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Publications:
Journals
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta and Yuting Zhang.
"Adversarial Exploits of End-Systems Adaptation Dynamics" . The Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 67, Issue 3, Pages 318-335, March 2007.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta.
"Exogenous-Loss Aware Traffic Management in Overlay Networks:
Toward Global Fairness" .The Computer Networks Journal (COMNET):
The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications
Networking, Volume 50, Issue 13, Pages 2331-2348, September
2006.
Conference and
Workshop Proceedings
- Mina Guirguis and Hideo Goto. "HELP:// Hypertext in-Emergency Leveraging Protocol".
In Proceedings of the 44th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09), Dresden, Germany, June 2009. (to appear).
- Mina Guirguis, Joshua Tharp, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Assessment of Vulnerability of Content Adaptation Mechanisms to RoQ Attacks".
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networks (ICN'09), Gosier, Guadeloupe, March 2009. (to appear).
- Mina Guirguis and Jason Valdez. "Masquerading a Wired Covert Channel into a Wireless-like Channel". In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Network Security and Privacy (NSP'08), Austin, Texas, December 2008.
- Christian McArthur and Mina Guirguis. "Stealthy IP Prefix Hijacking: Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew". In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Poster Session Paper, Seattle, Washington, August 2008.
- Jason Valdez and Mina Guirguis. "Liberating TCP: The Free and the Stunts".
In Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Networks (ICN'08), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
- Joshua Tharp and Mina Guirguis. "Reduction of Quality Attacks on Content Adaptation Mechanisms".
In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid'07), Poster Session Paper, Austin, Texas, September 2007.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta and Yuting
Zhang. "Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs".
In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE INFOCOM (INFOCOM'07), Anchorage,
Alaska, May 2007.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "On
the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks" . In
Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on
Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
- Yuting Zhang, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Ibrahim
Matta and Rich West. "Friendly
Virtual Machines: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for
Application Adaptation". In Proceedings of the
first ACM/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
(VEE'05), Chicago, Illinois, June 2005.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta and Yuting
Zhang. "Reduction
of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Internet End-Systems".
In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE INFOCOM (INFOCOM'05), Miami,
Florida, March, 2005.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Routing
Tradeoffs inside a d-dimensional Torus with applicability to
CAN". In Proceedings of the 1st International
Computer Engineering Conference New Technologies for the
Information Society (ICENCO'04), Cairo, Egypt, December 2004.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Bandwidth
Stealing via Link Targeted RoQ Attacks". In
Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on
Communication and Computer Networks (CCN'04), Cambridge,
Massachusetts, November 2004.
- Gali Diamant, Leonid Veytser, Ibrahim Matta, Azer
Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Liang Guo, Yuting Zhang and Sean
Chen. "itmBench:
Generalized API for Internet Traffic Managers".
In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Globecom Workshop on
Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication
Links and Networks (CAMAD'04), Dallas, Texas, November 2004.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Exploiting
the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet
Resources". In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE
International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'04),
Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta.
"Adaptation=Vulnerability: Under RoQ Attacks". In ACM SIGCOMM
2004, Poster Session Paper, Portland, Oregon, September 2004.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Niky Riga,
Gali Diamant and Yuting Zhang. "Providing
Soft Bandwidth Guarantees Using Elastic TCP-based Tunnels".
In proceedings of the 9th IEEE Symposium on Computer and
Communications (ISCC'2004), Alexandria, Egypt, July 2004.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "XQM:
eXogenous-loss aware Queue Management". In IEEE ICNP 2003, Poster Session Paper,
Atlanta, Georgia, November 2003.
Technical
Reports
- Jason Valdez and Mina Guirguis."Liberating TCP: The Free and the Stunts". TXSTATE-CS-TR-2008-10, January 2008.
- Yuting Zhang, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Ibrahim Matta
and Rich West. "Friendly
Virtual Machines: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for
Application Adaptation". BU-TR 2004-030, July
19, 2004.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Exploiting
the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet
Resources", BU-TR 2004-005, January 30, 2004.
- Gali Diamant, Leonid Veytser, Ibrahim Matta, Azer
Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Liang Guo, Yuting Zhang and Sean
Chen. "itmBench:
Generalized API for Internet Traffic Managers",
BU-TR 2003-032, December 16, 2003.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Niky Riga,
Gali Diamant and Yuting Zhang. "Providing
Soft Bandwidth Guarantees Using Elastic TCP-based Tunnels",
BU-TR 2003-028, December 2, 2003.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Exogenous-Loss
Awareness in Queue Management: Toward Global Fairness",
BU-TR 2003-026, December 2, 2003.
- Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "On
the Efficiency and Fairness of Transmission Control Loops: A
Case for Exogenous Losses", BU-TR 2003-013, May
16, 2003.
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Professional Activities:
- Program Committee Member for ICN 2009 and IEEE ICC 2009.
- Served as a session chair for the Denial of Service attacks session in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey.
- Served as a reviewer for
IEEE INFOCOM 2004, IEEE Networking 2004, IEEE ISCC 2004,
IEEE ICNP 2004, ACM SIGCOMM 2004, RTSS 2004, IEEE INFOCOM
2005, Mobiquitous 2005, IEEE INFOCOM 2006, IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking (ToN), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), and Computer Networks (COMNET).
- Volunteer in the
Organization Committee of the Forth Workshop on Applications
and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN 2004), Boston,
Massachusetts. Responsibilities included managing paper
submission through the Conference Manager (ConfMan) package
and helping at the registration desk.
- Member of the steering
committee for the NRG (Network Reading Group) in the
Computer Science Department at Boston University.
Responsibilities included, maintaining the NRG web-site,
recruiting speakers and topics for discussion as well as
maintaining the NRG mailing list.
- Participated in the
organization of open house events as a partnership between
Boston University Computer Science and members of the IT
industry. Responsibilities included, ordering supplies for
poster presenters, organizing the posters in the lab and
preparing handouts for visitors.
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Selected Talks:
- "Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs" 26th IEEE INFOCOM (INFOCOM'07), Anchorage,
Alaska, May 2007.
- "Reduction of Quality Attacks on Adaptation Mechanisms" Ph.D. Thesis Defense, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2006.
- "On the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks" IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
- "Reduction of Quality (RoQ)
Attacks on Internet End-Systems" 24th IEEE INFOCOM
(INFOCOM'05), Miami, Florida, March 2005.
- "Bandwidth Stealing via
Link Targeted RoQ Attacks" 2nd IASTED International
Conference on Communication and Computer Networks (CCN'04),
Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2004.
- "Exploiting the Transients
of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources" 12th
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
(ICNP'04), Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
- "Exploiting the Transients
of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources and
End-Systems" Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington,
September 2004.
- "Providing Soft Bandwidth
Guarantees Using Elastic TCP-based Tunnels" 9th IEEE
Symposium on Computer and Communications (ISCC'2004),
Alexandria, Egypt, July 2004.
- "Dynamics of Network
Resource Management" PhD Oral exam, Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts, June 2004.
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