5 papers
The Rise and Fall of Google's Privacy Sandbox
Rachid Youssef Grib, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha +2
On October 17th, 2025, Google announced the retirement of most Privacy Sandbox APIs, concluding nearly five years of experimentation with its alternative to privacy-invasive data c…
Lossy Compression of Network Feature Data: When Less Is Enough
Fabio Palmese, Gabriele Merlach, Damiano Ravalico +2
Network traffic analysis increasingly relies on feature-based representations to support monitoring and security in the presence of pervasive encryption. Although features are more…
Holoscope: Open and Lightweight Telescope & Honeypot Platform
Andrea Sordello, Marco Mellia, Idilio Drago +7
The complexity and scale of Internet attacks call for distributed, cooperative observatories capable of monitoring malicious traffic across diverse networks. Holoscope is an open,…
DPMon: a Differentially-Private Query Engine for Passive Measurements
Martino Trevisan
Passive monitoring is a network measurement technique which analyzes the traffic carried by an operational network. It has several applications for traffic engineering, Quality of…
Handling Large-Scale Network Flow Records: A Comparative Study on Lossy Compression
Gabriele Merlach, Damiano Ravalico, Martino Trevisan +3
Flow records, that summarize the characteristics of traffic flows, represent a practical and powerful way to monitor a network. While they already offer significant compression com…