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Refereed:

  1. Illuminating Router Vendor Diversity Within Providers and Along Network Paths Geolocation
    Taha Albakour, Oliver Gasser, Robert Beverly, and Georgios Smaragdakis
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2023) Conference,
    Montreal, CA, Oct 2023 (to appear).

  2. IPvSeeYou: Exploiting Leaked Identifiers in IPv6 for Street-Level Geolocation
    Erik C. Rye and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P),
    San Francisco, CA, May 2023.

  3. Follow the Scent: Defeating IPv6 Prefix Rotation Privacy
    Erik C. Rye, Robert Beverly, and kc claffy
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2021) Conference,
    Virtual, November 2021.

  4. Third Time's Not a Charm: Exploiting SNMPv3 for Router Fingerprinting
    Taha Albakour, Oliver Gasser, Robert Beverly, and Georgios Smaragdakis
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2021) Conference,
    Virtual, November 2021.

  5. AS-level BGP Community Usage Classification
    Thomas Krenc, Robert Beverly, and Georgios Smaragdakis
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2021) Conference,
    Virtual, November 2021.

  6. IP Geolocation Database Stability and Implications for Network Research: A Reproducibility Study
    Matthieu Gouel, Kevin Vermeulen, Olivier Fourmaux, Timur Friedman, and Robert Beverly.
    Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA 2021) Conference,
    Virtual, September 2021 (to appear).

  7. Keep your Communities Clean: Exploring the Routing Message Impact of BGP Communities
    Thomas Krenc, Robert Beverly, and Georgios Smaragdakis
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM (CoNEXT 2020) Conference,
    Barcelona, ES, December 2020.

  8. Reading In-Between the Lines: An Analysis of Dissenter
    Erik C. Rye, Jeremy Blackburn, and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2020) Conference,
    Pittsburgh, PA, October 2020.

  9. Discovering the IPv6 Network Edge
    Erik C. Rye and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2020) Conference,
    Eugene, OR, March 2020.

  10. Diamond-Miner: Comprehensive Discovery of the Internet's Topology Diamonds
    Kevin Vermeulen, Justin Rohrer, Robert Beverly, Olivier Fourmaux, and Timur Friedman.
    Proceedings of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2020),
    Santa Clara, CA, February 2020.

  11. Network Hygiene, Incentives, and Regulation: Deployment of Source Address Validation in the Internet
    Matthew Luckie, Robert Beverly, Ryan Koga, Ken Keys, Joshua A. Kroll, and k claffy.
    Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2019),
    London, UK, November 2019.

  12. Sundials in the Shade: An Internet-wide Perspective on ICMP Timestamps
    Erik C. Rye and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2019) Conference,
    Puerto Varas, CL, March 2019.

  13. In the IP of the Beholder: Strategies for Active IPv6 Topology Discovery
    Robert Beverly, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, David Plonka, and Justin P. Rohrer
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2018) Conference,
    Boston, MA, November 2018.

  14. BGP Communities: Even more Worms in the Routing Can
    Florian Streibelt, Franziska Lichtblau, Robert Beverly, Anja Feldmann, Cristel Pelsser, Georgios Smaragdakis, and Randy Bush
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2018) Conference,
    Boston, MA, November 2018.

  15. The Impact of Router Outages on the AS-level Internet
    Matthew Luckie and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of ACM (SIGCOMM 2017) Conference,
    Los Angeles, CA, August 2017.

  16. Principles for Measurability in Protocol Design
    Mark Allman, Robert Beverly, and Brian Trammell.
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR),
    Vol. 47, Issue 2, April 2017.

  17. Decomposition of MAC Address Structure for Granular Device Inference
    Jeremy Martin, Erik Rye, and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Computer Security Applications (ACSAC) Conference,
    Los Angeles, CA, December 2016.

  18. Yarrp'ing the Internet: Randomized High-Speed Active Topology Discovery
    Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2016) Conference,
    Santa Monica, CA, November 2016.

  19. Empirical Study of Router IPv6 Interface Address Distributions
    Justin Rohrer, Blake LaFever, and Robert Beverly
    IEEE Internet Computing (Special Issue on Measuring the Internet),
    July/August 2016.

  20. Revisiting AS-Level Graph Reduction
    Erik Rye, Justin Rohrer, and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of the IEEE Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2016) Workshop,
    San Francisco, CA, April 2016.

  21. Resilience of Deployed TCP to Blind Off-Path Attacks
    Matthew Luckie, Robert Beverly, Tiange Wu, Mark Allman, and kc claffy
    Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2015) Conference,
    Tokyo, JP, October 2015 (Awarded Best Paper).

  22. Experience in using Mechanical Turk for Network Measurement
    Gokay Huz, Steven Bauer, kc claffy, and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big Internet Data (C2BID 2015),
    London, UK, August 2015.

  23. Measuring and Characterizing IPv6 Router Availability
    Robert Beverly, Matthew Luckie, Lorenza Mosley, and kc claffy
    Proceedings of the Sixteenth Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2015) Conference,
    New York, NY, March 2015.

  24. Server Siblings: Identifying Shared IPv4/IPv6 Infrastructure via Active Fingerprinting
    Robert Beverly and Arthur Berger
    Proceedings of the Sixteenth Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2015) Conference,
    New York, NY, March 2015.

  25. Uncovering Network Tarpits with Degreaser
    Lance Alt, Robert Beverly, and Alberto Dainotti
    Proceedings of Annual Computer Security Applications (ACSAC) Conference,
    New Orleans, LA, December 2014.

  26. A Middlebox-Cooperative TCP for a non End-to-End Internet
    Ryan Craven, Robert Beverly, and Mark Allman
    Proceedings of ACM (SIGCOMM 2014) Conference,
    Chicago, IL, August 2014.

  27. Ingress Point Spreading: A New Primitive for Adaptive Active Network Mapping
    Guillermo Baltra, Robert Beverly, and Geoffrey G. Xie
    Proceedings of the Fifteenth Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2014) Conference,
    Los Angeles, CA, March 2014.

  28. Speedtrap: Internet-Scale IPv6 Alias Resolution
    Matthew Luckie, Robert Beverly, William Brinkmeyer, and kc claffy
    Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2013) Conference,
    Barcelona, ES, October 2013.

  29. Internet Nameserver IPv4 and IPv6 Address Relationships
    Arthur Berger, Nicholas Weaver, Robert Beverly, and Larry Campbell
    Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement (IMC 2013) Conference,
    Barcelona, ES, October 2013.

  30. A Technique for Network Topology Deception
    Samuel Trassare, Robert Beverly, and David Alderson
    Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2013),
    San Diego, CA, November 2013.

  31. Correlating GSM and 802.11 Hardware Identifiers
    Jeremy Martin, Danny Rhame, Robert Beverly, and John McEachen
    Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2013),
    San Diego, CA, November 2013.

  32. IPv6 Alias Resolution via Induced Fragmentation
    Robert Beverly, William Brinkmeyer, Matthew Luckie, and Justin P. Rohrer
    Proceedings of the 14th Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2013) Conference,
    Hong Kong, CN, March 2013 (Best Paper Finalist).

  33. Findings and Implications from Data Mining the IMC Review Process
    Robert Beverly and Mark Allman.
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR),
    January 2013.

  34. Auto-learning of SMTP TCP Transport-Layer Features for Spam and Abusive Message Detection
    Georgios Kakavelakis, Robert Beverly, and Joel Young
    Proceedings of the 25th USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2011),
    Boston, MA, December 2011.

  35. Measuring the State of ECN Readiness in Servers, Clients, and Routers
    Steven Bauer, Robert Beverly, and Arthur Berger.
    Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2011),
    Berlin, DE, November 2011.

  36. Building and Evaluating a k-Resilient Mobile Distributed File System Resistant to Device Compromise
    Scott Huchton, Geoffrey Xie, and Robert Beverly
    Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2011),
    Baltimore, MD, November 2011 (Awarded Best Paper).

  37. Forensic Carving of Network Packets and Associated Data Structures
    Robert Beverly, Simson Garfinkel, and Greg Cardwell.
    Proceedings of the 11th Digital Forensics Conference (DFRWS 2011),
    New Orleans, LA, August 2011 (Awarded Best Paper).

  38. A Position Paper on Data Sovereignty: The Importance of Geolocating Data in the Cloud
    Zachary N. J. Peterson, Mark Gondree, and Robert Beverly.
    Proceedings of USENIX HotCloud 2011,
    Portland, OR, June 2011.

  39. Primitives for Active Internet Topology Mapping: Toward High-Frequency Characterization
    Robert Beverly, Arthur Berger, and Geoffrey Xie.
    Proceedings of the Tenth ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2010),
    Sydney, AU, November 2010.

  40. Toward Anonymity in Delay Tolerant Networks: Threshold Pivot Scheme
    Rob Jansen and Robert Beverly.
    Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2010),
    San Jose, CA, October 2010.

  41. Understanding the Efficacy of Deployed Internet Source Address Validation Filtering
    Robert Beverly, Arthur Berger, Young Hyun, and k claffy.
    Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2009),
    Chicago, IL, November 2009.

  42. A Human Factors Approach to Spam Filtering
    Robert Beverly.
    Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2009),
    Mountain View, CA, July 2009.

  43. An Internet Protocol Address Clustering Algorithm
    Robert Beverly and Karen Sollins
    Proceedings of USENIX Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML 2008) Workshop,
    San Diego, CA, December 2008.

  44. Exploiting Transport-Level Characteristics of Spam
    Robert Beverly and Karen Sollins.
    Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2008),
    Mountain View, CA, August 2008.

  45. The Internet's Not a Big Truck: Toward Quantifying Network Neutrality
    Robert Beverly, Steven Bauer and Arthur Berger.
    Proceedings of the 8th Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2007) Conference,
    Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, April 2007.

  46. Machine Learning for Efficient Neighbor Selection in Unstructured P2P Networks
    Robert Beverly and Mike Afergan.
    Proceedings of USENIX Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML 2007) Workshop,
    Cambridge, MA, April 2007.

  47. SVM Learning of IP Address Structure for Latency Prediction
    Robert Beverly, Karen Sollins and Arthur Berger.
    SIGCOMM 2006 Workshop on Mining Network Data (Minenet-06),
    Pisa, Italy, September 2006.

  48. Assessing the assumptions underlying mechanism design for the Internet
    Steven Bauer, Peyman Faratin and Robert Beverly.
    Proceedings of First Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon),
    Ann Arbor, MI, June 2006.

  49. The Spoofer Project: Inferring the Extent of Source Address Filtering on the Internet
    Robert Beverly and Steven Bauer.
    Proceedings of USENIX Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) Workshop,
    pp. 53-59, Cambridge, MA, July 2005.

  50. The State of the Email Address
    Mike Afergan and Robert Beverly.
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Measuring the Internet's Vital Statistics (CCR- IVS),
    Volume 35, Number 1: January 2005.

  51. A Robust Classifier for Passive TCP/IP Fingerprinting
    Robert Beverly.
    Proceedings of the 5th Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2004) Workshop,
    pp. 158-167, Juan-les-Pins, France, April 2004.

  52. Wide-Area Multicast Traffic Characterization (Extended Version)
    Robert Beverly and kc claffy.
    Abridged version appears in: IEEE Network special issue on Multicasting: An Enabling Technology (IEEE Network),
    January/February 2003.

  53. RTG: A Scalable SNMP Statistics Architecture for Service Providers
    Robert Beverly.
    Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2002),
    pp. 167-174, Philadelphia, PA, November 2002.

Other:

  1. Customer Management DNS Resource Records
    Erik Rye and Robert Beverly
    IETF RFC 8567,
    April 2019.

  2. On the Potential for Mining Unstructured Public Data to Aid Network Intelligence
    Robert Beverly and Lance Alt
    Annual Computer Security Applications (ACSAC) Conference (Poster),
    New Orleans, LA, December 2014.

  3. Adversarial TCP: An Offensive TCP Stack to Penalize Abusive Connections
    Ryan Craven, Kristina Foster, and Robert Beverly
    USENIX LISA Poster,
    Boston, MA, December 2011.

  4. New Approaches to Characterizing Scam-Hosting Connectivity
    Le Nolan, Robert Beverly, and Joel Young
    USENIX Security Poster,
    San Francisco, CA, August 2011.

  5. The 2nd Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS-2) Report
    kc claffy, Emile Aben, Jordan Auge, Robert Beverly, Fabian Bustamante, Benoit Donnet, Timur Friedman, Marina Fomenkov, Peter Haga, Matthew Luckie, Yuval Shavitt.
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, (CCR),
    Volume 40, Number 5: October 2010.

  6. The Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS) Report
    kc claffy, Marina Fomenkov, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Robert Beverly, Beverly A. Cox, Matthew Luckie
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, (CCR),
    Volume 39, Number 5: October 2009.

  7. Exploiting Transport-Level Characteristics of Spam
    Robert Beverly and Karen Sollins
    MIT-CSAIL-TR-2008-008

  8. Tracefilter: A Tool for Locating Network Source Address Validation Filters
    Robert Beverly and Steven Bauer
    USENIX Security Poster,
    Boston, MA, August 2007.
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