Kamil Sarac

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75080
 

Office: ECS South 4.207
Phone: (972) 883 2337
Fax: (972) 883 2349
Email: ksarac .(at). utdallas.edu		  

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara (2002)		  
 

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Research Interests: Computer networks; network and service monitoring and Internet measurements; overlay networks; network security and denial-of-service defense; broadcast in ad hoc networks; group communication and IP multicast.

Projects:

  1. iToM: Internet Topology Mapper Project. Check it out at http://itom.utdallas.edu
  2. Automatic Multicast without Explicit Tunnels (AMT) implementation and port for Linux. Sponsored by Cisco Systems. Check it out at http://www.cs.utdallas.edu/amt/
  3. Sdr-monitor project (completed): An application layer multicast reachability monitoring system. Check it out at http://www.nmsl.cs.ucsb.edu/sdr- monitor/

Journal Publications:

  1. Adaptive Information Coding for Secure and Reliable Wireless Telesurgery Communications, M.E. Tozal, Y. Wang, E. Al-Shaer, K. Sarac, B. Thuraisingham, B-T. Chu, MONET, (to appear).
  2. Polynomial Time Solution to Minimum Forwarding Set Problem in Wireless Networks under Disk Coverage Model, M. Baysan, K. Sarac, and R. Chandrasekaran, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, (to appear).
  3. PalmTree: An IP Alias Resolution Algorithm with Linear Probing Complexity, M.E. Tozal and K. Sarac, Computer Communications, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 658-669, April 2011.
  4. A Survey on the Design, Applications and Enhancements of Application Layer Overlay Network, J. Kurian and K. Sarac, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol.43, No.1, pp.5.1-5.34, November 2010.
  5. Resolving IP Aliases in Building Traceroute-Based Internet Maps, M. Gunes and K. Sarac,  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp.1738-1751, December 2009.
  6. A Polynomial Time Solution to Minimum Forwarding Set Problem in Wireless Networks under Unit Disk Coverage Model, M. Baysan, K. Sarac, R. Chandrasekaran, and S. Bereg, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 913-924, July 2009.
  7. Defending Network-Based Services Against Denial of Service Attacks, J. Kurian and K. Sarac, International Journal on Network Security, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 186-200, September 2009.
  8. Toward a Practical Packet Marking Approach for IP Traceback, C. Gong and K. Sarac, International Journal of Network Security, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 271-281, March 2009.
  9. A More Practical Approach for Single-Packet IP Traceback using Packet Logging and Marking, C. Gong and K. Sarac, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.19, No.10, pp.1310-1324, October 2008.
  10. Variable Power Broadcast using Local Information in Ad Hoc Networks, with Avinash Chiganmi, Mehmet Baysan, and Ravi Prakash, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol.6, No.5, pp. 675-695, July 2008.
  11. A Measurement Study on Overhead Distribution of Value-Added Internet Services, with Mehmet H. Gunes, Sevcan Bilir and Turgay Korkmaz, Computer Networks Journal, Vol.51, No.14, pp.4153-4173, October 2007.
  12. Single Packet IP  Traceback in AS-Level Partial Deployment Scenario, with Turgay Korkmaz, Chao Gong, and Sandra G. Dykes, International Journal on Security and Networks, Vol.2, No.1/2, pp. 95-108, 2007.
  13. Load-Balanced Agent Activation for Value-Added Network Services, with Chao Gong, Ovidiu Daescu, Balaji Raghavachari, and Raja Jothi, Computer Communications Journal, Vol.29, No.11, pp.1905-1916, July 2006.
  14. Practical Utilities for Monitoring Multicast Service Availability, with Pavan Namburi and Kevin C. Almeroth, Computer Communications Journal, Vol.29, No.10,pp.1675-1686, June 2006.
  15. Monitoring IP Multicast in the Internet: Recent Advances and Existing Challenges, with Kevin Almeroth, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol.43, Issue.10, pp.85-91, October 2005.
  16. Application Layer Reachability Monitoring for IP Multicast, with Kevin C. Almeroth,  Computer Networks Journal, Vol.48, No.2, pp.195-213, June 2005.
  17. A Distributed Approach for Monitoring Multicast Service Availability, with K. Almeroth, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol.12, No.3, pp.327-348, September 2004.
  18. Tracetree: A Scalable Mechanism to Discover Multicast Tree Topologies in the Internet, with K. Almeroth, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.12, No.5, pp.795-808, October 2004.
  19. Supporting Multicast Deployment Efforts: A Survey of Tools for Multicast Monitoring, with K. Almeroth,   Journal of High Speed Networks, Vol.9, No.3-4, pp.191-211, 2000.
  20. DFT Techniques for Size Estimation of Database Join Operations, with O. Egecioglu and A. El-Abbadi, International Journal of Foundation of Computer Science, Vol.10, No.1, pp.81-102, 1999.

Conference Publications:

  1. Estimating Network Layer Subnet Characteristics via Statistical Sampling, M.E.  Tozal and K. Sarac, IFIP Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012.
  2. Subnet Level Network Topology Mapping, M.E. Tozal and K. Sarac, IEEE IPCCC, Orlando, Florida, November 2011.
  3. A Security Framework for Service Overlay Networks: Operating in the Presence of Compromised Nodes, J. Kurian and K. Sarac, Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Dallas, Texas, December 2011.
  4. Adaptive Information Coding for Secure and Reliable Wireless Telesurgery Communication, M.E. Tozal, Y. Wang, E. Al-Shaer, K. Sarac, B. Thuraisingham, B.-T. Chu, The First International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Networking Systems, Shanghai, China, April 15, 2011.
  5. Relay Assignment in AMT-based Multicast Content Distribution, S. Patel, K. Sarac, R. Chandrasekaran, T. Korkmaz, N. Mittal, 9th Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 2011.
  6. TraceNET: An Internet Topology Data Collector, M.E. Tozal and K. Sarac, ACM IMC 2010, Melbourne, Australia, November 2010.
  7. SKAIT: A Parameterized Key Assignment Scheme for Wireless Networks, R. Novales, N. Mittal, and K. Sarac, International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2010.
  8. Characterizing Link and Path Reliability in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks, T. Korkmaz and K. Sarac, IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMOB), Niagara Falls, Canada, October, 2010.
  9. ODON: An On-Demand Security Overlay for Mission-Critical Applications, J. Kurian, A. Kulkarni, H. Vu, and K. Sarac, IEEE ICCCN Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2009.
  10. Analyzing Router Responsiveness to Measurement Probes, M. Gunes and K. Sarac, Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Seoul, Korea, April 2009.
  11. A SIP Security Testing Framework, H. Srinivasan and K. Sarac, IEEE CCNC, Security for Consumer Electronics Communications Track, Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 2009.
  12. Wormeros: A New Framework for Defending Against Wormhole Attacks on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, with H. Vu, A. Kulkarni, N. Mittal, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, pp. Dallas, TX, USA, October, 2008.
  13. A Security Framework for Service Overlay Networks: Access Control, with Jinu Kurian, Proceedings of IEEE BroadNETs Conference, pp. , London, UK, September 2008.
  14. Resolving Anonymous Routers in Internet Topology Measurement Studies, with Mehmet Gunes, IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, AZ, USA, April 15-17, 2008.
  15. Provider Provisioned Overlay Networks and  Their Utility in DoS Defense, with Jinu Kurian, IEEE Globecom, Washington DC, USA, November 26-30, 2007.
  16. Inferring Subnets in Router-Level Topology Collection Studies, with Mehmet Gunes, Internet Measurement Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, October 24-26, 2007.
  17. Importance of IP Alias Resolution in Sampling Internet Topologies, with Mehmet Gunes, Global Internet Symposium 2007, Anchorage, AK, USA, May 11, 2007.
  18. Impact of Alias Resolution in traceroute-based Sample Network Topologies, with Mehmet Gunes and Nicolas Nielsen, Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, April 5-6, 2007.
  19. Defending Network-Based Services Against Denial of Service Attacks, with Jinu Kurian and Kevin Almeroth, IEEE ICCCN Conference, Arlington, VA, USA, October 9-12, 2006.
  20. Toward A More Practical Marking Scheme for IP Traceback, with Chao Gong, Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (BroadNETS), San Jose, CA, USA, October 2006.
  21. FONet: A Federated Overlay Network for DoS Defense in the Internet (A Position Paper), with Jinu Kurian, Global Internet Symposium, Barcelona, Catalunya, SPAIN, April 28-29, 2006.
  22. Variable Power Broadcasting in Ad Hoc Networks, with Avinash Chiganmi and Ravi Prakash, IEEE International Conference on Communication, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, Istanbul, TURKEY, June 2006.
  23. Analytical IP Alias Resolution, with Mehmet Gunes, IEEE International Conference on Communication, General Symposium, Istanbul, TURKEY, June 2006.
  24. Cluster Based Approaches for End-to-End Complete Feedback Collection in Multicast, with Mehmet Baysan, IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, Phoenix, AZ, USA, April 10-12, 2006.
  25. Single Packet IP Traceback in AS-level Partial Deployment Scenario, with Chao Gong, Trinh Le, and Turgay Korkmaz, IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA, November 28 – December 2, 2005.
  26. Intersection Characteristics of End-to-End Internet Paths and Trees, with Sevcan Bilir and Turgay Korkmaz, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Boston, MA, USA, November 6-9, 2005.
  27. FONet: A Federated Overlay Network for DoS Defense in the Internet, with Jinu Kurian, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Boston, MA, USA, November 6-9, 2005, (a poster presentation).
  28. Facilitating Robust Multicast Group Management, with Avijit Mazumder and Kevin Almeroth, International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Skamania, WA, USA, June 2005.
  29. IP Traceback Based on Packet Marking and Logging, with Chao Gong, IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), Seoul, Korea, May 16-20, 2005.
  30. Load Balancing for Reliable Multicast, with Chao Gong, Raja Jorhi, Ovidiu Daescu, and Balaji Raghavachari, 3rd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT), pp.86-91, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, USA, November 22-24, 2004.
  31. SSM-Ping: A Ping Utility for Source Specific Multicast, with Pavan Namburi and Kevin C. Almeroth, 3rd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT), pp.63-68, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, USA, November 22-24, 2004.
  32. Improving Energy Savings in Power Adaptive Broadcasting in MANETs, with Mehmet Baysan and Saipriya Gowdamachandran, BroadNets Wireless Networking Symposium, pp.745-747, San Jose, CA, USA, October 25-29, 2004.
  33. End User Level Classification of Multicast Reachability Problems, with Pavan Namburi, Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON), pp.10-15, San Diego, CA, USA, October 3, 2004.
  34. Multicast Session Announcements on top of SSM, with P. Namburi, IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), Vol.3, pp.1446-1450, Paris, France, June 2004.
  35. Optimal Placement of NAK Suppressing Agents for Reliable Multicast: A Partial Deployment Case, with O. Daescu, R. Jothi,  and B. Raghavachari, Proc. 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp.334-338, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2004.
  36. SSM Extensions: Network Layer Support for Multiple Senders in SSM, with P. Namburi and K. Almeroth, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), pp.74-80, October 2003, Dallas, TX.
  37. SSM-Based Receiver-Controlled Communication in the Internet, South Central Information Security Symposium, pp.1, Denton, TX, April 2003.
  38. Providing Scalable Many-to-One Feedback in Multicast Reachability Monitoring Systems,  with K. Almeroth, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS), pp.256-270, Chicago, IL, October 2001.
  39. Scalable Techniques for Discovering Multicast Tree Topology, with K. Almeroth, International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), pp.73-81, Port Jefferson, New York, USA, June 2001.
  40. Monitoring Reachability in the Global Multicast Infrastructure, with K. Almeroth, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pp.141-150, Osaka, JAPAN, November 2000. (see SDR Monitor Home Page)
  41. Supporting the Need for Inter-Domain Multicast Reachability,  with K. Almeroth, International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), pp.230-239, Chapel Hill, NC,  June 2000.
  42. Iterated DFT Based Techniques for Join-Size Estimation, with O. Egecioglu and A. El Abbadi, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp.348-355, Bethesda, MD, November 1998.

 Other Publications:

  1. Defending Multicast Against State Overload Attacks, with Jinu Kurian, South Central Information Security Symposium (SCISS), pp., Houston, TX, USA, April, 2006.
  2. Receiver-Controlled Communication: A Silver Bullet to DoS Attacks?, with Chao Gong, IEEE Emerging Technologies Conference (ETC), Richardson, TX, USA, September 9-10, 2005.
  3. Log-based IP Traceback in AS-Level Partial Deployment Scenario, with Chao Gong, Trinh Le, and Turgay Korkmaz, South Central Information Security Symposium (SCISS), pp., Austin, TX, USA, April, 2005.
  4. IP Traceback with Packet Marking and Logging, with Chao Gong, South Central Information Security Symposium (SCISS), pp.1, Houston, TX, USA, April 24, 2004.
  5. MPing: A Ping Utility for IP Multicast,  with K. Almeroth, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Draft, January 2004.
  6. RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports (RTCP XR), with T. Friedman, R. Caceres, A. Clark, K. Almeroth, R. Cole, N. Duffield, K. Hedayat, M. Westerlund, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), RFC 3611, November 2003.
  7. Monitoring Multicast Service in the Internet, IEEE Emerging Telecommunication Technologies Conference (ETTC), pp.  Dallas, TX, September 2002.
  8. Multicast Monitoring: Supporting a Robust Multicast Service in the Internet, Ph.D. Dissertation Thesis, UC Santa Barbara, June 2002.
  9. Tracetree: A Utility to Discover Multicast Tree Topology in the Network, with K. Almeroth, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Draft, December 2001.
  10. Supporting Multicast Management Using the Multicast Reachability Monitor (MRM) Protocol,  with Kevin Almeroth and Liming Wei, Technical Report in Computer Science, TR2000-26, 2000. (MRM End Host Implementation)

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