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Nick Feamster Assistant Professor Sloan Fellow Presidential Early Career (PECASE) Recipient Networking Group School of Computer Science College of Computing Georgia Tech Klaus Advanced Computing Building Room 3348 feamster - gatech . edu Office: + 1 404 385 1944 I do not check voice mail. Bookmarks CV (January 2009) Publications Bio |
NANO
Released! (March 2009)
Availability
Our paper on path splicing
appeared at ACM SIGCOMM 2008. A deployment is in progress.
Spam, Phishing, and Fast Flux
Fast flux: Our study of online scam hosting infrastructures received the
award paper at Passive and Active Measurement 2009. [Data]
Sender reputation: Our work on behavioral blacklisting for
spam filtering appeared at ACM CCS 2007.
Network-level behavior: Our paper on spam received
the best student paper award at SIGCOMM 2006.
Transparency and Troubleshooting
Network neutrality: Our work on detecting network neutrality
violations appeared at HotNets 2008 in October. NANO is available for download.
Configuration: Our work on evaluating "What-If" scenarios in network configurations
appeared at ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
Dynamics: Our work on
network-wide disruption detection appeared at SIGMETRICS 2007.
Accountability
Our work on improving Internet accountability appeared at ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
Our work on fast monitoring of
traffic subpopulations, which appeared at the ACM Internet
Measurement Conference 2008, is being deployed in military
networks.
My research develops tools, techniques, and protocols to improve the availability and performance of communications networks in the face of failures, misconfiguration, and malice. Simply put, I try to help network operators do their jobs better.
Please see this research statement
(Jan. 2009) for an overview of the research areas where my students
and I are most active.
Research area. My research focuses on networked computer systems, with a strong emphasis on (1) network operations; (2) network architecture and protocol design; (3) high performance (i.e., high availability, high throughput) wired and wireless networks; and (4) anti-censorship techniques and systems.
Goal. The primary goal of my research is to help network operators run their networks better, and to enable users of these networks to experience high availability and good end-to-end performance. I am strongly interested in tackling practical, real-world problems using a ``first principles'' approach, designing systems based on these principles, and implementing and deploying these systems in practice.
Approach. My research runs "from practice, to theory, back to practice". I look to the real world for inspiration and practical problems. I then design solutions to these problems that have provable properties and solid theoretical backing. Finally, I build and deploy real systems based on these solutions. This first principles approach means that I bring many "tools" to bear, from algorithms to economics to machine learning. I place a strong emphasis on transfer of these results back to practice: the resulting tools and algorithms have been adopted or applied in practice.
Masters Students
Bilal Anwer
Yogesh Mundada
Alums
Kaushik Bhandankar - Now at Google
Chris Kelly - Now at SugarCRM