4 papers
Unravelling Ariadne's Thread: Exploring the Threats of Decentalised DNS
Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino, Nikolaos Lykousas +1
The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerable centralisation with the big tech companies controlling the vast majority of traffic and services. This ha…
Encrypted and Covert DNS Queries for Botnets: Challenges and Countermeasures
Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino, Vasilios Katos
There is a continuous increase in the sophistication that modern malware exercise in order to bypass the deployed security mechanisms. A typical approach to evade the identificatio…
IDEAL-CITIES: A Trustworthy and Sustainable Framework for Circular Smart Cities
Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos, Vasilios Katos, Theodoros Kostoulas +9
Reflecting upon the sustainability challenges cities will be facing in the near future and the recent technological developments allowing cities to become "smart", we introduce IDE…
On detecting terrestrial planets with timing of giant planet transits
E. Agol, J. Steffen, R. Sari +1
The transits of a planet on a Keplerian orbit occur at time intervals exactly equal to the period of the orbit. If a second planet is introduced the orbit is not Keplerian and the…