Developing tools and methodologies to help measure the Internet accurately.
what is network measurement?
Internet/network measurement refers to the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to the
structure, behavior, and performance of the internet. It involves studying various aspects of the internet
ecosystem, including network infrastructure, traffic patterns, protocols, services, and user behavior.
It provides valuable insights into the functioning of the internet, facilitates the identification of
performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities, and helps in improving the overall efficiency
and reliability of internet infrastructure and services.
At the SPARTA lab, we're interested in developing methodologies to perform high-quality measurements of a
broad range of Internet ecosystems. Generally, we're interested in uncovering the security trade-offs posed
by new networked technologies. Our current research is focused on uncovering the unintended security consequences
of broad IPv6 and LEO Internet (e.g., Starlink) deployments.
@article{diamantis2023employed,title={Employed Algorithms: A labor model for corporate liability for AI},author={Diamantis, Mihailis E},journal={Duke Law Journal},volume={72},number={4},year={2023},}
Making Sense of Constellations: Methodologies for Understanding
Starlink’s Scheduling Algorithms
Hammas Bin Tanveer, Mike Puchol, Rachee Singh, Antonio Bianchi, and Rishab Nithyanand
ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments
and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2023
@article{CoNEXT-2023,title={{Making Sense of Constellations: Methodologies for Understanding
Starlink's Scheduling Algorithms}},author={Tanveer, Hammas Bin and Puchol, Mike and Singh, Rachee and Bianchi, Antonio and Nithyanand, Rishab},year={2023},journal={ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments
and Technologies (CoNEXT)},}
Glowing in the Dark: Uncovering IPv6 Address Discovery and Scanning Strategies in the Wild
Hammas Bin Tanveer, Paul Pearce, Rachee Singh, and Rishab Nithyanand
@article{USENIX-2023,title={Glowing in the Dark: Uncovering IPv6 Address Discovery and Scanning Strategies in the Wild},author={Tanveer, Hammas Bin and Pearce, Paul and Singh, Rachee and Nithyanand, Rishab},journal={USENIX Security Symposium},year={2023},}
When Are Cache-Oblivious Algorithms Cache Adaptive? A Case Study of Matrix Multiplication and Sorting
Arghya Bhattacharya, Helen Xu, Abiyaz Chowdhury, Rezaul Chowdhury, Rathish Das, Rob Johnson, Rishab Nithyanand, and Michael Bender
@article{esa-2022,title={When Are Cache-Oblivious Algorithms Cache Adaptive? A Case Study of Matrix Multiplication and Sorting},author={Bhattacharya, Arghya and Xu, Helen and Chowdhury, Abiyaz and Chowdhury, Rezaul and Das, Rathish and Johnson, Rob and Nithyanand, Rishab and Bender, Michael},journal={European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)},year={2022},}
Apophanies or Epiphanies? How Crawlers Impact Our Understanding of the Web
@article{Ahmad-WWW2020,author={Ahmad, Suleman and Dar, Daniyal and Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo and Zaffar, Fareed and Nithyanand, Rishab},journal={The Web Conference (WWW)},title={Apophanies or Epiphanies? How Crawlers Impact Our Understanding of the Web},year={2020},}
Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking
Rachee Singh, Rishab Nithyanand, Sadia Afroz, Paul Pearce, Michael Carl Tschantz, Phillipa Gill, and Vern Paxson
@article{DBLP:conf/anrw/SinghNAPTGP18,author={Singh, Rachee and Nithyanand, Rishab and Afroz, Sadia and Pearce, Paul and Tschantz, Michael Carl and Gill, Phillipa and Paxson, Vern},title={Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking},journal={Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW)},pages={23},year={2018},}
A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level
Path Churn and Network Tomography
Shinyoung Cho, Rishab Nithyanand, Abbas Razaghpanah, and Phillipa Gill
International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and
Technologies (CoNEXT), 2017
@article{DBLP:conf/conext/ChoNRG17,author={Cho, Shinyoung and Nithyanand, Rishab and Razaghpanah, Abbas and Gill, Phillipa},title={A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level
Path Churn and Network Tomography},journal={International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and
Technologies (CoNEXT)},pages={81--87},year={2017},}
Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking
Rachee Singh, Rishab Nithyanand, Sadia Afroz, Paul Pearce, Michael Carl Tschantz, Phillipa Gill, and Vern Paxson
@article{DBLP:conf/uss/SinghNAPTGP17,author={Singh, Rachee and Nithyanand, Rishab and Afroz, Sadia and Pearce, Paul and Tschantz, Michael Carl and Gill, Phillipa and Paxson, Vern},title={Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking},journal={{USENIX} Security Symposium},pages={325--341},year={2017},}
Measuring and Mitigating AS-level Adversaries Against Tor
Rishab Nithyanand, Oleksii Starov, Phillipa Gill, Adva Zair, and Michael Schapira
23rd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
(NDSS), 2016
@article{DBLP:conf/ndss/NithyanandSGZS16,author={Nithyanand, Rishab and Starov, Oleksii and Gill, Phillipa and Zair, Adva and Schapira, Michael},title={Measuring and Mitigating AS-level Adversaries Against Tor},journal={23rd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
(NDSS)},year={2016},crossref={DBLP:conf/ndss/2016},}
