
Publications
Active publisher during my PhD years and beyond, with work spanning network traffic analysis, mobile networks, anomaly detection, and data mining. Feel free to reach out for access to any paper.
Selected works
SIGCOMM 2015 · SRC Runner-Up
"Challenging Entropy-based Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis in Cellular Networks"
PDF IEEE TNSM · Journal 2016
"Grasping Popular Applications in Cellular Networks with Big Data Analytics Platforms"
PDF IFIP Networking 2015
"Online Social Networks Anatomy: on the Analysis of Facebook and WhatsApp in Cellular Networks"
PDF PhD Dissertation · TU Wien 2015
"Data Analytics in computer networks and design of ML systems for anomaly detection and diagnosis"
PDFJournal Papers & Book Chapters
"Big Data in Mobile Networks"
Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, Springer, Cham
2018
"Grasping Popular Applications in Cellular Networks with Big Data Analytics Platforms"
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
2016
"DBStream: A Holistic Approach to Large-Scale Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis"
Computer Networks, S.I. on ML & Big Data Frameworks for Network Monitoring
2016
"Unveiling Network and Service Performance Degradation in the Wild with mPlane"
IEEE Communications Magazine, Network Testing and Analytics Series
2016
"When YouTube doesn't Work — Analysis of QoE-relevant Degradation in Google CDN Traffic"
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 11, no. 4
2014
Conference Papers
"Call Detail Records for Human Mobility Studies: Taking Stock of the Situation in the Always Connected Era"
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Big-Data ML for Data Communication Networks, Los Angeles, USA
2017
"(Semi-)Supervised Machine Learning Approaches for Network Security in High-Dimensional Network Data"
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Vienna, Austria
2016
"Machine-Learning Based Approaches for Anomaly Detection and Classification in Cellular Networks"
ACM MOBICOM Workshop on All Things Cellular (ATC), New York, USA
2016
"When Smartphones become the Enemy: Unveiling Mobile Apps Anomalies through Clustering Techniques"
Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA 2016), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2016
"Detecting and Diagnosing Anomalies in Cellular Networks using Random Neural Networks"
International Workshop on Traffic Analysis and Characterization (TRAC 2016), Paphos, Cyprus
2016
"Challenging Entropy-based Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis in Cellular Networks"
ACM SIGCOMM Demo/Poster Session, London, UK
2015
Student Research Competition Runner Up
"RCATool – A Framework for Detection and Diagnosis of Anomalies in Cellular Networks"
International Teletraffic Conference (ITC 27), Ghent, Belgium
2015
"Towards Automatic Detection and Diagnosis of Internet Service Anomalies via DNS Traffic Analysis"
International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2015), Dubrovnik, Croatia
2015
"On the Analysis of QoE in Cellular Networks: from Subjective Tests to Large-scale Traffic Measurements"
International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2015), Dubrovnik, Croatia
2015
"QoMOSN — On the Analysis of Traffic and Quality of Experience in Mobile Online Social Networks"
European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2015), Paris, France
2015
"Online Social Networks Anatomy: on the Analysis of Facebook and WhatsApp in Cellular Networks"
IFIP Networking 2015, Toulouse, France
2015
"Vivisecting WhatsApp in Cellular Networks: Servers, Flows, and Quality of Experience"
Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA 2015), Barcelona, Spain
2015
"Diagnosing Device-Specific Anomalies in Cellular Networks"
ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, Sydney, Australia
2014
"YouTube in the Move: Understanding the Performance of YouTube in Cellular Networks"
Wireless Days Conference (WD 2014), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
Best Paper Award Runner Up
"On the Analysis of QoE-based Performance Degradation in YouTube Traffic"
International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2014), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
"On the Detection of Network Traffic Anomalies in Content Delivery Network Services"
International Teletraffic Conference (ITC 26), Karlskrona, Sweden
2014
"Vivisecting WhatsApp through Large-Scale Measurements in Mobile Networks"
ACM SIGCOMM Demo/Poster Session, Chicago, USA
2014
"YouTube All Around: Characterizing YouTube from Mobile and Fixed-line Network Vantage Points"
European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2014), Bologna, Italy
2014
"Characterizing Web Services Provisioning via CDNs: The Case of Facebook"
International Workshop on Traffic Analysis and Characterization (TRAC 2014), Nicosia, Cyprus
2014
"Who to Blame when YouTube is not Working? Detecting Anomalies in CDN-Provisioned Services"
International Workshop on Traffic Analysis and Characterization (TRAC 2014), Nicosia, Cyprus
2014
"Understanding HTTP Traffic and CDN Behavior from the Eyes of a Mobile ISP"
Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM 2014), Los Angeles, USA
2014
"IP Mining: Extracting Knowledge from the Dynamics of the Internet Addressing Space"
International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 25), Shanghai, China
2013
Best Paper Award
"Mini-IPC: A Minimalist Approach for HTTP Traffic Classification using IP Addresses"
International Workshop on Traffic Analysis and Classification (IWCMC 2013), Cagliari, Italy
2013
"HTTPTag: A Flexible On-line HTTP Classification System for Operational 3G Networks"
IEEE Infocom Demo/Poster Session, Turin, Italy
2013
"Macro-mobility Patterns from Cellular Network Data"
ITS World Congress (ITS 2012), Vienna, Austria
2012
"Acquisition of Traffic and Mobility Data Based on Cellular Network Signaling"
ITS World Congress (ITS 2012), Vienna, Austria
2012
"Steps towards the Extraction of Vehicular Mobility Patterns from 3G Signaling Data"
Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA 2012), Vienna, Austria
2012