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20182025
most citedIn the IP of the Beholder: Strategies for Active IPv6 Topology Discovery

70 citations · 92 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.NI2025

Sustainability or Survivability? Eliminating the Need to Choose in LEO Satellite Constellations

Chris Misa, Ramakrishnan Durairajan

LEO Satellite Networks (LSNs) are revolutionizing global connectivity, but their reliance on tens of thousands of satellites raises pressing concerns over sustainability and surviv…

cs.NI2025

The Multifractal IP Address Structure: Physical Explanation and Implications

Chris Misa, Ram Durairajan, Arpit Gupta +2

The structure of IP addresses observed in Internet traffic plays a critical role for a wide range of networking problems of current interest. For example, modern network telemetry…

cs.CR2020

Fighting Fire with Light: A Case for Defending DDoS Attacks Using the Optical Layer

Matthew Hall, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Vyas Sekar

The DDoS attack landscape is growing at an unprecedented pace. Inspired by the recent advances in optical networking, we make a case for optical layer-aware DDoS defense (O-LAD) in…

cs.NI2018★ 8 cited

GreyFiber: A System for Providing Flexible Access to Wide-Area Connectivity

Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford, Joel Sommers +1

Access to fiber-optic connectivity in the Internet is traditionally offered either via lit circuits or dark fiber. Economic (capex vs. opex) and operational considerations (latency…

cs.NI2018★ 14 cited

A System for Clock Synchronization in an Internet of Things

Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford +1

Synchronizing clocks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices is important for applications such as monitoring and real time control. In this paper, we describe a system for clock synch…

cs.NI2018★ 70 cited

In the IP of the Beholder: Strategies for Active IPv6 Topology Discovery

Robert Beverly, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, David Plonka +1

Existing methods for active topology discovery within the IPv6 Internet largely mirror those of IPv4. In light of the large and sparsely populated address space, in conjunction wit…

cs.NI2018

TimeWeaver: Opportunistic One Way Delay Measurement via NTP

Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Paul Barford +2

One-way delay (OWD) between end hosts has important implications for Internet applications, protocols, and measurement-based analyses. We describe a new approach for identifying OW…