Publications (by year)

Journals

1. Towards Automatic Protocol Field Inference,
   I. Bermudez, Alok Tongaonkar, M. Iliofotou, M. Mellia, M. Munafo,
   Computer Communications (COMCOM), Jun '16.


2. YouLighter: A Cognitive Approach to Unveil YouTube CDN and Changes
   D. Giordano, S. Traverso, L. Grimaudo, M. Mellia, E. Baralis, Alok Tongaonkar, S. Saha,
   IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Jun '16.


3. Condition Factorization: A Technique for Building Fast and Compact Packet Matching Automata,
   Alok Tongaonkar and R. Sekar,
   IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Mar '16.


4. Detecting Malicious Activities with User-Agent Based Profiles,
   Y. Zhang, H. Mekky, Z. Zhang, R. Torres, S.J. Lee, Alok Tongaonkar, M. Mellia
   International Journal of Network Management (IJNM), Sept '15.


5. Towards Self Adaptive Network Traffic Classification,
   Alok Tongaonkar, R. Torres, M. Iliofotou, R. Keralapura, A. Nucci,
   Computer Communications (COMCOM), Mar '14.


6. Securing the interactions between X clients,
   P. Uppuluri, Alok Tongaonkar, V. Diwakara, V. Rajegowda,
   International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), Sept '09.

Conferences

1. KALI: Scalable Encryption Fingerprinting in Dynamic Malware Trace,
   L. Carli, R. Torres, G. Modelo-Howard, Alok Tongaonkar, S. Jha,
   To appear in International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (Malcon), Oct '17.


2. Botnet Protocol Inference in the Presence of Encrypted Traffic,
   L. Carli, R. Torres, G. Modelo-Howard, Alok Tongaonkar, S. Jha,
   IEEE Infocom, '17.


3. Approximate Matching of Persistent LExicon using Search-Engines For Classifying Mobile App Traffic,
   G. Ranjan, Alok Tongaonkar, R. Torres,
   IEEE Infocom, '16.


4. Identifying Personal Information in Internet Traffic
   Y. Liu, H. Song, I. Bermudez, A. Mislove, M. Baldi, Alok Tongaonkar,
   ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), '15.


5. SAMPLES: Self Adaptive Mining of Persistent LExical Snippets for Classifying Mobile Application Traffic
   H. Yao, G. Ranjan, Alok Tongaonkar, Y. Liao, Z. Mao,
   MobiCom, '15.


6. Automatic Protocol Field Inference for Deeper Protocol Understanding
   I. Bermudez, Alok Tongaonkar, M. Iliofotou, M. Mellia, M. Munafo,
   IFIP/TC6 Networking, '15,
   Invited for fast-track submission to Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (COMCOM).


7. YouLighter: An Unsupervised Methodology to Unveil YouTube CDN Changes
   D. Giordano, S. Traverso, L. Grimaudo, M. Mellia, E. Baralis, Alok Tongaonkar, S. Saha,
   International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), '15,
   Best Student Paper.


8. SANTACLASS: A Self Adaptive Network Traffic Classification System,
   Alok Tongaonkar, R. Keralapura, A. Nucci,
   IFIP/TC6 Networking, '13,
   Invited for fast-track submission to Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (COMCOM).


9. NetworkProfiler: Towards Automatic Fingerprinting of Android Apps,
   S. Dai, Alok Tongaonkar, X. Wang, D. Song, A. Nucci,
   IEEE Infocom, '13.


10. Understanding Mobile App Usage Patterns Using In-App Advertisements,
    Alok Tongaonkar, S. Dai, A. Nucci, D. Song,
    Passive and Active Measurement Conference, '13.


11. Fast Packet Classification using Condition Factorization,
    Alok Tongaonkar, R. Sekar, and S. Vasudevan,
    Applied Cryptography and Network Security, '09.


12. Fast Packet Classification for Snort using Native Code,
    Alok Tongaonkar, S. Vasudevan, and R. Sekar,
    USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference, '08.


13. Inferring Higher Level Policies from Firewall Rules,
    Alok Tongaonkar, N. Inamdar, and R. Sekar,
    USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference, '07.

Magazines

1. Demystifying DDoS-as-a-Service,
   A. Zand, G. Modelo-Howard, Alok Tongaonkar, S. Lee, C. Krugel, G. Vigna,
   IEEE Communications Magazine (Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, July '17.


2. A Look at the Mobile App Identification,
   Alok Tongaonkar,
   IEEE Internet Computing, July '16.

Workshops

1. Per-user Policy Enforcement on Mobile Apps through Network Functions Virtualization
   A. Sapio, Y. Liao, M. Baldi, G. Ranjan, F. Risso, Alok Tongaonkar, R. Torres, A. Nucci,
   MobiArch (co-located with Mobicom), '14.


2. Towards Automatic Learning of Valid Services for Honeypots,
   V. Chowdhary, Alok Tongaonkar, T. Chiueh,
   Workshop on Data Mining for Security and Other Applications in International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, '04.

Demos

1. MAPPER: A Mobile Application Personal Policy Enforcement Router for Enterprise Networks,
   A. Sapio, M. Baldi, Y. Liao, G. Ranjan, F. Risso, A. Tongaonkar, R. Torres, A. Nucci,
   European Workshop on Software Defined Networking, '14


2. LAYSEE: Learn-As-You-SEE Traffic Classifier,
   A. Tongaonkar, M. Iliofotou, R. Keralapura,
   IEEE Infocom Demo, '13.

Invited Talks

1. Challenges in Network Application Identification,
   Alok Tongaonkar, R. Keralapura, A. Nucci,
   USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (co-located with USENIX NSDI), '12.


2. Automata-Driven Techniques for Managing Firewall Configuration,
   Alok Tongaonkar and R. Sekar,
   Configuration Workshop (co-located with USENIX LISA), '07.