Dr. Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

ETH Zürich
Dr. Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
Inst.f.Techn.Informatik u.Kommunik.Netze
ETZ G 90
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 632 70 04
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CV

• 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

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Research Areas

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

Selected Publications

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• Journal Publications

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

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

  Topolocator: Room-level Network-based Location Tracking in the Enterprise, New!
  Michel Zedler, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Dieter Gantenbein
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, under submission, 2009.

  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

  The Eternal Sunshine of the Sketch Data Structure pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Marc Stoecklin, Paul Hurley, Andreas Kind
  Elsevier Computer Networks, Dec. 2008

  On Cycles in AS Relationships pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, M. Angeles Serrano, Dmitri Krioukov
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Jul. 2008 (invited)

  Advanced Network Monitoring Brings Life to the Awareness Plane pdf
  Andreas Kind, Spyros Denazis, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Benoit Claise
  IEEE Communications Magazine, Oct. 2008

  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

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

  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

• Conference Papers

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

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

  Revealing the Autonomous System Taxonomy: The Machine Learning Approach pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Dmitri Krioukov, George Riley, and KC Claffy
  Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), Mar. 2006.
  Award paper

  Modeling Autonomous-System Relationships pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos and George Riley
  IEEE/ACM/SCS Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulations (PADS), May 2006.
  Best paper nominee

  Revisiting Internet AS-level Topology Discovery pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Dmitri Krioukov, and George Riley
  Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), Mar. 2005.

  Inferring AS Relationships: Dead End or Lively Beginning? pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Dmitri Krioukov, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy, and George Riley
  Workshop on Experimental Algorithms (WEA), May 2005.

  A BGP Attack against traffic engineering pdf
  Jintae Kim, Steven Ko, David Nicol, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, and George Riley
  IEEE/ACM/SCS Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Dec. 2004.

  Large-scale Simulation Models of BGP pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos and George Riley
  IEEE Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems Conference (MASCOTS), Oct. 2004.

  Creating Realistic BGP Models pdf
  Xenofontas Dimitropoulos and George Riley
  ΙΕΕΕ Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems Conference (MASCOTS), Oct. 2003.

• Technical Reports

  Anomaly Extraction in Backbone Networks using Association Rules pdf New!
  Daniela Brauckhoff, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Arno Wagner, and Kave Salamatian
  TIK Report Nr. 209, Nov. 2009.

  SEPIA: Security Through Private Information Aggregation pdf, New!
  Martin Burkhart, Mario Strasser, Dilip Many, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
  TIK Report Nr. 298, Feb. 2009.
  

Students

I am lucky to work with some great PhD candidates Martin Burkhart, Dominik Schatzmann, Daniela Brauckhoff, and Ilias Raftopoulos.

Service (selected)

Local Arrangements Chair, Springer Passive and Active Measurement Conference, 2010
Local Arrangements Chair, Cost Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA) Workshop, 2010
Program Co-chair, IEEE Symposium on Network Evolution and Routing Innovation, 2009