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I work as a senior member of technical staff at VMware starting from October 2007.

I have completed my Ph.D. degree in September 2007. My dissertation is "Detecting Malicious Routers," under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Savage and Prof. Keith Marzullo.



Research

Network routers occupy a key role in modern data transport and consequently are attractive targets for attackers. By manipulating, diverting or dropping packets arriving at a compromised router, an attacker can trivially mount denial-of-service, surveillance or man-in-the-middle attacks on end host systems. We specify the problem of detecting routers with incorrect packet forwarding behavior and we explore the design space of protocols that implement such a detector. We further present a concrete protocol that is inexpensive enough for practical implementation at scale. We believe our work is an important step in being able to tolerate attacks on key network infrastructure components. More Details...

My advisors are Stefan Savage and Keith Marzullo.


Dissertation


Refereed Papers


Technical Papers




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