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20142026
most citedA Novel Framework for Modeling and Mitigating Distributed Link Flooding Attacks

73 citations · 205 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CL2026

EURO-5K: When Does Domain Pretraining Matter? Benchmarking Transformers for EU Reporting Obligation Extraction

Marios Koniaris, Vasileios Kotronis, Eugenia Giannini +1

Extracting reporting obligations from EU legislation is critical for assessing and reducing regulatory reporting burden. However, distinguishing reporting requirements from structu…

cs.NI2021

Estimating the Impact of BGP Prefix Hijacking

Pavlos Sermpezis, Vasileios Kotronis, Konstantinos Arakadakis +1

BGP prefix hijacking is a critical threat to the resilience and security of communications in the Internet. While several mechanisms have been proposed to prevent, detect or mitiga…

cs.NI2020★ 1 cited

Network-aware Recommendations in the Wild: Methodology, Realistic Evaluations, Experiments

Savvas Kastanakis, Pavlos Sermpezis, Vasileios Kotronis +2

Joint caching and recommendation has been recently proposed as a new paradigm for increasing the efficiency of mobile edge caching. Early findings demonstrate significant gains for…

cs.NI2019★ 26 cited

O Peer, Where Art Thou? Uncovering Remote Peering Interconnections at IXPs

George Nomikos, Vasileios Kotronis, Pavlos Sermpezis +6

Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) are Internet hubs that mainly provide the switching infrastructure to interconnect networks and exchange traffic. While the initial goal of IXPs was…

cs.NI2019★ 6 cited

Validating IP Prefixes and AS-Paths with Blockchains

Ilias Sfirakis, Vasileios Kotronis

Networks (Autonomous Systems-AS) allocate or revoke IP prefixes with the intervention of official Internet resource number authorities, and select and advertise policy-compliant pa…

cs.NI2019

Inferring Catchment in Internet Routing

Pavlos Sermpezis, Vasileios Kotronis

BGP is the de-facto Internet routing protocol for exchanging prefix reachability information between Autonomous Systems (AS). It is a dynamic, distributed, path-vector protocol tha…

cs.NI2018★ 8 cited

CABaRet: Leveraging Recommendation Systems for Mobile Edge Caching

Savvas Kastanakis, Pavlos Sermpezis, Vasileios Kotronis +1

Joint caching and recommendation has been recently proposed for increasing the efficiency of mobile edge caching. While previous works assume collaboration between mobile network o…

cs.NI2018

A Survey among Network Operators on BGP Prefix Hijacking

Pavlos Sermpezis, Vasileios Kotronis, Alberto Dainotti +1

BGP prefix hijacking is a threat to Internet operators and users. Several mechanisms or modifications to BGP that protect the Internet against it have been proposed. However, the r…

cs.NI2018

ARTEMIS: Neutralizing BGP Hijacking within a Minute

Pavlos Sermpezis, Vasileios Kotronis, Petros Gigis +4

BGP prefix hijacking is a critical threat to Internet organizations and users. Despite the availability of several defense approaches (ranging from RPKI to popular third-party serv…

cs.NI2017

Shortcuts through Colocation Facilities

Vasileios Kotronis, George Nomikos, Lefteris Manassakis +2

Network overlays, running on top of the existing Internet substrate, are of perennial value to Internet end-users in the context of, e.g., real-time applications. Such overlays can…

cs.NI2017★ 9 cited

Characterizing User-to-User Connectivity with RIPE Atlas

Petros Gigis, Vasileios Kotronis, Emile Aben +2

Characterizing the interconnectivity of networks at a country level is an interesting but non-trivial task. The IXP Country Jedi is an existing prototype that uses RIPE Atlas probe…

cs.NI2016

Investigating the Potential of the Inter-IXP Multigraph for the Provisioning of Guaranteed End-to-End Services

Vasileios Kotronis, Rowan Kloti, Matthias Rost +4

In this work, we propose utilizing the rich connectivity between IXPs and ISPs for inter-domain path stitching, supervised by centralized QoS brokers. In this context, we highlight…

cs.NI2016

Evaluating the Effect of Centralization on Routing Convergence on a Hybrid BGP-SDN Emulation Framework

Adrian Gamperli, Vasileios Kotronis, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

A lot of applications depend on reliable and stable Internet connectivity. These characteristics are crucial for mission-critical services such as telemedical applications. An impo…

cs.NI2016

Policy-Compliant Path Diversity and Bisection Bandwidth

Rowan Kloti, Vasileios Kotronis, Bernhard Ager +1

How many links can be cut before a network is bisected? What is the maximal bandwidth that can be pushed between two nodes of a network? These questions are closely related to netw…

cs.NI2016

Stitching Inter-Domain Paths over IXPs

Vasileios Kotronis, Rowan Kloti, Matthias Rost +4

Modern Internet applications, from HD video-conferencing to health monitoring and remote control of power-plants, pose stringent demands on network latency, bandwidth and availabil…

cs.NI2016★ 25 cited

Control Exchange Points: Providing QoS-enabled End-to-End Services via SDN-based Inter-domain Routing Orchestration

Vasileios Kotronis, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Rowan Kloti +3

This paper presents the vision of the Control Exchange Point (CXP) architectural model. The model is motivated by the inflexibility and ossification of today's inter-domain routing…

cs.NI2016

A Comparative Look into Public IXP Datasets

Rowan Kloti, Bernhard Ager, Vasileios Kotronis +2

Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) are core components of the Internet infrastructure where Internet Service Providers (ISPs) meet and exchange traffic. During the last few years, the…

cs.NI2016★ 2 cited

Routing Centralization Across Domains via SDN: A Model and Emulation Framework for BGP Evolution

Vasileios Kotronis, Adrian Gamperli, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

In this work, we propose a radical, incrementally-deployable Internet routing paradigm in which the control plane of multiple networks is centralized. This follows the Software Def…

cs.NI2016★ 73 cited

A Novel Framework for Modeling and Mitigating Distributed Link Flooding Attacks

hristos Liaskos, Vasileios Kotronis, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

Distributed link-flooding attacks constitute a new class of attacks with the potential to segment large areas of the Internet. Their distributed nature makes detection and mitigati…

cs.NI2016★ 45 cited

On the Interplay of Link-Flooding Attacks and Traffic Engineering

Dimitrios Gkounis, Vasileios Kotronis, Christos Liaskos +1

Link-flooding attacks have the potential to disconnect even entire countries from the Internet. Moreover, newly proposed indirect link-flooding attacks, such as 'Crossfire', are ex…

cs.NI2014★ 10 cited

Towards Defeating the Crossfire Attack using SDN

Dimitrios Gkounis, Vasileios Kotronis, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

In this work, we propose online traffic engineering as a novel approach to detect and mitigate an emerging class of stealthy Denial of Service (DoS) link-flooding attacks. Our appr…