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I work as a senior member of technical staff at VMware
starting from October 2007.
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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.
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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.
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| The Internet is not a safe place. Unsecured hosts can expect to be compromised within minutes of connecting to the Internet. However, while such threats to host systems are widely understood, it is less well appreciated that the network infrastructure itself is subject to constant attack as well. Indeed, through combinations of social engineering and exploitation of weak passwords, attackers have seized control over of thousands of routers. By compromising a router, an attacker may interpose on the traffic stream and manipulate it maliciously to attack others: selectively dropping, modifying or re-routing packets. This work is an important step in being able to tolerate such attacks on key network infrastructure components. This book is based on the author's doctoral research, which is recognized with the William C. Carter Award, in 2005: "The award is presented annually since 1997 to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his or her graduate dissertation research. The award is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and the IFIP WG-10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance." | |||||||||||||
Detecting Malicious Routers,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Keith
Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
University of California, San Diego,
September 2007.
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Dissertation(
pdf-2MB
),
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ACM Portal.
Order Hardcopy: UMI ProQuest.
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Database Performance Improvements and Best Practices for Large-Scale Environments,
Alper T. Mizrak, and Raju Angani,
VMware Technical Resource Center,
August 2012.
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Paper(pdf).
VMware vCenter Server Performance and Best Practices for vSphere 4.1,
Nikhil Bhatia, Chirag Bhatt, Lei Chai, Adarsh Jagadeeshwaran,
Alper T. Mizrak, and Xiaoyun Zhu,
VMware Technical Resource Center,
August 2010.
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Paper(pdf).
Detecting Malicious Packet Losses,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Keith Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, (Vol. 20, No. 2) pp. 191-206,
February 2009.
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Paper(pdf),
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Detecting Compromised Routers via Packet Forwarding Behavior,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Stefan Savage and
Keith Marzullo
Special issue of IEEE Network on
Internet Scalability: Properties and Evolution, (Vol. 22, No. 2) pp. 34-39,
March/April 2008.
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Paper(pdf),
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Detecting and Isolating Malicious Routers,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Yu-Chung Cheng,
Keith Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,
(Vol. 3, No. 3) pp. 230-244,
July/September 2006.
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Paper(pdf),
BibTex,
IEEE digital library.
Fatih: Detecting and Isolating Malicious Routers,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Yu-Chung Cheng,
Keith Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2005),
Yokohama, Japan, June 2005.
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Paper(pdf),
Slides(
pps),
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This paper has been recognized with
the William C. Carter Award.
Brief Announcement: Detecting Malicious Routers,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Keith Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2004),
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, July 2004.
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Paper(pdf,
ps),
Slides(pdf,
pps),
BibTex,
ACM Portal.
Fault-Tolerant Forwarding in the Face of Malicious Routers,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Keith Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
Workshop on the Future Directions in Distributed Computing,
Bertinoro, Italy, June 2004.
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Paper(pdf,
ps),
Slides(pdf,
pps),
BibTex,
CiteSeer.
Structured Superpeers: Leveraging Heterogeneity to Provide Constant-Time Lookup,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Yu-Chung Cheng,
Vineet Kumar and
Stefan Savage,
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications,
San Jose, CA, June 2003.
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Paper(pdf,
ps),
Slides(pdf,
pps),
BibTex,
CiteSeer.
Discovering Paths Traversed by Visitors in Web Server Access Logs,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Proceedings of the International NAISO Congress Information Science Innovations (ISI'2001),
Dubai, U.A.E., March 2001.
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Paper(pdf,
ps),
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Detecting Compromised Routers via Packet Forwarding Behavior,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Keith Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
UCSD Technical Report, CS2007-0899,
June 2007.
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Paper(pdf,
ps),
BibTex.
Extended version appeared in the Special issue of IEEE Network on
Internet Scalability: Properties and Evolution, (Vol. 22, No. 2) pp. 34-39, Mar/Apr 2008.
Detecting Malicious Packet Losses,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Keith Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
UCSD Technical Report, CS2007-0889,
April 2007.
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Paper(pdf,
ps),
BibTex.
Extended version is to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
Detecting Malicious Routers,
Alper T. Mizrak,
Keith Marzullo and
Stefan Savage,
UCSD Technical Report, CS2004-0789,
May 2004.
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Paper(pdf,
ps),
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CiteSeer.
Extended version appeared in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,
(Vol. 3, No. 3) pp. 230-244, Jul-Sep 2006.
