Research  Selected Journal and Conference Publications: Michael Bailey, Jon Oberheide, Jon Andersen, Z. Morley Mao, Farnam Jahanian, and Jose Nazario, "Automated Classification and Analysis of Internet Malware," Proc. of Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2007), September 2007. Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke, and Farnam Jahanian, "Rethinking Antivirus: Executable Analysis in the Network Cloud," USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec'07), August 2007. Sushant Sinha, Michael Bailey, and Farnam Jahanian "Shedding Light on the Configuration of Dark Addresses," Proc. of Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS'07), February 2007. Sushant Sinha, Farnam Jahanian, and Jignesh M. Patel "WIND: Workload-aware INtrusion Detection," Proc. of Recent Advances In Intrusion Detection (RAID'06), September 2006. Evan Cooke, Andrew Myrick, David Rusek, Farnam Jahanian "Resource-Aware Multi-Format Network Security Data Storage," Proc. of the SIGCOMM Workshop on Large Scale Attack Defense (LSAD'06), September 2006. Evan Cooke, Z. Morley Mao, and Farnam Jahanian, "Hotspots: The Root Causes of Non-Uniformity in Self-Propagating Malware," International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2006), Philadelphia, PA, June 2006. Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, Farnam Jahanian, and Richard Mortier, "The Dark Oracle: Perspective-Aware Unused and Unreachable Address Discovery," 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI06), San Jose, CA, May 2006. Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, Niels Provos, Karl Rosaen, and David Watson, "Data Reduction for the Scalable Automated Analysis of Distributed Darknet Traffic," Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2005), Oct. 2005. Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, Jose Nazario, and David Watson, "The Blaster Worm: Then and Now," IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, volume 3, issue 4, pp. 26- 31, July-Aug. 2005. Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, and Danny McPherson, "The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets," Usenix Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI 2005), Cambridge, MA, pp. 39-44, July 2005. Junghee Han, David Watson, and Farnam Jahanian, "Topology Aware Overlay Networks," IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005. Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, Jose Nazario, and David Watson, "The Internet Motion Sensor: A Distributed Blackhole Monitoring System," Proceedings of the 12th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, Feb. 2005. Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, Z. Morley Mao, David Watson, Farnam Jahanian, and Danny McPherson, "Toward Understanding Distributed Blackhole Placement," WORM'04, Washington, DC, October 2004. Junghee Han and Farnam Jahanian, "Impact of Path Diversity on Multi-homed and Overlay Networks," IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2004), Florence, Italy, pp. 22-31, June 2004. David Watson, Matthew Smart, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian, "Protocol Scrubbing: Network Security through Transparent Flow Modification," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 261-73, April 2004. David Watson, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian, "An extensible probe architecture for network protocol performance measurement," vol. 34, Software Practice & Experience, 2004. David Watson, Farnam Jahanian, and Craig Labovitz, “Experiences with Monitoring OSPF on a Regional Service Provider Network,” 23rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), pp. 204-213, May 2003. Junghee Han, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian, "Fault-tolerant virtual private networks within an autonomous system," Proceedings of 21st IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, pp. 13-16, Oct. 2002. C. Labovitz, A. Ahuja, A. Bose, and F. Jahanian, "Delayed internet routing convergence," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 293-306, June 2001. D. Stuart, M. Brockmeyer, F. Jahanian, and A. Mok, "Simulation and Verification: Biting at the State Explosion Problem," vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 599-617, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, July 2001. D. Watson, M. Smart, G.R. Malan, and F. Jahanian, "Protocol scrubbing: network security through transparent flow modification," Proceedings of DISCEX'01: DARPA Information Survivability Conference & Exposition II, Vol. 2, pp. 108-118, June 2001. M. Brockmeyer, F. Jahanlan, C. Heitmeyer, and E. Winner, "A flexible, extensible simulation environment for testing real-time specifications" IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 1184-2001, Nov. 2000. S. Johnson, F. Jahanian, A. Miyoshi, D. de Niz, R. Rajkumar, "Constructing real-time group communication middleware using the Resource Kernel," 21st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 3-12, Nov. 2000. C. Labovitz, A. Ahuja, A. Bose, and F. Jahanian, “An Experimental Study of BGP Convergence,” in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 175-87, August 2000. M.C. Smart, R.G. Malan, and F. Jahanian, “Defeating TCP/IP Stack Fingerprinting,” 9th USENIX Security Symposium, Denver, CO, pp. 229-39, August 2000. S. Johnson, F. Jahanian, S. Ghosh, B. VanVoorst, N. Weininger, “Experiences with Group Communication Middleware,” Practical Experience Report, Int. Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2000), New York, NY, pp. 37-42, June 2000. R. Malan, D. Watson, F. Jahanian, and Paul Howell, “Transport and Application Protocol Scrubbing,” Proceeding of INFOCOM2000, Israel, Vol. 3, pp. 1381-90, March 2000. H. Zou, N. Soparkar, F. Jahanian, "Probabilistic Data Consistency for Wide-Area Applications," Abstract in 16th International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 85, Feb-March 2000. H. Zou and F. Jahanian, ”Real-Time Primary-Backup Replication with Temporal Consistency Guarantees,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 533-48, June 1999. S. Subramanian, G.R. Malan, H.S. Shim, P. Knoop, T. Weymouth, F. Jahanian, and A. Prakash, ”Software Architecture for the UARC Web-based Collaboratory,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 46-54, March-April 1999. S. Johnson and F. Jahanian, and J. Shah, ”The Inter-Group Router Approach to Scalable Group Composition,” in Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS-99, Austin, TX, pp. 4-14, June 1999. C. Labovitz, A. Ahuja, and F. Jahanian, ”Experimental Study of Internet Stability and Wide-Area Backbone Failures,” in Proceedings of FTCS-29, the 29th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing Madison, Wisconsin, pp. 278-285, June 1999. T. Abdelzaher, S. Dawson, W.-C. Feng, F. Jahanian, S. Johnson, A. Mehra, T. Mitton, A. Shaikh, K. Shin, Z. Wang, and H. Zou, ”ARMADA Middleware and Communication Services,” Real-Time Systems Journal, vol. 16, no. 2-3, pp. 127-53, May 1999. C. Labovitz, G.R. Malan, and F. Jahanian, ”Origins of Internet Routing Instability,” in Proceedings of INFOCOM99, New York, NY, vol. 1, pp. 218-26, March 1999. Craig Labovitz, G.Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian, "Internet Routing Instability," ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 515-528, Oct. 1998. Hengmin Zou and Farnam Jahanian, "Optimization of a Real-Time Primary-Backup Replication Service," Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Oct. 1998. G. Robert Malan and Farnam Jahanian, "An Extensible Probe Architecture for Network Protocol Performance Measurement" Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Sept. 1998. Hengmin Zou and Farnam Jahanian, "Real-Time Primary-Backup Replication with Temporal Consistency Guarantees,"Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1998. G. R. Malan, F. Jahanian, and S. Subramanian, ”Attribute-Based Data Dissemination for Internet Applications,” Journal of High-Speed Networking Special Issue Multimedia Networking, Vol. 7, Number 3-4, pp. 319-337, 1998. G. Olson, D. Atkins, R. Clauer, T. Finholt, F. Jahanian, T. Killeen, A. Prakash, T. Weymouth, ”The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory,” ACM Interactions Magazine, v. 3, pp. 48-55, May-June 1998. Scott Dawson, Farnam Jahanian, and Todd Mitton, "Experiments on Six Commercial TCP Implementations Using a Software Fault Injection Tool," Software Practice and Experience, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 1385-1410, December 1997. G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, and Sushila Subramanian, "Salamander: A Push-based Distribution Substrate for Internet Applications"Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, December 1997; Monterey, California. C. Labovitz, G.R. Malan, and F. Jahanian, "Internet Routing Instability," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Best Student Paper Award, Sept. 1997. ( Extended version in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking, Oct. 1998.) Mehra, J. Rexford, and F. Jahanian, ”Design and Evaluation of a Window-Consistent Replication Service,” IEEE Transactions on Computer, vol. 46, no. 9, Sept. 1997. H.-S. Shim, R. Hall, A. Prakash, and F. Jahanian, "Providing Flexible Services for Managing Shared State in Collaborative Systems," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 97)}, Lancaster, UK, September 1997. W. Feng, F. Jahanian, and S. Sechrest, "An Optimal Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for the Delivery of Compressed Video," ACM/Springer Verlag Multimedia Systems Journal, pp. 297-309, Sept. 1997. M. Brockmeyer, F. Jahanian, C. Heitmeyer, B. Labaw, "A Flexible, Extensible Simulation Environment for Testing Real-Time Specifications," in Proceedings of IEEE Real-Time Technology & Applications Symposium, Montreal, pp. 125-35, June 1997. G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, and Peter Knoop, "Comparison of Two Middleware Data Dissemination Services in a Wide-Area Distributed System," Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Baltimore, MD, pp. 411-419, May 1997. R. W. Hall, A. G. Mathur, F. Jahanian, A. Prakash, and C. Rasmussen, "Corona: A Communication Service for Scalable, Reliable Group Collaboration Systems," Proceedings of the ACM Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '96), 1996. Scott Dawson, Farnam Jahanian, and Todd Mitton, "ORCHESTRA: a probing and fault injection environment for testing protocol implementations," Proceedings of IEEE International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium, Sept. 1996. W. Feng, F. Jahanian, S. Sechrest, "Providing VCR Functionality in a Constant Quality Video-On-Demand Transportation Service", IEEE Multimedia Computing Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, pp. 127-135, June 1996. T. Abdelzaher, A. Shaikh, F. Jahanian, and K. Shin, "RTCAST: Lightweight Multicast for Real-Time Process Groups," (Best Student Paper Award) IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, pp. 250-259, June 1996. Scott Dawson, Farnam Jahanian, Todd Mitton, and Teck-Lee Tung, "Testing of Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Distributed Systems via Protocol Fault Injection," Int. Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing (FTCS-26), pp.404-414, June 1996. Scott Dawson and Farnam Jahanian, "Probing and Fault Injection of Dependable Distributed Protocols," The Computer Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4, 1995. Scott Dawson, Farnam Jahanian, and Todd Mitton, "A Software Fault Injection Tool on Real-Time Mach," in Proc. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 130-140, December 1995. Scott Dawson and Farnam Jahanian, "Probing and Fault Injection of Protocol Implementations," Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Distributed Computer Systems, pp. 351-359, May 1995. Farnam Jahanian and Al Mok, "Modechart: A Specification Language for Real-Time Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 933-947, Dec. 1994. Contact me via email for reports not listed here.