Vern Paxson

Associate Professor

Research Areas

• Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
• Security (SEC)

Research Centers

• Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2009)

• CS 294-28. Network Security, M W 10:00-11:30A, 405 Soda

Selected Publications

• R. Pang, M. Allman, M. Bennett, J. Lee, V. Paxson, and B. Tierney, "A first look at modern enterprise traffic," in Proc. 5th ACM Internet Measurement Conf. (IMC '05), Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, 2005, pp. 15-28.
• V. Paxson, "Strategies for sound Internet measurement," in Proc. 4th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conf. (IMC '04), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2004, pp. 263-271.
• J. Jung, V. Paxson, A. W. Berger, and H. Balakrishnan, "Fast portscan detection using sequential hypothesis testing," in Proc. 2004 IEEE Symp. on Security and Privacy (S&P 2004), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 211-225.
• R. Bajcsy, A. D. Joseph, V. Paxson, D. Tygar, S. S. Sastry, and other DETER/EMIST Members, "Cyber defense technology networking and evaluation," Communications of the ACM Special Issue: Emerging Technologies for Homeland Security, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 58-61, March 2004.
• S. Staniford, V. Paxson, and N. Weaver, "How to 0wn the Internet in your spare time," in Proc. 11th USENIX Security Symp., Vol. 11, Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, 2002, pp. 149-167.
• S. Floyd and V. Paxson, "Difficulties in simulating the Internet," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 392-403, Aug. 2001.
• M. Handley, V. Paxson, and C. Kreibich, "Network intrusion detection: Evasion, traffic normalization, and end-to-end protocol semantics," in Proc. 10th USENIX Security Symp., Vol. 10, Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, 2001, pp. 115-131.
• V. Paxson, "Bro: A system for detecting network intruders in real-time," Computer Networks: The Intl. J. Computer and Telecommunications Networking, vol. 31, no. 23-24, pp. 2435-2463, Dec. 1999.
• V. Paxson, "End-to-end Internet packet dynamics," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 277-292, June 1999.
• V. Paxson, "End-to-end routing behavior in the Internet," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 601-615, Oct. 1997.
• V. Paxson and S. Floyd, "Wide area traffic: The failure of Poisson modeling," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 226-244, June 1995.