Vyas Sekar (CS 2010)

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Computer Science (Courtesy)

Bio

Sekar received his Ph.D. from the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. He earned his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. His work has been recognized with best paper awards at ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNext, and ACM Multimedia.

Education

Ph.D., 2010
Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Research

Sekar's research focuses on computer systems, networking, and security with broad applications to cloud computing, telecommunication networks, data centers, and Internet-of-Things.

Publications

Conference/Workshop Papers

2019

• [SIGCOMM] NitroSketch: Robust and General Sketch-based Monitoring in Software Switches 
  Zaoxing Liu, Ran Ben-Basat, Gil Einziger, Yaron Kassner, Vladimir Braverman, Roy Friedman, Vyas Sekar 
  to appear in SIGCOMM 2019
• [NSDI] Alembic: Automated Model Inference for Stateful Network Functions 
  Soo-Jin Moon, Jeffrey Helt, Yifei Yuan, Yves Bieri, Sujata Banerjee, Vyas Sekar, Wenfei Wu, Mihalis Yannakakis, Ying Zhang 
  in NSDI 2019
• [NSDI] Software-based RDMA Virtual Networking for Containerized Clouds 
  Daehyeok Kim, Tianlong Yu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yibo Zhu, Jitu Padhye, Shachar Raindel, Chuanxiong Guo, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan 
  in NSDI 2019
• [USENIX SECURITY] CANvas: Fast and Inexpensive Automotive Network Mapping Sekar Kulandaivel, Tushar Goyal, Arnav Kumar Agrawal, and Vyas Sekar 
  to appear in USENIX Security 2019
• [ICDCS] Practical Verifiable In-network Filtering for DDoS Defense, 
  Deli Gong, Muoi Tran, Shweta Shinde, Hao Jin, Vyas Sekar, Prateek Saxena, Min Suk Kang 
  to appear in ICDCS 2019

2018

• [NSDI] Efficient and Correct Test Scheduling for Ensembles of Stateful Network Policies 
  Yifei Yuan, Sanjay Chandrasekaran, Limin Jia, Vyas Sekar 
  in NSDI 2018
• [SIGCOMM] HyperLoop: Group-Based NIC-Offloading to Accelerate Replicated Transactions in Multi-Tenant Storage Systems 
  Daehyeok Kim, Amirsaman Memaripour, Anirudh Badam, Yibo Zhu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Jitu Padhye, Shachar Raindel, Steven Swanson, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan 
  to appear In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM 2018).
• [Conext] Intent-Driven Composition of Resource-Management SDN Applications 
  Victor Heorhiadi, Sanjay Chandrasekaran, Michael Reiter, Vyas Sekar 
  to appear in Conext 2018
• [IMC] How To Catch When Proxies Lie: Verifying the Physical Locations of Network Proxies with Active Geolocation 
  Zachary Weinberg, Shinyoung Cho, Nicolas Christin, Vyas Sekar, Phillipa Gill 
  to appear in IMC 2018
• [SRC TECHCON] Revisiting the Performance Promise of FPGAs for Network Functions 
  Zhipeng Zhao, Rohan Gandhi, James Hoe, Vyas Sekar, Justine Sherry 
  to appear in SRC TECHCON 2018
• [SECON] Rethinking Virtual Network Embedding in Reconfigurable Networks> 
  Md Shaifur Rahman; Max Curran; Himanshu Gupta; Vyas Sekar 
  To appear in SECON 2018
• [arxiv] Vulnerabilities of Electric Vehicle Battery Packs to Cyberattacks 
  Shashank Sripad, Sekar Kulandaivel, Vikram Pande, Vyas Sekar, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan 
• [arxiv] Oh, What a Fragile Web We Weave: Third-party Service Dependencies In Modern Webservices and Implications 
  Aqsa Kashaf, Carolina Zarate, Hanrou Wang, Yuvraj Agarwal, Vyas Sekar

2017

• [SIGCOMM] A High Performance Packet Core for Next Generation Cellular Networks 
  Zafar Qazi, Melvin Walls, Aurojit Panda, Vyas Sekar, Sylvia Ratnasamy, and Scott Shenker 
  in SIGCOMM 2017
• [NSDI] Pytheas: Enabling Data-Driven Quality of Experience Optimization Using Group-Based Exploration-Exploitation 
  Junchen Jiang, Shijie Sun, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang 
  in NSDI 2017
• [NDSS] PSI: Precise Security Instrumentation for Enterprise Networks 
  Tianlong Yu, Seyed K Fayaz, Michael Collins, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan 
  in NDSS 2017
• [ACC] On the Efficiency and Fairness of Multiplayer HTTP-based Adaptive Video Streaming 
  Xiaoqi Yin, Mihovil Bartulovic, Bruno Sinopoli, Vyas Sekar 
  in ACC 2017
• [ICDCS] Flow Reconnaissance via Timing Attacks on SDN Switches 
  Sheng Liu, Michael Reiter Vyas Sekar 
  in ICDCS 2017
• [HotNets] Biases in Data-Driven Networking, and What to Do About Them 
  Mihovil Bartulović, Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Bruno Sinopoli 
  in HotNets 2017
• [COMSNETS] Unleashing the Potential of Data-Driven Networking 
  Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang 
  in COMSNETS 2017 (invited paper)
  

2016

• [OSDI] Efficient Network Reachability Analysis using a Succinct Control Plane Representation 
  Seyed K. Fayaz, Tushar Sharma, Ari Fogel, Ratul Mahajan, Todd Millstein, Vyas Sekar, and George Varghese 
  in USENIX OSDI, 2016
• [SIGCOMM] CS2P: Improving Video Bitrate Selection and Adaptation with Data-Driven Throughput Prediction 
  Yi Sun, Xiaoqi Yin, Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Fuyuan Lin, Nanshu Wang, Tao Liu, Bruno Sinopoli 
  in SIGCOMM 2016
• [SIGCOMM] One Sketch to Rule Them All: Rethinking Network Flow Monitoring with UnivMon 
  Zaoxing Liu, Antonis Manousis, Greg Vorsanger, Vyas Sekar, Vladimir Braverman 
  in SIGCOMM 2016
• [SIGCOMM] Via: Improving Internet Telephony Call Quality Using Predictive Relay Selection 
  Junchen Jiang, Rajdeep Das, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Philip A. Chou, Venkata Padmanabhan, Vyas Sekar, 
  Esbjorn Dominique, Marcin Goliszewski, Dalibor Kukoleca, Renat Vafin, Hui Zhang 
  in SIGCOMM 2016
• [NSDI] Simplifying Software-Defined Network Optimization Applications Using SOL 
  Victor Heorhiadi, Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar 
  in NSDI 2016
• [NSDI] BUZZ: Testing Context-Dependent Policies in Stateful Networks 
  Seyed K Fayaz, Tianlong Yu, Yoshiaki Tobioka, Sagar Chaki, Vyas Sekar 
  in NSDI 2016
• [NSDI] CFA: A Practical Prediction System for Video QoE Optimization 
  Junchen Jiang, Henry Milner, Davis Shepherd, Vyas Sekar, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang 
  in NSDI 2016
• [NDSS] SPIFFY: Inducing Cost-Detectability Tradeoffs in Persistent Link-Flooding Attacks. 
  Min Suk Kang, Virgil D. Gligor, and Vyas Sekar. 
  in NDSS 2016
• [SOSR] KLEIN: A Minimally Disruptive Design for an Elastic Cellular Core 
  Zafar Ayyub Qazi , Phani Krishna, Vyas Sekar, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Kaustubh Joshi, Samir Das 
  in SOSR 2016
• [ICDCS] Gremlin: A Software-defined Framework for Testing the Resiliency of Microservices 
  Victor Heorhiadi, Shriram Rajagopalan, Hani Jamjoom, Michael K. Reiter, Vyas Sekar 
  in IEEE ICDCS 2016
• [AsiaCCS] Congesting the Internet with Coordinated And Decentralized Pulsating Attacks 
  Yu-Ming Ke, Chih-Wei Chen, Hsu-Chun Hsiao, Adrian Perrig, Vyas Sekar 
  in AsiaCCS 2016
• [HotNets] FreeFlow: High Performance Container Networking 
  Tianlong Yu,Shadi Abdollahian Noghabi, Shachar Raindel, Hongqiang Liu , Jitu Padhye, Vyas Sekar 
  in Hotnets 2016
  

2015

• [CCS] Nomad: Mitigating Arbitrary Cloud Side Channels via Provider-Assisted Migration 
  Soo-jin Moon, Vyas Sekar, Michael Reiter 
  in ACM CCS 2015 2nd place 2015 CSAW Best Applied Security paper
• [USENIX SECURITY] Flexible and Elastic DDoS Defense Using Bohatei 
  Seyed K Fayaz, Yoshiaki Tobioka, Vyas Sekar, Michael Bailey 
  in USENIX Security 2015 Finalist for the 2015 CSAW Best Applied Security paper
• [SIGCOMM] A Control-Theoretic Approach for Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming over HTTP 
  Xiaoqi Yin, Abhishek Jindal, Vyas Sekar, Bruno Sinopoli 
  in SIGCOMM 2015
• [NSDI] Klotski: Reprioritizing Web Content to Improve User Experience on Mobile Devices 
  Michael Butkiewicz, Daimeng Wang, Zhe Wu, Harsha Madhyastha, Vyas Sekar 
  in NSDI 2015
• [NSDI] C3: Internet-Scale Control Plane for Video Quality Optimization 
  Aditya Ganjam, Faisal Siddiqui, Jibin Zhan, Xi Liu, Ion Stoica, Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang 
  in NSDI 2015
• [PAM] Internet Outages, the Eyewitness Accounts: Analysis of the Outages Mailing List 
  Ritwik Banerjee, Abbas Razaghpanah, Akassh Mishra, Luis Chiang, Phillipa Gill, Yejin Choi, Vyas Sekar 
  in PAM 2015
• [HotNets] Enabling a "RISC" Approach for Software-Defined Monitoring using Universal Streaming 
  Zaoxing Liu, Greg Vorsanger, Vladimir Braverman, Vyas Sekar 
  in HotNets 2015
• [HotNets] Handling a trillion (unfixable) flaws on a billion devices: Rethinking network security for the Internet-of-Things 
  Tianlong Yu, Yuvraj Agarwal, Vyas Sekar, Srini Seshan, Chenren Xu 
  in HotNets 2015

2014

• [NSDI] Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox Actions using FlowTags 
  Seyed Fayazbakhsh, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu, Jeff Mogul 
  in NSDI 2014 slides
• [SIGCOMM] FireFly: A Reconfigurable Wireless Datacenter Fabric using Free-space Optics 
  Naved Hamedazimi, Zafar Qazi, Himanshu Gupta, Vyas Sekar, Samir Das, Himanshu Shah, Ashish Tanwer 
  in SIGCOMM 2014 slides
• [CoNext] Trace-Driven Analysis of ICN Caching Algorithms on Video-on-Demand Workloads 
  Yi Sun, Seyed K. Fayaz, Yang Guo, Vyas Sekar, Yun Jin, Mohamed-Ali Kaafar, and Steve Uhlig 
  in CoNext 2014
• [IMC] A First Look at Performance in Mobile Virtual Network Operators 
  Fatima Zarinni, Ayon Chakraborty, Vyas Sekar, Phillipa Gill, and Samir Das 
  in IMC 2014 Best paper nominee
• [ICISS] SNIPS: A Software-Defined Approach for Scaling Intrusion Prevention Systems via Offloading 
  Victor Heorhiadi, Seyed K Fayaz, Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar 
  in ICISS 2014
• [HotNets] Toward a Principled Framework to Design Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Algorithms over HTTP 
  Xiaoqi Yin, Vyas Sekar, Bruno Sinopoli 
  in HotNets 2014
• [HotNets] EONA: Experience-Oriented Network Architecture 
  Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Xi Liu, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang 
  in HotNets 2014
• [HotNets] Leveraging Video Measurements to Generate a Real-Time Traffic Map for the Internet 
  Yi Sun, Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang, Fuyuan Lin, Nanshu Wang 
  in HotNets 2014
• [HotSDN] Testing Stateful and Dynamic Dataplanes with FlowTest 
  Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh, Vyas Sekar 
  in HotSDN 2014 slides

2013

• [SIGCOMM] Less Pain, Most of the Gain: Incrementally Deployable ICN 
  Seyed Fayazbakhsh, Amin Tootoonchian, Yin Lin, Ali Ghodsi, KC Ng, Bruce Maggs, Vyas Sekar, Scott Shenker 
  in SIGCOMM 2013 slides Best paper shortlist
• [SIGCOMM] SIMPLE-fying Middlebox Policy Enforcement Using SDN 
  Zafar Qazi, Cheng-Chun tu, Luis Chiang, Rui Miao, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu 
  in SIGCOMM 2013 slides
• [SIGCOMM] Developing a Predictive Model of Quality of Experience for Internet Video 
  Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang 
  in SIGCOMM 2013 slides
• [CoNext] Shedding Light on the Structure of Internet Video Quality Problems in the Wild 
  Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang 
  in CoNext 2013
• [CoNext] Enhancing video accessibility and availability with information-bound references 
  Best paper 
  Ashok Anand, Athula Balachandran, Aditya Akella, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan 
  in CoNext 2013
• [IMC] Analyzing the Potential Benefits of CDN Augmentation Strategies for Internet Video Workloads 
  Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan 
  in IMC 2013
• [VEE] Toward Verifiable Resource Accounting for Outsourced Computation 
  Chen Chen, Petros Maniatis, Adrian Perrig, Amit Vasudevan, Vyas Sekar 
  in VEE 2013
• [HotSDN] FlowTags: Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox Actions 
  Seyed Fayazbakhsh, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu, Jeff Mogul 
  in HotSDN 2013 slides
• [HotMobile] Enabling the Transition to the Mobile Web with WebSieve 
  Michael Butkiewicz, Zhe Wu, Shunan Li, Pavithra Murali, Vagelis Hristidis, Harsha V Madhyastha, Vyas Sekar 
  in HotMobile 2013 slides
• [HotNets] Patch Panels in the Sky: A Case for Free-Space Optics in Data Centers 
  Navid Hamed Azimi, Himanshu Gupta, Vyas Sekar, Samir Das 
  in HotNets 2013 slides
• [HotMiddlebox] Verifiable Network Function Outsourcing: Requirements, Challenges, and Roadmap 
  Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh, Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar 
  in HotMiddlebox 2013

2012

• [SIGCOMM] Multi-resource Scheduling for Packet Processing 
  Best paper 
  Ali Ghodsi, Vyas Sekar, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica 
  in SIGCOMM 2012 slides
• [SIGCOMM] Making Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network Processing as a Cloud Service 
  Justine Sherry, Shaddi Hasan, Colin Scott, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Vyas Sekar 
  in SIGCOMM 2012 slides
• [SIGCOMM] A Case for a Coordinated Internet-Scale Video Control Plane 
  Xi Liu, Florin Dobrian, Henry Milner, Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang 
  in SIGCOMM 2012
• [NSDI] Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture 
  Vyas Sekar, Norbert Egi, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael Reiter, Guangyu Shi. 
  in NSDI 2012 slides
• [CoNext] Improving Fairness, Efficiency, and Stability in HTTP-Based Adaptive Streaming with Festive 
  Fast tracked to Transactions on Networking 
  Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang 
  in CoNext 2012 slides
• [CoNext] New Opportunities for Load Balancing in Network-Wide Intrusion Detection Systems 
  Victor Heorhiadi, Vyas Sekar, Michael K Reiter 
  in CoNext 2012 slides
• [IMC] Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks: Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+ 
  Neil Gong, Wenchang Xu, Ling Huang, Prateek Mittal, Emil Stefanov, Vyas Sekar, Dawn Song 
  in IMC 2012
• [SOUPS] Measuring and Improving User Confidence in Mobile Phone Security and Privacy 
  Erika Chin, Adrienne Porter Felt, Vyas Sekar, David Wagner 
  in SOUPS 2012
• [HotNets] A Quest for an Internet Video Quality-of-Experience Metric 
  Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang 
  in HotNets 2012 slides
• [HotNets] CARE: Content Aware Redundancy Elimination for Challenged Networks 
  Udi Weinsberg, Qinxi Li, Nina Taft, Athula Balachandran, Gianluca Iannaccone, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan 
  in HotNets 2012
  

2011

• [SIGCOMM] Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement 
  Selected for Communications of ACM Research Highlights 
  Florin Dobrian, Vyas Sekar, Asad Awan, Ion Stoica, Aditya Ganjam, Dilip Joseph, Jibin Zhan, Hui Zhang. 
  ACM SIGCOMM 2011
• [IMC] Understanding Website Complexity: Measurement, Metrics, and Implications 
  Michael Butkiewicz, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Vyas Sekar 
  ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2011 slides
• [HotNets] The Middlebox Manifesto: Enabling Innovation in Middlebox Deployments 
  Vyas Sekar, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael Reiter, Norbert Egi, Guangyu Shi. 
  in ACM HotNets 2011 slides
• [CCSW] Verifiable Resource Accounting for Cloud Computing Services 
  Vyas Sekar, Petros Maniatis. 
  Proceedings of the ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW), 2011. slides

2010 and earlier

• [SIGCOMM] SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination 
  Ashok Anand, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella 
  in ACM SIGCOMM 2009 slides
• [NSDI] cSamp: A System for Network-Wide Flow Monitoring 
  Vyas Sekar, Michael K. Reiter, Walter Willinger, Hui Zhang, Ramana Rao Kompella, David G. Andersen 
  in USENIX/ACM Networked System Design and Implementation 2008 slides
• [S&P] Worm Origin Identification Using Random MoonWalks 
  Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, David A Maltz, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2005
• [SIGMETRICS] Data Streaming Algorithms for Estimating Entropy of Network Traffic 
  Ashwin Lall, Vyas Sekar, Mitsu Ogihara, Jim Xu, Hui Zhang 
  in ACM SIGMETRICS 2006
• [CoNext] Network-Wide Deployment of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems 
  Vyas Sekar, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Anupam Gupta, and Michael K. Reiter 
  in ACM CoNEXT 2010 slides
• [USENIX] Remote Profiling of Resource Constraints of Web Servers Using Mini-Flash Crowds 
  Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Anees Shaikh 
  in USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2008
• [USENIX] LADS: Large-scale Automated DDoS Detection System 
  Vyas Sekar, Nick Duffield, Kobus van der Merwe, Oliver Spatscheck, Hui Zhang 
  in USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2006 slides
• [IMC] Revisiting the Case for a Minimalist Approach for Network Flow Monitoring 
  Vyas Sekar, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  in ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2010 slides 
• [IMC] An Empirical Evaluation of Entropy-Based Traffic Anomaly Detection 
  George Nychis, Vyas Sekar, David G. Andersen, Hyong Kim, Hui Zhang 
  in ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2008
• [IMC] Inside the Birds Nest: Measurements of Large-Scale Live VoD from the 2008 Olympics 
  Hao Yin, Xuening Liu, Feng Qiu, Chuang Lin, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang, Geyong Min 
  in ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2009
• [IMC] Sparse Approximations for High Fidelity Compression of Network Traffic Data 
  William Aiello, Anna Gilbert, Brian Rexroad, Vyas Sekar 
  in ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2005
• [ICNP] Forensic Analysis for Epidemic Attacks in Federated Networks 
  Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, Michael K. Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  in IEEE ICNP 2006
• [DSN] A Multi-Resolution Approach for Worm Detection and Containment 
  Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, Michael K. Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  in IEEE/IFIP DSN 2006 slides
• [Multimedia] Design and Deployment of a Hybrid CDN-P2P System for Live Video Streaming: Experiences with LiveSky 
  Best paper in systems track 
  Hao Yin, Xuening Liu, Tongyu Zhan, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang 
  in ACM Multimedia 2009
• [COMSNETS] Coordinated Sampling sans Origin-Destination Identifiers: Algorithms, Analysis, and Evaluation 
  Vyas Sekar, Anupam Gupta, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  in COMSNETS 2010 slides
• [ICISS] Making Peer-Assisted Content Distribution Robust to Collusion Using Bandwidth Puzzles 
  Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zhenghao Zhang 
  in ICISS 2009 slides
• [HotNets] A Case for Information-Bound Referencing 
  Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Vyas Sekar, and Srinivasan Seshan, 
  in ACM HotNets 2010
• [HotNets] Toward a Framework for Internet Forensic Analysis 
  Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, David A Maltz, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  in ACM Hotnets III 2004
• [INM] Using Mini-Flash Crowds to Infer Resource Constraints in Remote Web Servers 
  Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Anees Shaikh 
  in ACM SIGCOMM Worksop on Internet Network Management (INM) 2007
• [LSAD] Analyzing Large DDoS Attacks using Multiple Data Sources, 
  Z. Morley Mao, Vyas Sekar, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus van der Merwe, Rangarajan Vasudevan 
  in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Large-Scale Attack Defense (LSAD) 2006
• [HomeNets] Tracking Semantic Relationships for Effective Data Management in Home Networks 
  Ashok Anand, Aaron Gember, Vyas Sekar and Aditya Akella 
  in ACM SIGCOMM HomeNets Workshop 2010
• [N2S] Scalable Long-term Network Forensics for Epidemic Attacks 
  Li Ming Chen, Meng Chang Chen, Yeali S. Sun, Mike Hsiao, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang 
  in IFIP/IEEE N2S 2009
• [ICC] Routing for a Single Interface MCN Architecture and Pricing Schemes for Data Traffic in Multihop Cellular Networks 
  Vyas Sekar, B. S. Manoj, C. Siva Ram Murthy 
  in IEEE ICC 2003

Journal Articles

• [ToMultimedia] Tradeoffs Between Cost and Performance for CDN Provisioning Based on Coordinate Transformation Hao Yin, Xu Zhang , Shuoyao Zhao , Yan Luo, Chen Tian , Vyas Sekar 
  in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2017
• IEEE Security and Privacy Rethinking Security in the Era of Cloud Computing Jay Aikat, Aditya Akella, Jeffrey S. Chase, Ari Juels, Michael K. Reiter, Thomas Ristenpart, Vyas Sekar, Michael Swift 
  in IEEE Security and Privacy Volume 15 Issue 3
• [ToN] Enhancing Video Accessibility and Availability Using Information-Bound References 
  Ashok Anand, Athula Balachandran, Aditya Akella, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan 
  in IEEE Transactions on Networking 2015
• [ToN] Improving Fairness, Efficiency, and Stability in HTTP-Based Adaptive Streaming with Festive 
  Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang 
  in IEEE Transactions on Networking 2013
• [ToN] Understanding Website Complexity: Measurement, Metrics, and Implications 
  Michael Butkiewicz, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Vyas Sekar 
  in IEEE Transactions on Networking 2013
• [CACM] Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement 
  Florin Dobrian, Asad Awan, Dilip Joseph, Aditya Ganjam, Jibin Zhan, Vyas Sekar, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang 
  Research Highlights in Communications of the ACM 
  
• [TOMCCAP] LiveSky: Enhancing CDN with P2P 
  Hao Yin, Xuening Liu, Tongyu Zhan, Vyas Sekar, Feng Qiu, Chuang Lin, Hui Zhang , Bo Li 
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP) Volume 6 Issue 3, August 2010 Article No. 16 

Miscellaneous (Posters, Extended Abstracts etc)

• [NSF QoE] In-Situ Quality of Experience Monitoring: The Case for Prioritizing Coverage Over Fidelity 
  Aditya Ganjam, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang 
  NSF QoE Workshop, Fall 2015
• [NSF QoE] Understanding Throughput Stability and Predictability to Enable Better Video Quality of Experience 
  Xiaoqi Yin, Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Bruno Sinopoli 
  NSF QoE Workshop, Fall 2015
• [NSDI] Enabling Software-Defined Network Optimization Applications Using SOL 
  Victor Heorhiadi, Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar 
  poster at NSDI 2015
• [NSDI] Scalable Testing of Context-Dependent Policies over Stateful Data Planes with BUZZ 
  Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh, Yoshiaki Tobioka, Sagar Chaki, Vyas Sekar 
  poster at NSDI 2015
• [ONS] Extending SDN to Handle Dynamic Middlebox Actions using FlowTags 
  Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh, Luis Chiang, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu, Jeffrey C. Mogul 
  presentation at the Open Networking Summit 2014
• [ONS] Practical and Incremental Convergence between SDN and Middleboxes 
  Zafar Qazi, Cheng-chun Tu, Rui Miao, Luis Chiang, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu 
  presentation at the Open Networking Summit 2013
• [ONS] Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture 
  Vyas Sekar, Norbert Egi, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Michael K Reiter, Guangyu Shi 
  poster at the Open Networking Summit 2013
• [SIGMETRICS] Understanding Video Access Patterns: Measurements and Implications, 
  Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan 
  extended abstract in SIGMETRICS 2013
• [NSDI] A System for Coordinated NEtwork-wide Redundancy Elimination 
  Ashok Ananad, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella 
  in NSDI 2009 (poster)

Technical Reports

• Effective Network Management via System-Wide Coordination and Optimization 
  Vyas Sekar, 
  Ph.D. Thesis [pdf]
• Network-wide Deployment of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems 
  Vyas Sekar, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Anupam Gupta, Michael K Reiter, 
  Technical Report, CMU-CS-10-124 [pdf]
• Making Contribution-Aware P2P Systems Robust to Collusion Attacks Using Bandwidth Puzzles 
  Michael K Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zhenghao Zhang 
  Technical Report, CMU-CS-09-136 [pdf]
• A Case for a RISC Architecture for Network Flow Monitoring 
  Vyas Sekar, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  Technical Report, CMU-CS-09-125 [pdf]
• Coordinated Sampling sans Origin-Destination Identifiers: Algorithms, Analysis, and Evaluation 
  Vyas Sekar, Anupam Gupta, Michael K Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  Technical Report, CMU-CS-09-104 [pdf]
• An Empirical Evaluation of Entropy-Based Traffic Anomaly Detection 
  George Nychis, Vyas Sekar, David G. Andersen, Hyong Kim, Hui Zhang 
  Technical Report, CMU-CS-08-145 [pdf]
• Coordinated Sampling: An Efficient, Network-Wide Approach for Flow Monitoring 
  Vyas Sekar, Michael K. Reiter, Walter Willinger, Hui Zhang 
  Technical Report, CMU-CS-07-139 [pdf]
• Is Host-Based Anomaly Detection + Temporal Correlation = Worm Causality? 
  Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, Michael K. Reiter, Hui Zhang 
  Technical Report,CMU-CS-07-112 [pdf]