Dr. Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

CV

[detailed]

• 2008 - now : Lecturer & Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich
• 2006 - 2008: Post-doc, IBM Research Zurich
• 2005 - 2006: Visiting scholar, CAIDA, UCSD
• 2001 - 2006: Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Interests

• Network traffic measurements
• Inter-domain Routing (BGP)
• Network simulation

Main Current and Past Projects

• Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Network Monitoring and Security (SEPIA)
• IBM Aurora Traffic Flow Collection, Profiling, and Anomaly Detection System
• CAIDA Autonomous-System Rank & Relationships Repository
• BGP++ (= GNU Zebra + ns2) parallel-distributed BGP simulation module

Selected Publications

[scholar] [dblp]

• Conference Papers

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  Detecting, Validating and Characterizing Computer Infections in the Wild pdf
  Elias Raftopoulos, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
  ACM SIGCOMM IMC Internet Measurement Conference, Nov. 2011.

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  Research Roadmap on Security Measurements pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
  SysSec Workshop, July 2011.

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  Digging into HTTPS: Flow-Based Classification of Webmail Traffic pdf
  Dominik Schatzmann, Wolfgang Muehlbauer, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
  ACM SIGCOMM IMC Internet Measurement Conference, Nov. 2010.

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  SEPIA: Privacy-Preserving Aggregation of Multi-Domain Network Events and Statistics pdf
  Martin Burkhart, Mario Strasser, Dilip Many, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
  USENIX Security, Aug. 2010.
  

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  Anomaly Extraction in Backbone Networks using Association Rules pdf, technical report
  Daniela Brauckhoff, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Arno Wagner, and Kave Salamatian
  ACM SIGCOMM IMC Internet Measurement Conference, Nov. 2009.

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  On the 95-percentile billing method pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Paul Hurley, Andreas Kind, and Marc Stoecklin
  Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Apr. 2009.

• Journal Publications

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  pcapIndex: An Index for Packet Traces with Legacy Compatibility pdf
  Francesco Fusco, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Michail Vlachos, Luca Deri
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Jan. 2012

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  Privacy-Preserving Distributed Network Troubleshooting – Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice pdf
  Martin Burkhart, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
  ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), vol. 14, no. 4, Dec. 2011

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  Graph Annotations in Modeling Complex Network Topologies pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Dmitri Krioukov, Amin Vahdat, George Riley
  ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), vol. 19, no. 4, Sep. 2009
  

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  Histogram-based Traffic Anomaly Detection pdf
  Andreas Kind, Marc Stoecklin, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 6, no. 2, June 2009

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  Probabilistic Lossy Counting: An Efficient Algorithm for Finding Heavy Hitters pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Paul Hurley, Andreas Kind
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Jan. 2008

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  AS Relationships: Inference and Validation pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Dmitri Krioukov, Marina Fomenkov, Bradley Huffaker, Young Hyun, kc claffy, George Riley
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Jan. 2007

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  Efficient Large-Scale BGP Simulations pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, George Riley
  Elsevier Computer Networks, Special Issue on Network Modeling and Simulation, Aug. 2006

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  The Internet AS-Level Topology: Three Data Sources and One Definitive Metric pdf
  Priya Mahadevan, Dmitri Krioukov, Marina Fomenkov, Bradley Huffaker, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, kc claffy, Amin Vahdat
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Jan. 2006

• Technical Reports

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  Anomaly Extraction in Backbone Networks using Association Rules pdf
  Daniela Brauckhoff, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Arno Wagner, and Kave Salamatian
  ETH Zurich, TIK Report Nr. 309, Nov. 2009.

Service (selected)

• PC Member ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2012
• Program Chair Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA) Workshop 2012
• PC Member ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2011
• Local Arrangements Chair Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference 2010

Students

I am lucky to currently work with some great PhD candidates Dominik Schatzmann, Ilias Raftopoulos, and Dilip Many.

Martin Burkhart successfully defended his PhD and joined Ergon Informatik AG as an IT Security Consultant!

Daniela Brauckhoff successfully defended her PhD and joined Credit Suisse!

Teaching

• Advanced Topics in Communication Networks 2009, 2010, 2011
• Open University of Cyprus Specialization in Networks and Communications 2009, 2010
• Open University of Cyprus Specialization in Computer Architecture and Computer Networks 2008