Alberto Dainotti

Research Scientist
office: San Diego Supercomputer Center, room 307
phone: (858) 534-9249
email: alberto AT caida DOT org
address: San Diego Supercomputer Center
              University of California San Diego
              9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505
              La Jolla, CA 92093-0505

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Updates

new [Dec 2012/Mar 2013] USENIX published the video of my invited talk at USENIX LISA '12 and also a report of it in USENIX Login magazine

new [Dec 2012] Check out our blog post on observing the Syrian Internet blackout from the UCSD Network Telescope

new [Sep 2012] Our research activity on Internet outages has been covered in September issue of Communications of the ACM Magazine (link)
..more press coverage also at Heise Online (if you can read Deutsch)

new [Jul 2012] Our paper ``Analysis of a "/0" Stealth Scan from a Botnet'' has been accepted at IMC 2012

[Jun 2012] Our work on exploiting malware traffic pollution for detecting and analyzing Internet outages has been awarded as one of the three best papers in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review of the past 12 months. I will present it in a special session at SIGCOMM 2012

[Jun 2012] I've been awarded the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2012 (link)

[Mar 2012] We've been "press-released" :) And covered by the WSJ blog, among others

[Jan 2012] Our work on exploiting malware traffic pollution for detecting and analyzing Internet outages has been published on ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 2012

[Jan 2012] Our paper entitled "Issues and Future Directions in Traffic Classification" has been published on IEEE Network, January 2012

[Nov 2011] Our work on the Internet "kill switch" in Libya and Egypt has been presented at IMC 2011, Berlin, November 2012

Short Bio

Alberto Dainotti is Research Scientist at CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis), University of California San Diego, USA. In 2008 he received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Systems at the Department of Computer Engineering and Systems of University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy. He co-authored several peer-reviewed papers published at conferences and in scientific journals in the field of Internet measurement, traffic analysis, and network security. He serves for the European Commission as an independent reviewer/evaluator of projects and project proposals co-funded by the EC.

Research Interests

Internet Measurement, Traffic Analysis, Traffic Classification, Network Security

Publications

Gaining Insight into AS-level Outages through Analysis of Internet Background Radiation
K. Benson, A. Dainotti, K. C. Claffy, E. Aben
International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'13, co-located with INFOCOM 2013) - April 2013, Turin (Italy)

A Coordinated View of the Temporal Evolution of Large-scale Internet Events
A. King. B. Huffaker, A. Dainotti, K. C. Claffy
First IMC Workshop on Internet Visualization (WIV 2012) - colocated with ACM IMC 2012

Analysis of a "/0" Stealth Scan from a Botnet
A. Dainotti, A. King, K. C. Claffy, F. Papale, A. Pescapè
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference IMC 2012

Analysis of Internet-wide Probing using Darknets
A. Dainotti, A. King, K. C. Claffy
ACM 2012 Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS'12) - colocated with ACM CCS 2012

A tool for the generation of realistic network workload for emerging networking scenarios
A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè
Computer Networks (Elsevier). In press

Extracting Benefit from Harm: Using Malware Pollution to Analyze the Impact of Political and Geophysical Events on the Internet (pdf)
A. Dainotti, R. Amman, E. Aben, K. C. Claffy
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 2012
Awarded as one of top-three papers in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review in 2012

Issues and Future Directions in Traffic Classification (pdf)
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, K. C. Claffy,
IEEE Network, January 2012

Traffic Classification through Joint Distributions of Packet-level Statistics
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, H. Kim
IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 - December 2011, Houston (TX, USA)

Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship (pdf)
A. Dainotti, C. Squarcella, E. Aben, K. C. Claffy, M. Chiesa, M. Russo, A. Pescapè,
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference IMC 2011 - November 2011, Berlin (Germany)
Awarded the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2012

Using a Behaviour Knowledge Space Approach for Detecting Unknown IP Traffic Flows, 10th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, C. Sansone, A. Quintavalle
MCS 2011 - June 2011, Napoli (Italy)

Early Classification of Network Traffic through Multi-Classification
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, C. Sansone
International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'11) - April 2011, Vienna (Austria)

Do You Trust Your Software-based Traffic Generator?
A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè,
IEEE Communications Magazine, September 2010, pp. 158-165

PortLoad: taking the best of two worlds in traffic classification
G. Aceto, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè
IEEE INFOCOM 2010 - WIP Track - March 2010, San Diego (CA, USA)

K-dimensional trees for continuous traffic classification
V. Carela-Espanol, P. Barlet-Ros, M. Solé-Simò, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè
International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'10) @ PAM 2010 - April 2010, Zurich (Switzerland)

Identification of traffic flows hiding behind TCP port 80
A. Dainotti, F. Gargiulo, L. Kuncheva, A. Pescapè, C. Sansone
IEEE ICC 2010 - May 2010, Capetown (South Africa)

Combining Multiple Traffic Classification Techniques within a Single Platform
G. Aceto, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, F. Gargiulo, A. Pescapè C. Sansone
Book chapter in RECIPE Robust and Efficient traffic Classification in IP nEtworks, Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, pp.1-16, ISBN:978-88-833-8081-5, Napoli, Italy, 2009

TIE: a Community-Oriented Traffic Classification Platform
A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè
International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'09) @ IFIP Networking 2009 - May 2009, Aachen (Germany)

Traffic Analysis of Peer-to-Peer IPTV Communities
T. Silverston, O. Fourmaux, A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapé, G. Ventre, K. Salamatian,
Computer Networks (Elsevier). Volume 53, Issue 4, 18 March 2009, Pages 470-484.

Classification of Network Traffic via Packet-Level Hidden Markov Models
A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi
IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - Dec 2008, New Orleans (LA, USA)

Internet traffic modeling by means of Hidden Markov Models
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapé, P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre
Computer Networks (Elsevier). Volume 52, Issue 14, 9 October 2008, Pages 2645-2662

Do You Know What You Are Generating?
A. Dainotti, A. Botta, A. Pescapè
Poster at ACM Co-Next 2007 Student Workshop. 2-pages abstract published in Co-Next '07 Proceedings

Multi-protocol and multi-platform traffic generation and measurement
A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè
Demo at INFOCOM 2007 DEMO Session, May 2007, Anchorage (Alaska, USA)

A Cascade Architecture for DoS Attacks Detection Based on the Wavelet Transform
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre
Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 17, Issue 6, pp. 945-968

Worm Traffic Analysis and Characterization
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre
IEEE ICC 2007 - Jun 2007, Glasgow (Scotland)

Reducing Network Traffic Data Sets
A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre
IEEE ICC 2007 - Jun 2007, Glasgow (Scotland)

SCTP performance evaluation over Heterogeneous Networks
A. Dainotti, S. Loreto, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) , Vol 19, Issue 8 (June 2007), Special Issue on Performance Analysis and Enhancements of Wireless Networks. pp. 1207 - 1218.

Searching for Invariants in Network Games Traffic
A. Dainotti, A. Botta, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre
Poster at ACM Co-Next 2006 Student Workshop. 2-pages abstract published in Co-Next '06 Proceedings

Wavelet-based Detection of DoS Attacks
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre,
2006 IEEE GLOBECOM - Nov 2006, San Francisco (CA, USA)

An HMM Approach to Internet Traffic Modeling
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi, G. Iannello, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre
2006 IEEE GLOBECOM - Nov 2006, San Francisco (CA, USA)

A Packet-level Characterization of Network Traffic
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre,
11th IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2006) - Trento (Italy), June 2006

A packet-level model of Starcraft traffic
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre,
IEEE Second International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems 2005 (co-located with IEEE Mobiquitous 2005) pp. 244-253, 0-7695-2417-6/05 - July 2005, San Diego (CA, USA)

Other Professional Activities

Independent reviewer / evaluator of projects and project proposals for the European Commission (FP7 ICT)
TPC member for: ACM IMC 2013, IEEE WNM 2013, IEEE ICNC 2013, IEEE Globecom 2012, TMA 2013 2012, SERSC/IEEE CSA 2008, IEEE ICC 2007
Reviewer for: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Networks (Elsevier), Computer Communications (Elsevier), International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), IEEE ICC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Globecom, IEEE LCN WNM, IEEE ICN, IEEE ICNS, IEEE NGMAST, IEEE ECUMN, IEEE ISWPC, IEEE Spects, ACM CoNext, ...