Publications
2022
C. H. Gomes Ferreira et al., "On Network Backbone Extraction for Modeling Online Collective Behavior", PLoS ONE, vol. 17, no. 9, p. e0274218, 2022, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274218.
G. Perna, M. Trevisan, D. Giordano, and I. Drago, "A First Look at HTTP/3 Adoption and Performance", Computer Communications, vol. 187, pp. 115–124, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.comcom.2022.02.005.
R. Valentim, I. Drago, F. Cerutti, and M. Mellia, "AI-based Sound-Squatting Attack Made Possible", in Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Genoa, Italy, 2022, pp. 448–453. doi: 10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00053.
T. Favale, D. Giordano, I. Drago, and M. Mellia, "What Scanners do at L7? Exploring Horizontal Honeypots for Security Monitoring", in Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Genoa, Italy, 2022, pp. 307–313. doi: 10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00037.
M. Boffa, G. Milan, L. Vassio, I. Drago, M. Mellia, and Z. Ben Houidi, "Towards NLP-based Processing of Honeypot Logs", in Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Genoa, Italy, 2022, pp. 314–321. doi: 10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00038.
F. Bergadano and I. Drago, "AI for Cybersecurity: from Adversarial Anomaly Detection to Intelligent Network Security Systems", in Proceedings of the Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Virtual Event, 2022, p. 4. [Online]. Available: https://www.ital-ia2022.it/
2021
L. Gioacchini, L. Vassio, M. Mellia, I. Drago, Z. B. Houidi, and D. Rossi, "DarkVec: Automatic Analysis of Darknet Traffic with Word Embeddings", in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Virtual Event, 2021, pp. 76–89. doi: 10.1145/3485983.3494863.
T. Favale, M. Trevisan, I. Drago, and M. Mellia, "α -MON: Traffic Anonymizer for Passive Monitoring", IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manage., vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 1233–1245, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2021.3057927.
C. H. G. Ferreira et al., "On the Dynamics of Political Discussions on Instagram: A Network Perspective", Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 25, p. 100155, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.osnem.2021.100155.
T. Guarnieri, I. Drago, Í. Cunha, B. Almeida, J. M. Almeida, and A. B. Vieira, "Modeling Large-Scale Live Video Streaming Client Behavior", Multimedia Systems, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1101–1124, 2021, doi: 10.1007/s00530-021-00788-4.
F. Soro, T. Favale, D. Giordano, L. Vassio, Z. B. Houidi, and I. Drago, "The New Abnormal: Network Anomalies in the AI Era", in Communication Networks and Service Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2021, pp. 261–288.
T. Rescio, T. Favale, F. Soro, M. Mellia, and I. Drago, "DPI Solutions in Practice: Benchmark and Comparison", in Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2021, pp. 37–42. doi: 10.1109/SPW53761.2021.00014.
G. Milan, L. Vassio, I. Drago, and M. Mellia, "RL-IoT: Reinforcement Learning to Interact with IoT Devices", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 2021, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1109/COINS51742.2021.9524260.
R. Valentim, I. Drago, M. Trevisan, F. Cerutti, and M. Mellia, "Augmenting Phishing Squatting Detection with GANs", in Proceedings of the CoNEXT Student Workshop, Virtual Event, 2021, pp. 3–4. doi: 10.1145/3488658.3493787.
M. Trevisan, D. Giordano, I. Drago, and A. S. Khatouni, "Measuring HTTP/3: Adoption and Performance", in Proceedings of the 19th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, Ibiza, Spain, 2021, pp. 1–8.
G. D. Gonçalves, I. Drago, A. B. Vieira, A. P. C. da Silva, and J. M. de Almeida, "A Study of Costs and Benefits of Content Sharing in Personal Cloud Storage", J Netw Syst Manage, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 30, 2021, doi: 10.1007/s10922-021-09598-5.
L. A. de S. Vieira, Í. Cunha, A. B. Vieira, and I. Drago, "Caracterização do Impacto de Incidentes de Aplicações em Redes e Usuários", in Anais do XXVI Workshop de Gerência e Operação de Redes e Serviços, Brazil, 2021, pp. 40–53. doi: 10.5753/wgrs.2021.17184.
2020
M. Trevisan, D. Giordano, I. Drago, M. M. Munafo, and M. Mellia, "Five Years at the Edge: Watching Internet from the ISP Network", IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 561–574, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2020.2967588.
M. Trevisan, F. Soro, M. Mellia, I. Drago, and R. Morla, "Does Domain Name Encryption Increase Users’ Privacy?", SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 16–22, 2020, doi: 10.1145/3411740.3411743.
C. H. Gomes Ferreira et al., "Unveiling Community Dynamics on Instagram Political Network", in Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science, Southampton, UK, 2020, pp. 231–240. doi: 10.1145/3394231.3397913.
T. Favale, M. Trevisan, I. Drago, and M. Mellia, "α-MON: Anonymized Passive Traffic Monitoring", in Proceedings of the 32nd International Teletraffic Congress, Osaka, Japan, 2020, pp. 10–18. doi: 10.1109/ITC3249928.2020.00010.
T. Favale, F. Soro, M. Trevisan, I. Drago, and M. Mellia, "Campus Traffic and E-Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic", Comput. Netw., vol. 176, p. 107290, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107290.
J. Manzoor, L. Cerdà-Alabern, R. Sadre, and I. Drago, "On the Performance of QUIC over Wireless Mesh Networks", J Netw Syst Manage, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1872–1901, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s10922-020-09563-8.
L. Davoli et al., "On Driver Behavior Recognition for Increased Safety: A Roadmap", Safety, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 55, 2020, doi: 10.3390/safety6040055.
F. Soro, M. Allegretta, M. Mellia, I. Drago, and L. M. Bertholdo, "Sensing the Noise: Uncovering Communities in Darknet Traffic", in Proceedings of the IEEE Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, Arona, Italy, 2020, pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1109/MedComNet49392.2020.9191555.
2019
M. Trevisan et al., "Towards Understanding Political Interactions on Instagram", in Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Hof Germany, 2019, pp. 247–251. doi: 10.1145/3342220.3343657.
A. D’Alconzo, I. Drago, A. Morichetta, M. Mellia, and P. Casas, "A Survey on Big Data for Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis", IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manage., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 800–813, 2019, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2019.2933358.
M. Trevisan, I. Drago, and M. Mellia, "PAIN: A Passive Web Performance Indicator for ISPs", Computer Networks, vol. 149, pp. 115–126, 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2018.11.024.
M. Trevisan and I. Drago, "Robust URL Classification With Generative Adversarial Networks", SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev., vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 143–146, 2019, doi: 10.1145/3308897.3308959.
F. Soro, I. Drago, M. Trevisan, M. Mellia, J. Ceron, and J. J. Santanna, "Are Darknets All The Same? On Darknet Visibility for Security Monitoring", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Paris, France, 2019, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1109/LANMAN.2019.8847113.
F. Rooke, V. Aquiles, A. B. Vieira, J. M. Almeida, and I. Drago, "Characterizing Usage Patterns and Service Demand of a Two-Way Car-Sharing System", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Big Social Data and Urban Computing, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2019, vol. 926, pp. 3–17. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11238-7_1.
J. Manzoor, L. Cerda-Alabern, R. Sadre, and I. Drago, "Improving Performance of QUIC in WiFi", in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2019, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1109/WCNC.2019.8886329.
M. Baldi, H. H. Song, A. Nucci, M. Mellia, M. Trevisan, and I. Drago, "Automatic Rule Generation for Flow Management in Software Defined Networking Networks", US20190007327A1, 2019
2018
M. Trevisan, D. Giordano, I. Drago, M. Mellia, and M. Munafo, "Five Years at the Edge: Watching Internet from the ISP Network", in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Heraklion, Greece, 2018, pp. 1–12. doi
L. Vassio, I. Drago, M. Mellia, Z. B. Houidi, and M. L. Lamali, "You, the Web, and Your Device: Longitudinal Characterization of Browsing Habits", ACM Trans. Web, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1–30, 2018, doi: 10.1145/3231466.
I. Drago, M. Mellia, and A. D’Alconzo, "Big Data in Computer Network Monitoring", in Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_26-1.
M. Trevisan, I. Drago, M. Mellia, H. H. Song, and M. Baldi, "AWESoME: Big Data for Automatic Web Service Management in SDN", IEEE Trans. Netw. Service Manag., vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 13–26, 2018, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2017.2785878.
M. Aldinucci et al., "HPC4AI: An AI-on-Demand Federated Platform Endeavour", in Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Ischia, Italy, 2018, pp. 279–286. doi: 10.1145/3203217.3205340.
M. Trevisan, I. Drago, and M. Mellia, "Measuring Web Speed From Passive Traces", in Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, Montreal QC Canada, 2018, pp. 83–83. doi: 10.1145/3232755.3232780.
J. Manzoor, R. Sadre, I. Drago, and L. Cerda-Alabern, "Is There a Case for Parallel Connections with Modern Web Protocols?", in Proceedings of the IFIP Networking Conference and Workshops, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018, pp. 1–9. doi: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2018.8696647.
2017
E. Bocchi, I. Drago, M. Mellia (2017) Personal Cloud Storage Benchmarks and Comparison. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 5 (4). pp 751-764. DOI 10.1109/TCC.2015.2427191.
G. Gonçalves, A.B. Vieira, I. Drago, A.P.C. Silva, J.M. Almeida (2017) Cost-Benefit Tradeoffs of Content Sharing in Personal Cloud Storage. In: Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS). Banff, Canada. pp. 32-42. DOI 10.1109/MASCOTS.2017.32.
T. Guarnieri, I. Drago, A.B. Vieira, I. Cunha, J.M. Almeida (2017) Characterizing QoE in Large-Scale Live Streaming. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Singapore, Singapore. pp. 1-7. DOI 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254062.
M. Trevisan, I. Drago, M. Mellia (2017) PAIN: A Passive Web Speed Indicator for ISPs. In: Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks (Internet-QoE). Los Angeles, CA, USA. pp. 7-12. DOI 10.1145/3098603.3098605.
J. Manzoor, I. Drago, R. Sadre (2017) How HTTP/2 is Changing Web Traffic and How to Detect it. In: Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA). Dublin, Ireland. pp. 1-9. DOI 10.23919/TMA.2017.8002899.
M. Trevisan, I. Drago, M. Mellia, M.M. Munafò (2017) Automatic Detection of DNS Manipulations. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). Boston, USA. pp. 4010-4015. DOI 10.1109/BigData.2017.8258415.
2016
G. Gonçalves, I. Drago, A.B. Vieira, A.P.C. Silva, J.M. Almeida (2016) The Impact of Content Sharing on Cloud Storage Bandwidth Consumption. IEEE Internet Computing Magazine. 20 (4). pp. 26-35. DOI 10.1109/MIC.2016.89.
G. Gonçalves, I. Drago, A.B. Vieira, A.P.C. Silva, J.M. Almeida, M. Mellia (2016) Workload Models and Performance Evaluation of Cloud Storage Services. Computer Networks. 109 (2). pp. 183-199. DOI 10.1016/j.comnet.2016.03.024.
I. Drago, F. Ricciato, R. Sadre (2016) Report from the 6th PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA). Computer Communication Review. 46(4). pp. 36-40. DOI 10.1145/3027947.3027954
M. Trevisan, I. Drago, M. Mellia (2016) Impact of Access Line Capacity on Adaptive Video Streaming Quality - A Passive Perspective. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks (Internet-QoE). Florianopolis, Brazil. pp. 7-12. DOI 10.1145/2940136.2940139.
M. Trevisan, I. Drago, M. Mellia, M. Baldi, H.H. Song (2016) WHAT: A Big Data Approach for Accounting of Modern Web Services. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). Washington, DC, USA. pp. 2740-2745. DOI 10.1109/BigData.2016.7840921.
J. Manzoor, I. Drago, R. Sadre (2016) The Curious Case of Parallel Connections in HTTP/2. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Montreal, Canada. pp. 174-180. DOI 10.1109/CNSM.2016.7818414.
G. Gonçalves, I. Drago, A.B. Vieira, A.P.C. Silva, J.M. Almeida (2016) Analysing Costs and Benefits of Content Sharing in Cloud Storage. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Fostering Latin-American Research in Data Communication Networks (LANCOMM). Florianopolis, Brazil. pp. 43-45. DOI 10.1145/2940116.2940128.
M. Trevisan, I. Drago, M. Mellia, M.M. Munafò (2016) Towards Web Service Classification using Addresses and DNS. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Traffic Analysis and Characterization (TRAC). Paphos, Cyprus. pp. 38-43. DOI 10.1109/IWCMC.2016.7577030.
L. Vassio, I. Drago, M. Mellia (2016) Detecting User Actions from HTTP Traces: Toward an Automatic Approach. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Traffic Analysis and Characterization (TRAC). Paphos, Cyprus. pp. 50-55. DOI 10.1109/IWCMC.2016.7577032.
E. Bocchi, I. Drago, M. Mellia (2016) Experiences of Cloud Storage Service Monitoring: Performance Assessment and Comparison. In: Book of Abstracts of the Cloud Services for Synchronisation and Sharing (CS3 Workshop). Zurich, Switzerland. pp. 13-13. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.44783.
2015
I. Drago, R.J. Hofstede, R. Sadre, A. Sperotto, A. Pras (2015) Measuring Cloud Service Health Using NetFlow/IPFIX: the WikiLeaks Case. Journal of Network and Systems Management. 23 (1). pp. 58-88. DOI 10.1007/s10922-013-9278-0.
E. Bocchi, I. Drago, M. Mellia (2015) Personal Cloud Storage: Usage, Performance and Impact of Terminals. In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CLOUDNET). Ontario, Canada. pp. 106-111. DOI 10.1109/CloudNet.2015.7335291.
G. Gonçalves, I. Drago, A.B. Vieira, A.P.C. Silva, J.M. Almeida (2015) Analyzing the Impact of Dropbox Content Sharing on an Academic Network (in Portuguese). In: Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC). Vitoria-ES, Brazil. pp. 100-109. DOI 10.1109/SBRC.2015.22.
2014
R.J. Hofstede, P. Celeda, B. Trammell, I. Drago, R. Sadre, A. Sperotto, A. Pras (2014) Flow Monitoring Explained: From Packet Capture to Data Analysis with NetFlow and IPFIX. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 16 (4). pp. 2037-2064. DOI 10.1109/COMST.2014.2321898.
G. Gonçalves, I. Drago, A.P.C. Silva, A.B. Vieira, J.M. Almeida (2014) Modeling the Dropbox Client Behavior. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). Sydney, Australia. pp. 1332-1337. DOI 10.1109/ICC.2014.6883506.
G. Gonçalves, I. Drago, A.P.C. Silva, A.B. Vieira, J.M. Almeida (2014) Characterizing and Modeling the Dropbox Workload (in Portuguese). In: Proceedings of the XXXII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC). Florianópolis-SC, Brazil. pp. 266-274. DOI 10.1109/SBRC.2014.32.
2013
I. Drago (2013) Understanding and Monitoring Cloud Services. PhD Thesis, University of Twente. CTIT Ph.D. thesis Series No. 13-279. ISBN 978-90-365-3577-9. DOI 10.3990/1.9789036535779.
I. Drago, R.O. Schmidt, R.J. Hofstede, A. Sperotto, M. Karimzadeh, B.R. Haverkort, A. Pras (2013) Networking for the Cloud: Challenges and Trends. PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation. 36(4). pp. 207-214. DOI 10.1515/pik-2013-0035.
I. Drago, E. Bocchi, M. Mellia, H. Slatman, A. Pras (2013) Benchmarking Personal Cloud Storage. In: Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). Barcelona, Spain. pp. 205-212. DOI 10.1145/2504730.2504762.
R.J. Hofstede, I. Drago, A. Sperotto, R. Sadre, A. Pras (2013) Measurement Artifacts in NetFlow Data. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement (PAM). Hong Kong, China. pp. 1-10. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-36516-4_1. [[ Best Paper Award ]]
2012
I. Drago, M. Mellia, M.M. Munafò, A. Sperotto, R. Sadre, A. Pras (2012) Inside Dropbox: Understanding Personal Cloud Storage Services. In: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). Boston, USA. pp. 481-494. DOI 10.1145/2398776.2398827. [[ Awarded with an IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2013 ]]
2011
R.J. Hofstede, I. Drago, A. Sperotto, A. Pras (2011) Flow Monitoring Experiences at the Ethernet-Layer. In: Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Energy-Aware Communications (EUNICE). Dresden, Germany. pp. 134-145. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-23541-2_15.
R.J. Hofstede, I. Drago, G.C.M. Moura, A. Pras (2011) Carrier Ethernet OAM: An Overview and Comparison to IP OAM. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS). Nancy, France. pp. 112-123. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21484-4_14.
I. Drago, R. Sadre, A. Pras (2011) Report of the Third Workshop on the Usage of NetFlow/IPFIX in Network Management. Journal of Network and Systems Management. 19(4). pp. 529-535. DOI 10.1007/s10922-011-9204-2.
I. Drago, R.R.R. Barbosa, R. Sadre, A. Pras, J. Schonwalder (2011) Report of the Second Workshop on the Usage of NetFlow/IPFIX in Network Management. Journal of Network and Systems Management. 19 (2). pp. 298-304. DOI 10.1007/s10922-010-9163-z.
Older
I. Drago, A. Pras (2010) Scalable Service Performance Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS). Zurich, Switzerland. pp. 175-178. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-13986-4_26.
A. Pras, A. Sperotto, G.C.M. Moura, I. Drago, R.R.R. Barbosa, R. Sadre, R.O. Schmidt, R.J. Hofstede (2010) Attacks by "Anonymous'' WikiLeaks Proponents not Anonymous. Technical Report TR-CTIT-10-41. CTIT. Enschede, the Netherlands.
E. Mendel, L.Z. Mariano, I. Drago, S. Loureiro, T. Rauber, F.M. Varejão (2008) Automatic Bearing Fault Pattern Recognition using Vibration Signal Analysis. In: Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE). Cambridge, UK. pp. 955-960. DOI 10.1109/ISIE.2008.4677026.
F. Fabris, I. Drago, F.M. Varejão (2008) A Multi-Measure Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Time Series Classification. In: Proceedings of 11th Ibero-American Conference on AI (IBERAMIA). Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 153-162. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-88309-8_16.