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20182026
most citedInterest Flooding Attacks in Named Data Networking: Survey of Existing Solutions, Open Issues, Requirements and Future Directions (Extended version)

46 citations · 88 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

cs.CR2026

Adaptive Traffic Camouflage: Causal and Resource-Aware Defense Against IoT Fingerprinting

Daniel Adu Worae, Spyridon Mastorakis, Nuno Moniz +1

Encryption hides IoT payloads, but traffic shape can still reveal device identity through packet sizes, timing, direction, and packetization. We present Adaptive Traffic Camouflage…

cs.CL2025

An LLM-Powered AI Agent Framework for Holistic IoT Traffic Interpretation

Daniel Adu Worae, Spyridon Mastorakis

Internet of Things (IoT) networks generate diverse and high-volume traffic that reflects both normal activity and potential threats. Deriving meaningful insight from such telemetry…

cs.CL2025

SemShareKV: Efficient KVCache Sharing for Semantically Similar Prompts via Token-Level LSH Matching

Xinye Zhao, Spyridon Mastorakis

As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale, the memory footprint of key-value (KV) caches during inference has become a significant bottleneck. Existing approaches primarily…

cs.CL2025

Helping Large Language Models Protect Themselves: An Enhanced Filtering and Summarization System

Sheikh Samit Muhaimin, Spyridon Mastorakis

The recent growth in the use of Large Language Models has made them vulnerable to sophisticated adversarial assaults, manipulative prompts, and encoded malicious inputs. Existing c…

cs.CR2025

I Know What You Did Last Summer: Identifying VR User Activity Through VR Network Traffic

Sheikh Samit Muhaimin, Spyridon Mastorakis

Virtual Reality (VR) technology has gained substantial traction and has the potential to transform a number of industries, including education, entertainment, and professional sect…

cs.NI2024★ 1 cited

A Unified Framework for Context-Aware IoT Management and State-of-the-Art IoT Traffic Anomaly Detection

Daniel Adu Worae, Athar Sheikh, Spyridon Mastorakis

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems has introduced growing complexities in device management and network security. To address these challenges, we present a…

cs.LG2024

FusedInf: Efficient Swapping of DNN Models for On-Demand Serverless Inference Services on the Edge

Sifat Ut Taki, Arthi Padmanabhan, Spyridon Mastorakis

Edge AI computing boxes are a new class of computing devices that are aimed to revolutionize the AI industry. These compact and robust hardware units bring the power of AI processi…

cs.LG2024

UnifiedNN: Efficient Neural Network Training on the Cloud

Sifat Ut Taki, Arthi Padmanabhan, Spyridon Mastorakis

Nowadays, cloud-based services are widely favored over the traditional approach of locally training a Neural Network (NN) model. Oftentimes, a cloud service processes multiple requ…

cs.NI2024

Characterizing Encrypted Application Traffic through Cellular Radio Interface Protocol

Md Ruman Islam, Raja Hasnain Anwar, Spyridon Mastorakis +1

Modern applications are end-to-end encrypted to prevent data from being read or secretly modified. 5G tech nology provides ubiquitous access to these applications without compromis…

cs.LG2024

Amalgam: A Framework for Obfuscated Neural Network Training on the Cloud

Sifat Ut Taki, Spyridon Mastorakis

Training a proprietary Neural Network (NN) model with a proprietary dataset on the cloud comes at the risk of exposing the model architecture and the dataset to the cloud service p…

cs.ET2024

ReStorEdge: An edge computing system with reuse semantics

Adrian-Cristian Nicolaescu, Spyridon Mastorakis, Md Washik Al Azad +2

This paper investigates an edge computing system where requests are processed by a set of replicated edge servers. We investigate a class of applications where similar queries prod…

cs.DC2024

Deduplicator: When Computation Reuse Meets Load Balancing at the Network Edge

Md Washik Al Azad, Spyridon Mastorakis

Load balancing has been a fundamental building block of cloud and, more recently, edge computing environments. At the same time, in edge computing environments, prior research has…

cs.HC2023★ 1 cited

ARWalker: A Virtual Walking Companion Application

Pubudu Wijesooriya, Aaron Likens, Nick Stergiou +1

Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Augmented Reality (AR), have attracted significant attention over the past few years and have been utilized in several fields, includi…

cs.ET2023

A Nonlinear Analysis Software Toolkit for Biomechanical Data

Shifat Sarwar, Aaron Likens, Nick Stergiou +1

In this paper, we present a nonlinear analysis software toolkit, which can help in biomechanical gait data analysis by implementing various nonlinear statistical analysis algorithm…

cs.NI2023★ 1 cited

Rethinking Internet Communication Through LLMs: How Close Are We?

Sifat Ut Taki, Spyridon Mastorakis

In this paper, we rethink the way that communication among users over the Internet, one of the fundamental outcomes of the Internet evolution, takes place. Instead of users communi…

cs.CR2023

DarkHorse: A UDP-based Framework to Improve the Latency of Tor Onion Services

Md Washik Al Azad, Hasniuj Zahan, Sifat Ut Taki +1

Tor is the most popular anonymous communication overlay network which hides clients' identities from servers by passing packets through multiple relays. To provide anonymity to bot…

cs.NI2023★ 1 cited

IoT-AD: A Framework To Detect Anomalies Among Interconnected IoT Devices

Hasniuj Zahan, Md Washik Al Azad, Ihsan Ali +1

In an Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., smart home), several IoT devices may be available that are interconnected with each other. In such interconnected environments, a…

cs.CR2023

The Case for the Anonymization of Offloaded Computation

Md Washik Al Azad, Shifat Sarwar, Sifat Ut Taki +1

Computation offloading (often to external computing resources over a network) has become a necessity for modern applications. At the same time, the proliferation of machine learnin…

cs.NI2023★ 1 cited

FoggyEdge: An Information Centric Computation Offloading and Management Framework for Edge-based Vehicular Fog Computing

Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Muhammad Salahuddin, Spyridon Mastorakis +1

The recent advances aiming to enable in-network service provisioning are empowering a plethora of smart infrastructure developments, including smart cities, and intelligent transpo…

cs.MM2023

Investigating the Characteristics and Performance of Augmented Reality Applications on Head-Mounted Displays: A Study of the Hololens Application Store

Pubudu Wijesooriya, Sheikh Muhammad Farjad, Nikolaos Stergiou +1

Augmented Reality (AR) based on Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) has gained significant traction over the recent years. Nevertheless, it remains unclear what AR HMD-based applications…

cs.NI2023

An NDN-Enabled Fog Radio Access Network Architecture With Distributed In-Network Caching

Sifat Ut Taki, Spyridon Mastorakis

To meet the increasing demands of next-generation cellular networks (e.g., 6G), advanced networking technologies must be incorporated. On one hand, the Fog Radio Access Network (F-…

cs.NI2022★ 46 cited

Interest Flooding Attacks in Named Data Networking: Survey of Existing Solutions, Open Issues, Requirements and Future Directions (Extended version)

Ahmed Benmoussa, Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache, Nasreddine Lagraa +3

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a prominent realization of the vision of Information-Centric Networking. The NDN architecture adopts name-based routing and location-independent data…

cs.NI2022

An Information Centric Framework for Weather Sensing Data

Robert Thompson, Eric Lyons, Ishita Dasgupta +3

Weather sensing and forecasting has become increasingly accurate in the last decade thanks to high-resolution radars, efficient computational algorithms, and high-performance compu…

cs.NI2022★ 1 cited

Harpocrates: Anonymous Data Publication in Named Data Networking

Md Washik Al Azad, Reza Tourani, Abderrahmen Mtibaa +1

Named-Data Networking (NDN), a prominent realization of the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) vision, offers a request-response communication model where data is identified base…