the Web
Ralph Holz, Diego Perino, Matteo Varvello +6
In late 2017, a sudden proliferation of malicious JavaScript was reported on the Web: browser-based mining exploited the CPU time of website visitors to mine the cryptocurrency Mon…
ZKSENSE: A Friction-less Privacy-Preserving Human Attestation Mechanism for Mobile Devices
Iñigo Querejeta-Azurmendi, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Matteo Varvello +3
Recent studies show that 20.4% of the internet traffic originates from automated agents. To identify and block such ill-intentioned traffic, mechanisms that verify the humanness of…
BatteryLab, A Distributed Power Monitoring Platform For Mobile Devices
Matteo Varvello, Kleomenis Katevas, Mihai Plesa +2
Recent advances in cloud computing have simplified the way that both software development and testing are performed. Unfortunately, this is not true for battery testing for which s…
VPN0: A Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Virtual Private Network
Matteo Varvello, Iñigo Querejeta Azurmendi, Antonio Nappa +3
Distributed Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs) are new VPN solutions aiming to solve the trust-privacy concern of a VPN's central authority by leveraging a distributed architecture.…
The Blind Men and the Internet: Multi-Vantage Point Web Measurements
Jordan Jueckstock, Shaown Sarker, Peter Snyder +4
In this paper, we design and deploy a synchronized multi-vantage point web measurement study to explore the comparability of web measurements across vantage points (VPs). We descri…
EYEORG: A Platform For Crowdsourcing Web Quality Of Experience Measurements
Matteo Varvello, Jeremy Blackburn, David Naylor +1
Tremendous effort has gone into the ongoing battle to make webpages load faster. This effort has culminated in new protocols (QUIC, SPDY, and HTTP/2) as well as novel content deliv…
ProxyTorrent: Untangling the Free HTTP(S) Proxy Ecosystem
Diego Perino, Matteo Varvello, Claudio Soriente
Free web proxies promise anonymity and censorship circumvention at no cost. Several websites publish lists of free proxies organized by country, anonymity level, and performance. T…
To HTTP/2, or Not To HTTP/2, That Is The Question
Matteo Varvello, Kyle Schomp, David Naylor +3
As of February, 2015, HTTP/2, the update to the 16-year-old HTTP 1.1, is officially complete. HTTP/2 aims to improve the Web experience by solving well-known problems (e.g., head o…