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Publications

Michel Machado edited this page Jul 18, 2022 · 14 revisions

This is a collection of Gatekeeper related publications and presentations from our research group and third parties.

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Publications

Technical Reports

  • Cody Doucette, Michel Machado, Qiaobin Fu, and John W. Byers. "Circumventing Crossfire Attacks via Limited-Access Cloud Paths." Technical Report. 2021. (Paper)
  • Michel Machado, Cody Doucette, Qiaobin Fu, and John W. Byers. "Gatekeeper: The Design and Deployment of a DDoS Protection System." Technical Report. 2021. (Paper)

Ph.D. Theses

  • Cody Doucette. "An Architectural Approach for Mitigating Next-Generation Denial of Service Attacks." Boston University Ph.D. Thesis. 2021. (Paper)
    • Note: Cody's thesis provides an overview of Gatekeeper in Chapter 2 and shows how to define destination policies in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 shows how Gatekeeper can be used to combat large-scale link attacks.
  • Qiaobin Fu. "High-performance software package processing." Boston University Ph.D. Thesis. 2020. (Paper)
    • Note: Qiaobin's thesis presents Gatekeeper and our future work in Chapters 4 and 5, which should satisfy those interested in diving deep into Gatekeeper as well as its performance optimizations.

Presentations

  • Qiaobin Fu. "Gatekeeper: The First Open Source DDoS Protection System." APRICOT 2022. March 3rd, 2022. (Video) (Slides)
  • Cody Doucette. "Gatekeeper: First Open Source DDoS Protection System." NANOG 82. June 14th, 2021. (Video) (Slides)
  • Cody Doucette. "An Architectural Approach for Mitigating Next-Generation Denial of Service Attacks." Ph.D. Thesis Defense. December 3rd, 2020. (Video) (Slides)
  • Michel Machado. "Gatekeeper: First Open Source DDoS Protection System." GTER 49 | GTS 35. November 30th, 2020. (Video) (Slides)
    • Note: although the slides are in English, the presentation is in Portuguese.

Third-party presentations