Alberto Dainotti

Welcome to my web page!  UPDATE: I'm doing a PostDoc at CAIDA/UCSD (check my CAIDA web page) I'm a Post-Doc in the COMICS group, a research group on Networking headed by Prof. Giorgio Ventre at the Computer Science and Engineering Department (Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica) of University of Napoli (UoN) "Federico II", where I received my PhD in 2008 defending a thesis entitled "Understanding Internet Traffic: Can We Classify the Unknown?". My main research interests are on traffic measurements, analysis, modeling and classification, and on network security. A few people have something to say about the colors of this web page. If you want express your disgust, my email address is quite simple:  alberto  CHIOCCIOLA unina.it  (substitute "CHIOCCIOLA" with "@").

Projects

• Traffic Identification Engine
• Plab: Packet Capture and Analysis Software
• D-ITG: Distributed Internet Traffic Generator
• The Traffic Project

Some Talks

• "Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship" , at the CAIDA Workshop on BGP and Traceroute data, August 22, 2011, San Diego, CA (USA), accepted for publication
  
• "TIE - Traffic Identification Engine" , at the 61th RIPE Meeting, April 18, 2010, Rome.
  

List of Publications

Journals

• A. Dainotti, R. Amman, E. Aben, K. C. Claffy, “Extracting Benefit from Harm: Using Malware Pollution to Analyze the Impact of Political and Geophysical Events on the Internet", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, accepted for publication
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, K. C. Claffy, “Issues and Future Directions in Traffic Classification", IEEE Network, accepted for publication
  
  
• A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, “Do You Trust Your Software-based Traffic Generator?", IEEE Communications Magazine, September 2010, pp. 158-165.
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “A Cascade Architecture for DoS Attacks Detection Based on the Wavelet Transform", Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 17, Issue 6, pp. 945-968
  
  
• T. Silverston, O. Fourmaux, A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapé, G. Ventre, K. Salamatian, "Traffic Analysis of Peer-to-Peer IPTV Communities", Computer Networks (Elsevier). Volume 53, Issue 4, 18 March 2009, Pages 470-484.
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapé, P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre, "Internet traffic modeling by means of Hidden Markov Models" ,Computer Networks (Elsevier). Volume 52, Issue 14, 9 October 2008, Pages 2645-2662
  
  
• A. Dainotti, S. Loreto, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, "SCTP performance evaluation over Heterogeneous Networks" ,Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) , Vol 19, Issue 8 (June 2007), Special Issue on Performance Analysis and Enhancements of Wireless Networks. pp. 1207 - 1218 .
  
  

Conferences

• A. Dainotti, C. Squarcella, E. Aben, K. C. Claffy, M. Chiesa, M. Russo, A. Pescapè, Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship, ACM SIGCOMM/SIGMETRICS Internet Measurement Conference IMC 2011 - November 2011, Berlin (Germany)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, H. Kim, Traffic Classification through Joint Distributions of Packet-level Statistics, IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 - December 2011, Houston (TX, USA)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, C. Sansone, A. Quintavalle, Using a Behaviour Knowledge Space Approach for Detecting Unknown IP Traffic Flows, 10th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2011 - June 2011, Napoli (Italy)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, C. Sansone, Early Classification of Network Traffic through Multi-Classification, International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'11) - April 2011, Vienna (Austria)
  
  
• G. Aceto, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, PortLoad: taking the best of two worlds in traffic classification, IEEE INFOCOM 2010 - WIP Track - March 2010, San Diego (CA, USA)
  
  
• V. Carela-Espanol, P. Barlet-Ros, M. Solé-Simò, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, K-dimensional trees for continuous traffic classification, International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'10) @ PAM 2010 - April 2010, Zurich (Switzerland)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, F. Gargiulo, L. Kuncheva, A. Pescapè, C. Sansone, Identification of traffic flows hiding behind TCP port 80, IEEE ICC 2010 - May 2010, Capetown (South Africa)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, TIE: a Community-Oriented Traffic Classification Platform", International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'09) @ IFIP Networking 2009 - May 2009, Aachen (Germany)
  
  
  
• A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi, "Classification of Network Traffic via Packet-Level Hidden Markov Models", IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - Dec 2008, New Orleans (LA, USA)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “Worm Traffic Analysis and Characterization", IEEE ICC 2007 - Jun 2007, Glasgow (Scotland)
  
  
• A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “Reducing Network Traffic Data Sets", IEEE ICC 2007 - Jun 2007, Glasgow (Scotland)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “Wavelet-based Detection of DoS Attacks", 2006 IEEE GLOBECOM - Nov 2006, San Francisco (CA, USA)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi, G. Iannello, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre, “An HMM Approach to Internet Traffic Modeling", 2006 IEEE GLOBECOM - Nov 2006, San Francisco (CA, USA)
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre,“A Packet-level Characterization of Network Traffic”, 11th IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2006) - Trento (Italy), June 2006
  
  
• A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “A packet-level model of Starcraft traffic”, IEEE Second International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems 2005 (co-located with IEEE Mobiquitous 2005) – pp. 244-253, 0-7695-2417-6/05 - July 2005, San Diego (CA, USA)