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Publications


[ Theses]
[ Journals]
[ Conferences]
[ Technical Reports]

Theses

Mitigating Attacks Agaist Adaptation Mechanisms in Overlay Networks, Master Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, May 2006. AAron Walters. [PDF].

Journals

Secure Group Communication Using Robust Contributory Key Agreement. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 468-480, May 2004. Yair Amir, Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, John Schultz, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene Tsudik. [PDF].
On the Performance of Group Key Agreement Protocols. ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (TISSEC), vol. 7, no. 3, August 2004. Yair Amir, Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Gene Tsudik. [PDF].
Secure Spread: An Integrated Architecture for Secure Group Communication Yair Amir, Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Jonathan Stanton and Gene Tzudik. In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 2, no. 3, August 2005.[PDF]. Also Technical Report June 2004.
ODSBR: An On-Demand Secure Byzantine Resilient Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Baruch Awerbuch, Reza Curtmola, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens. To appear in ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (TISSEC). [PDF].
JANUS: A Framework for Scalable and Secure Routing in Hybrid Wireless Networks. B. Carbunar, I. Ioannidis and C. Nita-Rotaru. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Systems (TDSC), 2008.
Virtual Classroom Extension for Effective Distance Education. C. Jia, R. Dondera, V. Popescu, C. Nita-Rotaru, M. Dark, and C. S. York. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, January/February 2008. [PDF]
Enabling Confidentiality of Data Delivery in an Overlay Broadcasting System. R. Torres X. Sun, A. Walters, C. Nita-Rotaru and S. Rao. In Special Issue of IEEE JSAC on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems, vol. 25, no. 9, December 2007. [PDF].
A Framework for Mitigating Attacks Against Measurement-Based Adaptation Mechanisms in Unstructured Multicast Overlay Networks. A. Walters, D. Zage and C. Nita-Rotaru. To appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2007. [PDF].
A Survey of Attack and Defense Techniques for Reputation Systems K. Hoffman, D. Zage and C. Nita-Rotaru. To appear in ACM Computing Surveys, Mar. 2008. [PDF].
STEWARD: Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication to Wide Area Networks. Y. Amir, C. Danilov, D. Dolev, J. Kirsch, J. Lane, C. Nita-Rotaru, J. Olsen, and D. Zage. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), June 2008.

Conferences and Workshops

Mitigating Attacks against Virtual Coordinate System Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. J. Dong, B. Bhavar, E. Ackermann and C. Nita-Rotaru. In First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Alexandria, VA, March 2008.
On the Pitfalls of Using High-Throughput Metrics in Adversarial Wireless Mesh Networks, J. Dong, R. Curtmola and C. Nita-Rotaru. In the Fifth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2008), San Francisco CA, June 2008.
Secure Group Communication in Wireless Mesh Networks. In Ninth IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM), Newport Beach, CA, June, 2008. J. Dong, K. Ackermann, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
On the Accuracy of Decentralized Network Coordinate Systems in Adversarial Networks. D. Zage and C. Nita-Rotaru. In the 14th ACM CCS, Alexandria, VA, USA, October 29 - November 2, 2007. [PDF].
BSMR: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Multicast Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Networks. R. Curtmola and C. Nita-Rotaru. In SECON 2007, June 2007, San Diego, CA. [ PDF ] An extended version is available as Technical Report CSD TR 07-005, March 2007. [ PDF ]
Enabling Confidentiality of Data Delivery in an Overlay Broadcasting System. R. Torres X. Sun, A. Walters, C. Nita-Rotaru and S. Rao. In INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska. [PDF]
Mitigating Attacks Against Measurement-Based Adaptation Mechanisms in Unstructured Multicast Overlay Networks. AAron Walters, David Zage and Cristina Nita-Rotaru, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols November (ICNP) 12-15, 2006 Santa Barbara, California.
Steward: Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems to Wide Area Networks. Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Danny Dolev, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Josh Olsen, David Zage, In The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2006), Philadelphia, PA, June 2006. [PDF]. Also Technical Report CSD TR 05-029. [PDF] .
A Byzantine Resilient Distributed Position Service. Josh Olsen, David Zage and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Extended Abstract. In The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2006), Philadelphia, PA, June 2006.
Po2V: Network Layer Position Verification in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM), Niagara Falls, NY June, 2006. Xiaoxin Wu and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
On the Survivability of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. In IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2005, Sept. 2005. B. Awerbuch, R. Curtmola, D. Holmer, C. Nita-Rotaru and H. Rubens. [PDF].
DICAS: Detection, Diagnosis and Isolation of Control Attacks in Sensor Networks. In IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2005, Sept. 2005. I. Khalil, S. Bagchi and C. Nita-Rotaru. [PDF].
On the Security of Distributed Position Services. In IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2005, Sept. 2005. X. Wu and C. Nita-Rotaru. [PDF].
WiViD: Visible Watermak Based Defense Against Phishing. In International Workshop of Digital Watermarking (IWDW), Sept. 2005. A. Shamara, M. Topkara, M. Atallah and C. Nita-Rotaru. [PDF].
Network Layer Position Verification In MobiHoc 2005, Poster , Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2005. Xiaoxin Wu and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
SPASS: Scalable and Energy-Efficient Data Acquisition in Sensor Databases. In 4th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDe 2005) in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS. Baltimore, June 2005. M.H. Ali, Walid G. Aref and C. Nita-Rotaru. [PDF].
Scalable Routing in Hybrid Cellular and Ad-Hoc Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Taormina / Giardini Naxos, Italy June, 2005. Ioannis Ioannidis, Bogdan Carbunar, Cristina Nita-Rotaru. [PDF] [Extended Technical Report CSD TR# 05-006]
Secure Multi-Hop Infrastructure Access. In Wireless and Mobile Security Workshop, NDSS'05 Catamaran Resort HotelSan Diego, California, Feb. 2005. Baruch Awerbuch, Reza Curtmola, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens.
Synchronization Attacks Against 802.11. In Wireless and Mobile Security Workshop, NDSS'05 Catamaran Resort HotelSan Diego, California, Feb. 2005. Gunjan Khanna, Ammar Masood and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
JANUS: Towards Robust and Malicious Resilient Routing in Hybrid Wireless Networks In Workshop in Wireless Security WiSe 2004, In conjunction with MOBICOM 2004, Philadelphia, PA, 2004 Bogdan Carbunar, Ioanis Ioannidis and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. [PDF] .
A Framework for Role-Based Access Control in Group Communication Systems. In 2004 International Workshop on Security in Parallel and Distributed Systems In conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems PDCS-2004 San Francisco , CA, September 15-17, 2004 Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Ninghui Li. [PDF], [Extended Technical Report CERIAS TR #2003-31] .
Coping with the Insider Threat in Scalable Distributed Information Systems Service. In FuDiCo II: (S.O.S.)Survivability: Obstacles and Solutions, 2nd International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing , University of Bologna Residential Center Bertinoro(Forli), Italy, June 23-25 2004. Yair Amir and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. [PDF].
Scaling Secure Group Communication Systems: Beyond Peer-to-Peer In the Proceedings of DISCEX3, Washington DC, April 22-24, 2003. Yair Amir, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Jonathan Stanton, Gene Tsudik. [PDF], [BIB].
On the Performance of Group Key Agreement Protocols. Published in the Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, July 2-5, 2002, short paper. YairAmir, Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Gene Tsudik. [PDF], [BIB].
Stateless-Recipient Certified E-mail System based on Verifiable Encryption. Published in the Proceedings of RSA 2002 , McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA, February 18-22, 2002. Giuseppe Ateniese and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
[PDF], [BIB].
Exploring Robustness in Group Key Agreement. Published in the Proceedings of the 21th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, April 16-19, 2001, pp 399-408. Nominated for Best Paper Award. Yair Amir, Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, John Schultz, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene Tsudik. [PDF], [BIB], [Extended Technical Report CNDS #2000-4].
Secure Group Communication in Asynchronous Networks with Failures: Integration and Experiments Published in the Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, April 10-13, 2000, pp 330-343. Yair Amir,Giuseppe Ateniese, Damian Hasse, Yongdae Kim,Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Theo Schlossnagle, John Schultz, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene Tsudik. [PDF], [BIB].
An On-Demand Secure Routing Protocol Resilient to Byzantine Failures. In ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe), Atlanta, Georgia, September 28 2002. Baruch Awerbuch, Dave Holmer,Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Herbert Rubens. [PDF], [BIB].
High Performance, Secure, Robust and Transparent Messaging Service. In FuDiCo 2002: International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing , Bertinoro(Forli), Italy, June 3-7 2002. Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. [PS].
Framework for Authentication and Access Control of Client-Server Group Communication Systems Published in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, London, UK November 7-9 2001. Yair Amir, Cristina Nita-Rotaru,and Jonathan Stanton. [PS], [BIB], [Extended Technical Report CNDS #2001-2].

Technical Reports

Survey of Attack and Defense Techniques for Reputation Systems K. Hoffman, D. Zage and C. Nita-Rotaru. Technical report CSD TR #07-013, May 2007. [PDF].
Enhancing Distributed Systems with Mechanisms to Cope with Malicious Clients. Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, John Lane, Michal Miskin-Amir, Cristina Nita-Rotaru [PDF] .
DAISY: Increasing Scalability and Robustness of Anonymity Systems Chi-Bun Chan and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Technical Report CSD TR #04-018. Oct. 2004. [PDF] .
Robust Security Mechanisms for Data Streams Systems Mohamed Ali, Mohamed ElTabakh, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Technical Report CSD TR #04-019, May 2004. [PDF] .


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