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Dissecting the Performance of Satellite Network Operators
Aravindh Raman, Matteo Varvello, Hyunseok Chang +2
The rapid growth of satellite network operators (SNOs) has revolutionized broadband communications, enabling global connectivity and bridging the digital divide. As these networks…
T3P: Demystifying Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Broadband
Shubham Tiwari, Saksham Bhushan, Aryan Taneja +8
The Internet is going through a massive infrastructural revolution with the advent of low-flying satellite networks, 5/6G, WiFi7, and hollow-core fiber deployments. While these net…
Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration
Haris Bin Zia, Jiahui He, Aravindh Raman +3
The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has spurred controversy and uncertainty among Twitter users. The move raised as many praises as concerns, particularly regarding Musk's view…
DSM-MoC as Baseline: Reliability Assurance via Redundant Cellular Connectivity in Connected Cars
Emeka Obiodu, Aravindh Raman, Abdullahi Abubakar +3
Connected Cars (CCs) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases require stringent reliability for safety and non-safety uses. With increasing network softwarisation, it has become e…
SLA Management in Intent-Driven Service Management Systems: A Taxonomy and Future Directions
Yogesh Sharma, Deval Bhamare, Nishanth Sastry +2
Traditionally, network and system administrators are responsible for designing, configuring, and resolving the Internet service requests. Human-driven system configuration and mana…
Discovery of the Content and Engagement with the Content
Pushkal Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood
In the second half of the 20th century, Parliament allowed broadcasters to transmit radio and eventually television coverage of debates and meetings of select committees. More rece…
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh. Raman, Ignacio Castro +4
The "Decentralised Web" (DW) is an evolving concept, which encompasses technologies aimed at providing greater transparency and openness on the web. The DW relies on independent se…
"Way back then": A Data-driven View of 25+ years of Web Evolution
Vibhor Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry
Since the inception of the first web page three decades back, the Web has evolved considerably, from static HTML pages in the beginning to the dynamic web pages of today, from main…
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
Anaobi Ishaku Hassan, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +4
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls).…
Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp
Pushkal Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Damilola Ibosiola +3
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app used by over a billion users around the globe. Due to this popularity, understanding misbehavior on WhatsApp is an important issue. The sending…
Aggregate Cyber-Risk Management in the IoT Age: Cautionary Statistics for (Re)Insurers and Likes
Ranjan Pal, Ziyuan Huang, Xinlong Yin +6
In this paper, we provide (i) a rigorous general theory to elicit conditions on (tail-dependent) heavy-tailed cyber-risk distributions under which a risk management firm might find…
Under the Spotlight: Web Tracking in Indian Partisan News Websites
Vibhor Agarwal, Yash Vekaria, Pushkal Agarwal +5
India is experiencing intense political partisanship and sectarian divisions. The paper performs, to the best of our knowledge, the first comprehensive analysis on the Indian onlin…
Differential Tracking Across Topical Webpages of Indian News Media
Yash Vekaria, Vibhor Agarwal, Pushkal Agarwal +4
Online user privacy and tracking have been extensively studied in recent years, especially due to privacy and personal data-related legislations in the EU and the USA, such as the…
Analysing Meso and Macro conversation structures in an online suicide support forum
Sagar Joglekar, Sumithra Velupillai, Rina Dutta +1
Platforms like Reddit and Twitter offer internet users an opportunity to talk about diverse issues, including those pertaining to physical and mental health. Some of these forums a…
From ATM to MPLS and QCI: The Evolution of Differentiated QoS Standards and Implications for 5G Network Slicing
Emeka Obiodu, Nishanth Sastry
The networking community continues to create new technologies and update existing ones to improve the quality, reliability, and "tailorability" of data networks. However, whenever…
Wikipedia and Westminster: Quality and Dynamics of Wikipedia Pages about UK Politicians
Pushkal Agarwal, Miriam Redi, Nishanth Sastry +2
Wikipedia is a major source of information providing a large variety of content online, trusted by readers from around the world. Readers go to Wikipedia to get reliable informatio…
Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network
Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar +2
Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion in the 21st century. Most studies that look into disinformation, political influence and fake-news focus on…
Stop Tracking Me Bro! Differential Tracking Of User Demographics On Hyper-partisan Websites
Pushkal Agarwal, Sagar Joglekar, Panagiotis Papadopoulos +2
Websites with hyper-partisan, left or right-leaning focus offer content that is typically biased towards the expectations of their target audience. Such content often polarizes use…
FaceLift: A transparent deep learning framework to beautify urban scenes
Sagar Joglekar, Daniele Quercia, Miriam Redi +3
In the area of computer vision, deep learning techniques have recently been used to predict whether urban scenes are likely to be considered beautiful: it turns out that these tech…
Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case
Aravindh Raman, Sagar Joglekar, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a number of DW platforms like Mastodon, Peer-Tube, and Hubzilla gaining increasing traction. These offer alter…
Who has the last word? Understanding How to Sample Online Discussions
Gioia Boschi, Anthony P. Young, Sagar Joglekar +2
In online debates individual arguments support or attack each other, leading to some subset of arguments being considered more relevant than others. However, in large discussions r…
Characterising Third Party Cookie Usage in the EU after GDPR
Xuehui Hu, Nishanth Sastry
The recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires that when obtaining information online that could be used to identify individuals, their consents must be…
Tweeting MPs: Digital Engagement between Citizens and Members of Parliament in the UK
Pushkal Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood
Disengagement and disenchantment with the Parliamentary process is an important concern in today's Western democracies. Members of Parliament (MPs) in the UK are therefore seeking…
Throughput-Outage Analysis and Evaluation of Cache-Aided D2D Networks with Measured Popularity Distributions
Ming-Chun Lee, Mingyue Ji, Andreas F. Molisch +1
Caching of video files on user devices, combined with file exchange through device-to-device (D2D) communications is a promising method for increasing the throughput of wireless ne…