Martin Burkhart

Research Interests

• Anonymization and privacy issues with network traffic data
• Collaborative network security
• Network anomaly detection

Publications

The Role of Network Trace Anonymization under Attack
Martin Burkhart, Dominik Schatzmann, Brian Trammell, Elisa Boschi, Bernhard Plattner
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), January 2010. to appear.

Beyond Shannon: Characterizing Internet Traffic with Generalized Entropy Metrics
Bernhard Tellenbach, Martin Burkhart, Didier Sornette, Thomas Maillart
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Seoul, South Korea, April, 2009.
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Inferring Spammers in the Network Core
Dominik Schatzmann, Martin Burkhart, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Seoul, South Korea, April, 2009.
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The Risk-Utility Tradeoff for IP Address Truncation
Martin Burkhart, Daniela Brauckhoff, Martin May, Elisa Boschi
1st ACM Workshop on Network Data Anonymization (NDA), Fairfax, Virginia, USA, October, 2008.
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On the Utility of Anonymized Flow Traces for Anomaly Detection
Martin Burkhart, Daniela Brauckhoff, Martin May
19th ITC Specialist Seminar on Network Usage and Traffic (ITC SS), Berlin, Germany, October, 2008.
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Does Topology Control Reduce Interference?
Martin Burkhart, Pascal von Rickenbach, Roger Wattenhofer, Aaron Zollinger
5th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC), Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan, May 2004.
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Technical Reports

SEPIA: Security through Private Information Aggregation
Martin Burkhart, Mario Strasser, Dilip Many, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
TIK Report Nr. 298, February, 2009.
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Flow-level Characteristics of Spam and Ham
Dominik Schatzmann, Martin Burkhart, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
TIK Report Nr. 291, August, 2008.
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Student Theses

Offered

• See also offered projects of the group

Ongoing

• Privacy Challenges in Social Networks (@Google)

Completed

• Dilip Many: Privacy-Preserving Collaboration in Network Security (master thesis)
• Aarno Aukia: Secondary network activity and traffic of SMTP sender hosts (master thesis)
• David Sauter: Invasion of Privacy Using Fingerprinting Attacks (master thesis, PDF)
• René Bühlmann: Botnet Detection based on NetFlow Traces (master thesis)
• Lisa Barisic: Sharing of Traffic Data With Privacy Based on Multi-Party Computation (master thesis)
• Debora Battisti: Attacking Anonymization Schemes for Network Flow Data (internship)

Teaching Activities

AS 2009

• IT Security and Risk Management

Past

• IT Security and Risk Management (AS 2007/2008)
• Communication Networks (SS 2007/2008/2009)
• TI2 laboratory: development of exercise on network programming (SS 2007)

Projects

• Intersection: Designing and implementing an integrated security framework made of different subsystems and components providing network and infrastructure security.
• COST TMA: The main objective of this Action is to increase the quality and the impact of European research in the field of Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA).