Paul Barford

Orcid: 0000-0001-7874-1819

Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA


According to our database1, Paul Barford authored at least 136 papers between 1989 and 2024.

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ACM Fellow

ACM Fellow 2016, "For contributions to Internet measurement and analysis".

IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow 2018, "For contributions to Internet measurement and security".

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2024
Improving Scalability in Traffic Engineering via Optical Topology Programming.
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag., April, 2024

Message from the Technical Program Committee Chairs.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., February, 2024

2023
A Hop Away from Everywhere: A View of the Intercontinental Long-haul Infrastructure.
Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., December, 2023

A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers.
Commun. ACM, August, 2023

A hop away from everywhere: A view of the intercontinental long-haul infrastructure.
CoRR, 2023

DScope: A Cloud-Native Internet Telescope.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, 2023

The CVE Wayback Machine: Measuring Coordinated Disclosure from Exploits against Two Years of Zero-Days.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, 2023

Measuring the Impacts of Power Outages on Internet Hosts in the United States.
Proceedings of the Critical Infrastructure Protection XVII, 2023

2022
iHorology: Lowering the Barrier to Microsecond-Level Internet Time.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2022

BigBen: Telemetry Processing for Internet-Wide Event Monitoring.
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag., 2022

Curvature-based Analysis of Network Connectivity in Private Backbone Infrastructures.
Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., 2022

Placement Laundering and the Complexities of Attribution in Online Advertising.
CoRR, 2022

iGDB: connecting the physical and logical layers of the internet.
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2022

2021
Internet Photonic Sensing: Using the Internet Optical Transport Signals for Vibration and Deformation Sensing.
Proceedings of the OptSys '21: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Optical Systems, 2021

Are WANs Ready for Optical Topology Programming?
Proceedings of the OptSys '21: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Optical Systems, 2021

2020
Internet Photonic Sensing: Using Internet Fiber Optics for Vibration Measurement and Monitoring.
CoRR, 2020

Characteristics of Metro Fiber Deployments in the US.
Proceedings of the 4th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, 2020

Triangulated Rank-ordering of Web domains.
Proceedings of the 32nd International Teletraffic Congress, 2020

Five Alarms: Assessing the Vulnerability of US Cellular Communication Infrastructure to Wildfires.
Proceedings of the IMC '20: ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2020

2019
A Residential Client-side Perspective on SSL Certificates.
Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, 2019

A URL-based Analysis of WWW Structure and Dynamics.
Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, 2019

Bokeh: obfuscating physical infrastructure maps.
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, 2019

What time is it: managing time in the internet.
Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, 2019

2018
GreyFiber: A System for Providing Flexible Access to Wide-Area Connectivity.
CoRR, 2018

A System for Clock Synchronization in an Internet of Things.
CoRR, 2018

TimeWeaver: Opportunistic One Way Delay Measurement Via NTP.
Proceedings of the 30th International Teletraffic Congress, 2018

Deployment Characteristics of "The Edge" in Mobile Edge Computing.
Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications, 2018

Wrinkles in Time: Detecting Internet-wide Events via NTP.
Proceedings of the 17th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, 2018

Device Graphing by Example.
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2018

Assessing Candidate Preference through Web Browsing History.
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2018

An architecture for IoT clock synchronization.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things, 2018

Lights Out: Climate Change Risk to Internet Infrastructure.
Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, 2018

2017
A Techno-Economic Approach for Broadband Deployment in Underserved Areas.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2017

Internet Device Graphs.
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Halifax, NS, Canada, August 13, 2017

Automatic metadata generation for active measurement.
Proceedings of the 2017 Internet Measurement Conference, 2017

On the structure and characteristics of user agent string.
Proceedings of the 2017 Internet Measurement Conference, 2017

Explicit Defense Actions Against Test-Set Attacks.
Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2016
An Empirical Study of Web Cookies.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

Bigfoot: A geo-based visualization methodology for detecting BGP threats.
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, 2016

IntegraTag: A Framework for High-Fidelity Web Client Measurement.
Proceedings of the 28th International Teletraffic Congress, 2016

Machine Teaching as Search.
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, 2016

A Techno-Economic Framework for Broadband Deployment in Underserved Areas.
Proceedings of the 2016 workshop on Global Access to the Internet for All, 2016

MNTP: Enhancing Time Synchronization for Mobile Devices.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, 2016

Ad Blockers: Global Prevalence and Impact.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, 2016

What's in the community cookie jar?
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2016

Data Poisoning Attacks against Autoregressive Models.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

2015
pfs: parallelized, flow-based network simulation.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2015

InterTubes: A Study of the US Long-haul Fiber-optic Infrastructure.
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, 2015

Contamination estimation via convex relaxations.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2015

Time's Forgotten: Using NTP to understand Internet Latency.
Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 16, 2015

2014
Adscape: harvesting and analyzing online display ads.
Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, 2014

OFf: bugspray for openflow.
Proceedings of the third workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking, 2014

A QoE Perspective on Sizing Network Buffers.
Proceedings of the 2014 Internet Measurement Conference, 2014

Layer 1-informed Internet Topology Measurement.
Proceedings of the 2014 Internet Measurement Conference, 2014

Controller-agnostic SDN Debugging.
Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, 2014

2013
Impression Fraud in On-line Advertising via Pay-Per-View Networks.
Proceedings of the 22th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, DC, USA, August 14-16, 2013, 2013

Fast, accurate simulation for SDN prototyping.
Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking, 2013

Internet atlas: a geographic database of the internet.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Hot topics in planet-scale measurement, 2013

What's in a name?: decoding router interface names.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Hot topics in planet-scale measurement, 2013

Assessing performance of Internet services on IPv6.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, 2013

Energy Audit: Monitoring power consumption in diverse network environments.
Proceedings of the International Green Computing Conference, 2013

RiskRoute: a framework for mitigating network outage threats.
Proceedings of the Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, 2013

2012
Efficient Network Tomography for Internet Topology Discovery.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2012

Posit: a lightweight approach for IP geolocation.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2012

Editorial introduction.
Queueing Syst. Theory Appl., 2012

A Passive Measurement System for Network Testbeds.
Proceedings of the Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and Communities, 2012

Comparing metro-area cellular and WiFi performance: extended abstract.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2012

Intrusion as (anti)social communication: characterization and detection.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2012

Cell vs. WiFi: on the performance of metro area mobile connections.
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2012

Revisiting broadband performance.
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2012

Toward an analytic framework for the electrical power grid.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking, 2012

A router primitive approach for building diverse network services.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, 2012

2011
Inferring Unseen Components of the Internet Core.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2011

Honeynet games: a game theoretic approach to defending network monitors.
J. Comb. Optim., 2011

Efficient network-wide flow record generation.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2011. 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2011

Fingerprinting 802.11 rate adaption algorithms.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2011. 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2011

DomainImpute: Inferring unseen components in the Internet.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2011. 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2011

On the prevalence and characteristics of MPLS deployments in the open internet.
Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2011

2010
Cyber SA: Situational Awareness for Cyber Defense.
Proceedings of the Cyber Situational Awareness - Issues and Research, 2010

Employing Honeynets For Network Situational Awareness.
Proceedings of the Cyber Situational Awareness - Issues and Research, 2010

Multiobjective monitoring for SLA compliance.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2010

A Machine Learning Approach to TCP Throughput Prediction.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2010

A Learning-Based Approach for IP Geolocation.
Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement, 11th International Conference, 2010

Toward the Practical Use of Network Tomography for Internet Topology Discovery.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2010. 29th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2010

BasisDetect: a model-based network event detection framework.
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2010

2009
Router primitives for programmable active measurement.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of Tomorrow, 2009

On The Accuracy of TCP Throughput Prediction for Opportunistic Wireless Networks.
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, 2009

Estimating Hop Distance Between Arbitrary Host Pairs.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2009. 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2009

Network Performance Anomaly Detection and Localization.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2009. 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2009

An Attacker-Defender Game for Honeynets.
Proceedings of the Computing and Combinatorics, 15th Annual International Conference, 2009

Network anomaly confirmation, diagnosis and remediation.
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, 2009

2008
A geometric approach to improving active packet loss measurement.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2008

An SLA perspective on the router buffer sizing problem.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2008

Network discovery from passive measurements.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Conference on Applications, 2008

Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of Internet Malicious Sources.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2008. 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2008

Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2008. 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2008

Context-aware clustering of DNS query traffic.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2008

2007
An Inside Look at Botnets.
Proceedings of the Malware Detection, 2007

Laboratory-based calibration of available bandwidth estimation tools.
Microprocess. Microsystems, 2007

Accurate and efficient SLA compliance monitoring.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2007 Conference on Applications, 2007

Toward Botnet Mesocosms.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets, 2007

A Framework for Multi-Objective SLA Compliance Monitoring.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2007. 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2007

An active measurement system for shared environments.
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2007

Learning network structure from passive measurements.
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2007

2006
Composite Subset Measures.
Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2006

Tracking the Role of Adversaries in Measuring Unwanted Traffic.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet, 2006

A Proposed Framework for Calibration of Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2006), 2006

Toward a Query Language for Network Attack Data.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, 2006

On the Performance of Round Trip Time Network Tomography.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2006

Improving NIDS Performance Through Hardware-based Connection Filtering.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2006

Recent Advances in Network Intrusion Detection System Tuning.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2006

2005
An Architecture for Generating Semantic Aware Signatures.
Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 31, 2005

Improving accuracy in end-to-end packet loss measurement.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Conference on Applications, 2005

Scalable Network Path Emulation.
Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Modeling, 2005

2004
Comparing Probe- and Router-Based Packet-Loss Measurement.
IEEE Internet Comput., 2004

Representing the Internet as a succinct forest.
Comput. Networks, 2004

Harpoon: a flow-level traffic generator for router and network tests.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2004

On the Design and Use of Internet Sinks for Network Abuse Monitoring.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 7th International Symposium, 2004

Global Intrusion Detection in the DOMINO Overlay System.
Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2004

Network radar: tomography from round trip time measurements.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2004

A framework for malicious workload generation.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2004

Self-configuring network traffic generation.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2004

Characteristics of internet background radiation.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2004

2003
Bench-style network research in an Internet Instance Laboratory.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2003

Internet intrusions: global characteristics and prevalence.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2003

2002
A signal analysis of network traffic anomalies.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, 2002

Resource deployment based on autonomous system clustering.
Proceedings of the Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002

2001
Critical path analysis of TCP transactions.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2001

Characteristics of network traffic flow anomalies.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, 2001

On the marginal utility of network topology measurements.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, 2001

1999
Changes in Web Client Access Patterns: Characteristics and Caching Implications.
World Wide Web, 1999

Measuring Web performance in the wide area.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 1999

A Performance Evaluation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocols.
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 1999

1998
Generating Representative Web Workloads for Network and Server Performance Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 1998

The Network Effects of Prefetching.
Proceedings of the Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM '98, The Conference on Computer Communications, Seventeenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, Gateway to the 21st Century, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 29, 1998

1989
A system simulation environment within Digital.
Proceedings of the Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1989


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