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A Comprehensive Survey on Network Traffic Synthesis: From Statistical Models to Deep Learning
Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Kaushitha Silva, Chamara Madarasingha +4
Synthetic network traffic generation has emerged as a promising alternative for various data-driven applications in the networking domain. It enables the creation of synthetic data…
A Multi-modal Neural Embeddings Approach for Detecting Mobile Counterfeit Apps: A Case Study on Google Play Store
Naveen Karunanayake, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Ashanie Gunathillake +2
Counterfeit apps impersonate existing popular apps in attempts to misguide users to install them for various reasons such as collecting personal information or spreading malware. M…
Impact of network delays on Hyperledger Fabric
Thanh Son Lam Nguyen, Guillaume Jourjon, Maria Potop-Butucaru +1
Blockchain has become one of the most attractive technologies for applications, with a large range of deployments such as production, economy, or banking. Under the hood, Blockchai…
The Attack of the Clones Against Proof-of-Authority
Parinya Ekparinya, Vincent Gramoli, Guillaume Jourjon
In this paper, we explore vulnerabilities and countermeasures of the recently proposed blockchain consensus based on proof-of-authority. The proof-of-work blockchains, like Bitcoin…
Blockchain-based Smart Contracts - Applications and Challenges
Yining Hu, Madhusanka Liyanage, Ahsan Mansoor +3
A blockchain-based smart contract or a "smart contract" for short, is a computer program intended to digitally facilitate the negotiation or contractual terms directly between user…
Double-Spending Risk Quantification in Private, Consortium and Public Ethereum Blockchains
Parinya Ekparinya, Vincent Gramoli, Guillaume Jourjon
Recently, several works conjectured the vulnerabilities of mainstream blockchains under several network attacks. All these attacks translate into showing that the assumptions of th…
A Neural Embeddings Approach for Detecting Mobile Counterfeit Apps
Jathushan Rajasegaran, Suranga Seneviratne, Guillaume Jourjon
Counterfeit apps impersonate existing popular apps in attempts to misguide users to install them for various reasons such as collecting personal information, spreading malware, or…
A Delay-Tolerant Payment Scheme Based on the Ethereum Blockchain
Yining Hu, Ahsan Manzoor, Parinya Ekparinya +5
Banking as an essential service can be hard to access in remote, rural regions where the network connectivity is intermittent. Although micro-banking has been made possible by SMS…
Measuring, Characterizing, and Detecting Facebook Like Farms
Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi +5
Social networks offer convenient ways to seamlessly reach out to large audiences. In particular, Facebook pages are increasingly used by businesses, brands, and organizations to co…
Are Today's SDN Controllers Ready for Primetime?
Stephen Mallon, Vincent Gramoli, Guillaume Jourjon
SDN efficiency is driven by the ability of controllers to process small packets based on a global view of the network. The goal of such controllers is thus to treat new flows comin…
Endpoint-transparent Multipath Transport with Software-defined Networks
Dario Banfi, Olivier Mehani, Guillaume Jourjon +2
Multipath forwarding consists of using multiple paths simultaneously to transport data over the network. While most such techniques require endpoint modifications, we investigate h…
Combating Fraud in Online Social Networks: Detecting Stealthy Facebook Like Farms
Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi +5
As businesses increasingly rely on social networking sites to engage with their customers, it is crucial to understand and counter reputation manipulation activities, including fra…
Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace
Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Emiliano De Cristofaro +5
Over the past few years, many black-hat marketplaces have emerged that facilitate access to reputation manipulation services such as fake Facebook likes, fraudulent search engine o…
Can SDN Mitigate Disasters?
Vincent Gramoli, Guillaume Jourjon, Olivier Mehani
Datacenter networks and services are at risk in the face of disasters. Existing fault-tolerant storage services cannot even achieve a nil recovery point objective (RPO) as client-g…
Repeatable Experiments with LabWiki
Thierry Rakotoarivelo, Guillaume Jourjon, Olivier Mehani +2
The ability to repeat the experiments from a research study and obtain similar results is a corner stone in experiment-based scientific discovery. This essential feature has been o…
Paying for Likes? Understanding Facebook Like Fraud Using Honeypots
Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon +2
Facebook pages offer an easy way to reach out to a very large audience as they can easily be promoted using Facebook's advertising platform. Recently, the number of likes of a Face…
Rate Control Adaptation for Heterogeneous Handovers
Olivier Mehani, Roksana Boreli, Guillaume Jourjon +1
We present enhancements to the TCP-Friendly Rate Control mechanism (TFRC) designed to better handle the intermittent connectivity occurring in mobility situations. Our aim is to qu…
A Method for the Characterisation of Observer Effects and its Application to OML
Olivier Mehani, Guillaume Jourjon, Thierry Rakotoarivelo
In all measurement campaigns, one needs to assert that the instrumentation tools do not significantly impact the system being monitored. This is critical to future claims based on…