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A/PROF CHRISTOPHER LECKIE



Contact Details

Organization: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~caleckie
Work: (03) 8344 1413
Fax: (03) 9348 1184
Room: 3.12
Level: 03
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Data Mining, Network Intrusion Detection, Artificial Intelligence for Telecommunications, Bioinformatics Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States University of West Florida Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Monash University 01-Dec-1987
Bachelor of Science Monash University 02-Dec-1985
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University 01-Mar-1993

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Faculty of Engineering Kelvin Medal for Teaching 01-Jan-2005
Other (Award) Faculty of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award 01-Jan-2005
Other (Award) Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award 01-Dec-2003

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
INTELLIGUARD FIREWALL- DITR R&D START GRANT, GRADUATE-BASED PROJECT Chief Investigator AUSINDUSTRY,
DEPT OF INDUSTRY TOURISM & RESOURCES		 R&D Start Graduate Grant (DEPT OF INDUSTRY TOURISM & RESOURCES) 24/05/2004
Defending Against Attacks on Internet-Based Telephone Services (Voice Over IP) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
POWERGUARD PTY LTD		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
Data Mining by Clustering in Very Large Relational Databases Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
BIGNET - A DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK TESTBED Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2008
High performance firewalls for network security Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
INTELLIGUARD I.T. PTY LTD		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL)

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
INTELLIGUARD VOIP Chief Investigator INTELLIGUARD I.T. PTY LTD 02/02/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Automatically Determining the Number of Clusters in Unlabeled Data Sets
    Year: 2009
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 335-350
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  • Collaborative Detection of Fast Flux Phishing Domains
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Networks
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 75-84
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  • Cost comparison of optical circuit-switched and burst-switched networks
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 2315-2329
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  • Decentralized multi-dimensional alert correlation for collaborative intrusion detection
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Network and Computer Applications
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1106-1123
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  • Using graph partitioning to discover regions of correlated spatio-temporal change in evolving graphs
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Intelligent Data Analysis
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 755-793
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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • An Efficient Clustering Scheme to Exploit Hierarchical Data in Network Traffic Analysis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 752-767
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  • Anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 34-40
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  • Discovering correlated spatio-temporal changes in evolving graphs
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Knowledge and Information Systems
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 53-96
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  • Multiple-input single-output FIFO optical buffers with controllable fractional delay lines
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 26
    Page numbers: 21849-21864
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  • Selective Sampling for Approximate Clustering of Very Large Data Sets
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Intelligent Systems
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 313-331
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Self-healing, Self-protecting Collaborative Intrusion Detection Architecture to Trace-back Fast-flux Phishing Domains


    Year: 2008
    Event name: NOMS 2008 Workshops - IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium Workshops
    Page numbers: 321-327
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • CESVM: Centered Hyperellipsoidal Support Vector Machine Based Anomaly Detection


    Year: 2008
    Event name: 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008)
    Conference Publication: 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Dual Clustering for Categorization of Action Sequences


    Year: 2008
    Event name: IAPR - 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Omnipress(Los Angeles)
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  • Moving Shape Dynamics: A Signal Processing Perspective


    Year: 2008
    Event name: CVPR 2008 - IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • A Bi-ordering Approach to Linking Gene Expressions with Clinical Annotations in Cancer
    Year: 2008
    Event name: MLSB 08 - the second International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the second International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology
    Page numbers: 95-103
    Publisher: MLSB '08
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  • Analysis and Enhancement of On-demand Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Year: 2008
    Event name: PM2HW2N'08
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Performance Monitoring, Measurement, and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks
    Page numbers: 173-179
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
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  • CPU-based DoS Attacks Against SIP Servers
    Year: 2008
    Event name: NOMS 2008 - IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
    Page numbers: 41-48
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Characteristic-Based Descriptors for Motion Sequence Recognition
    Year: 2008
    Event name: PAKDD 2008 - the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and DataMining
    Conference Publication: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Volume: 5012
    Page numbers: 369-380
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Online drift correction in wireless sensor networks using spatio-temporal modeling
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 11th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Relieving Hot Spots in Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems During Worm Outbreaks
    Year: 2008
    Event name: NOMS 2008 - IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
    Page numbers: 49-56
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • SpecVAT: Enhanced Visual Cluster Analysis
    Year: 2008
    Event name: ICDM 2008 - Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
    Page numbers: 638-647
    Publisher: The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway, New Jersey)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Information Sharing for Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Network and Computer Applications
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 877-899
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  • Survey of Network based defense mechanisms countering the DoS and DDoS problems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: ACM Computing Surveys
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1- 43 (Article 3)
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  • Traffic grooming in hybrid ring-star optical networks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Optical Networking
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 263-277
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Scalable Sampling Scheme for Clustering in Network Traffic Analysis
    Year: 2007
    Event name: The Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems
    Conference Publication: INFOSCALE 2007: The Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: The Association for Computing Machinery(New York)
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  • A Sensor Web Middleware with Stateful Services for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Intelligent Sensors Sensor Networks and Information Processing
    Conference Publication: ISSNIP: Proceedings of 2007 Intelligent Sensors Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference
    Page numbers: 491-496
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • An Attack-Resistant Hashing Scheme
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ATNAC: Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2007
    Conference Publication: ATNAC: Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2007
    Page numbers: 307-310
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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  • Analysis of Anomalies in IBRL Data from a Wireless Sensor Network Deployment
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Sensor Technologies and Applications
    Conference Publication: International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications SENSORCOMM 2007
    Page numbers: 158-163
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • Evaluation of a Decentralized Architecture for Large Scale Collaborative Intrusion Detection
    Year: 2007
    Event name: IM '07
    Conference Publication: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management
    Page numbers: 80 - 89
    Publisher: IEEE Communications Society(New York)
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  • Hop-Count Monitoring: Detecting Sinkhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks
    Page numbers: 176-181
    Publisher: IEEE South Australia Section(South Australia)
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  • Paced TCP gives higher utilization with no buffers than with small buffers
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ECOC07: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Conference Publication: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: VDE Verlag GMBH(Berlin)
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  • Quarter Sphere Based Distributed Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications
    Conference Publication: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Tensor Space Learning for Analyzing Activity Patterns from Video Sequences
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining- Worskshops
    Conference Publication: ICDM Workshops 2007: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops
    Page numbers: 63-68
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • The Curse of Ease of Acces to the Internet
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ICISS 2007 - third international conference on Information Systems Security
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the third International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2007)
    Page numbers: 234-249
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Intrusion Detection System
    Year: 2005
    Event name: IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2005)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2005)
    Page numbers: 81-86
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Anomaly detection for Internet worms
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005)
    Page numbers: 133-146
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Does optical burst switching have a role in the core network?
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Exploiting traffic localities for efficient flow state lookup
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference (Networking 2005)
    Conference Publication: NETWORKING 2005: Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
    Volume: 3462
    Page numbers: 1133-1145
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Traffic Aggregation in Hybrid Ring-Star Optical Networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: IEEE Tencon 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of IEEE Tencon 2005
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Unsupervised anomaly detection in network intrusion detection using clusters
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Twenty-Eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2005)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2005)
    Page numbers: 333-342
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Efficient Visualization of Large Routing Topologies
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Network Management
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 105-118
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Adaptive Clustering for Network Intrusion Detection
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 8th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    Conference Publication: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    Page numbers: 255-259
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Modeling and analysis of optical networks with traffic grooming
    Year: 2004
    Event name: IEEE LEOS lasers and electro optics society conference
    Conference Publication: IEEE LEOS lasers and electro optics conference 2004 proceedings
    Page numbers: 422-423
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Proactively Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using Source IP Address Monitoring
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Third International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference
    Conference Publication: Networking 2004: Networking Technologies, Services and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communications Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications
    Volume: 3042
    Page numbers: 771-782
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Waveband Grooming and IP Aggregation in Optical Networks
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2476-2488
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An Efficient Filter for Denial-of-Service Bandwidth Attacks
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 46th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2003
    Conference Publication: Globecom '03 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
    Page numbers: 1353-1357
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Applying Reinforcement Learning to Packet Scheduling in Routers
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Fifteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
    Page numbers: 79-84
    Publisher: The AAAI Press(California)
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  • Characterising Optical Amplitude Histograms
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Conference on the Optical Internet/Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology 2003
    Conference Publication: Optical Networking: Technologies, Traffic Engineering and Management
    Page numbers: 67-70
    Publisher: EA Books(Sydney)
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  • Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Sharing Distributed Beliefs
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Eighth Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy
    Conference Publication: Information Security and Privacy
    Volume: 2727
    Page numbers: 214-225
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Detecting Reflector Attacks by Sharing Beliefs
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 46th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2003
    Conference Publication: Globecom '03 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
    Page numbers: 1358-1362
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Determining the required number of ports for optical cross-connects in GMPLS networks
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Conference on the optical internet/Australian conference on optical fibre technology.
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the conference on the optical internet/Australian conference on optical fibre technology.
    Page numbers: 523-526
    Publisher: EA Books(Sydney)
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  • Policies for Sharing Distributed Probabilistic Beliefs
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Twenty-Sixth Australasian Computer Science Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Australasian Computer Science Conference
    Page numbers: 285-290
    Publisher: Australian Computer Society(Sydney)
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  • Protection from distributed denial of service attacks using history-based IP filtering
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 2003 IEEE International Conference on Communications
    Conference Publication: Frontiers in Telecommunications: 2003 IEEE International Conference on Communications
    Page numbers: 482-486
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Routing and wavelength assignment over multi-fiber optical networks with no wavelength conversion
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The 7th IFIP Working Conference on Optical Network Design & Modelling
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ONDM 2003 Volume 1
    Page numbers: 881-900
    Publisher: IFIP TC6(Budapest)
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  • Visualisation of Power-Law Technologies
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Networks
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Networks
    Page numbers: 69-74
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Waveband grooming and IP integration in optical ring networks
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Conference on the optical internet/Australian conference on optical fibre technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the conference on the optical internet/Australian conference on opitcal fibre technology
    Page numbers: 103-106
    Publisher: EA Books(Sydney)
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Publications in 2002

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A probabilistic approach to detecting network scans
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 8th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2002)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings NOMS 2002 : 2002 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium - Management Solutions for the New Communications World
    Page numbers: 359-372
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Adjusted probabilistic packet marking for IP traceback
    Year: 2002
    Event name: NETWORKING 2002 : Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Preformance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communicaitons : Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Co
    Conference Publication: NETWORKING 2002 : Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference : Proceedings
    Page numbers: 697-708
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Defending Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using Selective Pushback
    Year: 2002
    Event name: the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications
    Page numbers: 411-429
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(California)
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  • Learning to share distributed probabilistic beliefs
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
    Conference Publication: Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference
    Page numbers: 371-378
    Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers(San Francisco)
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