Publications

Refereed Journal, Magazine, Conference, Workshop, and Poster Papers

• On Fast and Accurate Detection of Unauthorized Wireless Access Points Using Clock Skews
  Suman Jana and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  Accepted to appear in the ACM Sigmobile International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), September 2008.
  
  
• Advancing Wireless Link Signatures for Location Distinction
  Junxing Zhang, M. H. Firooz, Neal Patwari, and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  Accepted to appear in the ACM Sigmobile International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), September 2008.
  
  
• Statistical Trust Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Matthew Probst and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In the IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, December 2007.
  
  
• Best Effort Session-Level Congestion Control
  Siddharth Ramesh and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), October 2007.
  
  
• Robust Location Distinction Using Temporal Link Signatures
  Neal Patwari and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In the ACM Sigmobile International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), September 2007.
  
  
• A Connection Oriented Internet Architecture for Restricting Reachability
  Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, June 2007.
  
  
• The Flexlab Approach to Realistic Evaluation of Networked Systems
  Robert Ricci, Jonathon Duerig, Pramod Sanaga, Dan Gebardht, Mike Hibler, Kevin Atkinson, Junxing Zhang, Sneha Kumar Kasera, and Jay Lepreau
  In the 4th Usenix Symposium on Network System Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2007.
  
  
• Secure Ad Hoc Networks Using Firewalls
  Jun Cheol Park and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2007.
  
  
• Flexlab: A Realistic, Friendly, and Controlled Environment for Evaluating Networked Systems
  Jonathon Duerig, Robert Ricci, Junxing Zhang, Sneha Kumar Kasera and Jay Lepreau
  In the 5th Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HOTNETS), October 2006.
  
  
• An Application Centric Approach to Emulation of Internet Paths
  
Jonathon Duering, Robert Ricci, Junxing Zhang, Sneha Kumar Kasera and Jay Lepreau
Poster Paper. In the 3rd Usenix Symposium on Network System Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2006.


• Robust Multi-class Signaling Overload Control
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Jose Pinheiro, Catherine Loader, Tom LaPorta, Mehmet Karaul and Adiseshu Hari
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), November 2005. Technical Report (Longer version of the ICNP paper).
  
  
• Expected Data Rate: An Accurate High Throughput Path Metric for Multi-hop Wireless Routing
  Jun Cheol Park and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), October 2005.
  
  
• FairMAC: Fair Sharing of Multi-access Channels in WLAN Hotspots
  Prasun Sinha, Yuvaal Shavitt, Ramachandran Ramjee, Danny Raz and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In Proceedings of IEEE ICCCN, October 2005.
  
  
• Congestion Control Policies for IP-Based CDMA Radio Access Networks
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Ramachandran Ramjee, Sandra Thuel, Xin Wang
  In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, July-August 2005.
  
  
• Enhancing Cellular Multicast Performance Using Ad Hoc Paths
  Jun Cheol Park and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2005.
  


• Towards Composable Transport Protocols: TCP without Congestion Control
  
Roland Kempter, Bin Xin, and Sneha Kumar Kasera
Student Poster in ACM Sigcomm Conference, August 2004.


• A Profitable Multicast Business Model
Sneha Kumar Kasera, Markus Hofmann and Raymond E. Miller
In Computer Communications Journal, August 2004.

• Improving Reliable Multicast Using Active Parity Encoding Services
  Dan Rubenstien, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Don Towsley and Jim Kurose
  In Computer Networks Journal, January 2004.

• On Securely Enabling Intermediary-Based Services and Performance Enhancements for Wireless Mobile Users
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Semyon Mizikovsky, Ganapathi S. Sundaram and Thomas Woo
  In 2nd ACM Wireless Security Workshop (WiSe), September 2003.
  
  
• Robust Router Congestion Control Using Acceptance and Departure Rate Measures
  Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Catherine Loader, Xin Wang
  In Proceedings of the 18th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), September 2003.
  
  
• Congestion Control Policies for IP-Based CDMA Radio Access Networks
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Ramachandran Ramjee, Sandra Thuel, Xin Wang
  In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, April 2003.

• IP Paging Service for Mobile Hosts
  Ramachandran Ramjee, Li Li, Tom LaPorta and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks Journal, September 2002.
  
  
• Robust Rate-based Congestion Control
  Ganesh Gopalakrishnan and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  Student Poster in ACM Sigcomm Conference, August 2002.
  
  
• Fast and Robust Signaling Overload Control
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Jose Pinheiro, Catherine Loader, Mehmet Karaul, Adiseshu Hari, Tom LaPorta
  In 9th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), November 2001.
   
• Reliable Multicast in Multi-access Wireless LANs
  Joy Kuri and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks Journal, July/August 2001.
  
  
• IP Paging Service for Mobile Hosts
  Ramachandran Ramjee, Li Li, Tom LaPorta and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In ACM MOBICOM, July 2001.
   
• Buffer Requirements and Scheduling Policies for Multicast Repair Service,
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
  In 2nd Network Group Communication Workshop, Stanford University, November 2000.
  
  
• Scalable Reliable Multicast Using Multiple Multicast Channels
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Gisli Hjalmtysson, Don Towsley and Jim Kurose
  In  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, June 2000.
  
  
• Scalable Fair Reliable Multicast Using Active Services
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Mark Keaton, Diane Kiwior
  Jim Kurose, Don Towsley and Steve Zabele
  In IEEE Network Magazine (Special issue on Multicast), January/February 2000.
  
  
• Improving Reliable Multicast Using Active Parity Encoding Services
  Dan Rubenstien, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Don Towsley and Jim Kurose
  In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 1999.
  Longer version available as UMass Technical Report UM-CS-1998-79, July 1998.

• Reliable Multicast in Multi-access Wireless LANs,
  Joy Kuri and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 1999.

• A Comparison of Server-Based and Receiver-Based Local Recovery
  Approaches for Scalable Reliable Multicast
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
  In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 1998.
  Updated version available as UMass Technical Report UM-CS-1997- 69.

• Scalable Reliable Multicast Using Multiple Multicast Groups
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
  In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS conference, June 1997.
  Longer version available as UMassTechnical Report UM-CS-1996-73, October 1996.
   
• Dyanmic Activation and Deactivation of Repair Servers in a Multicast Tree
  Per-Oddvar Osland, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
  In Norwegian Computer Science Conference (NIK '99), November 1999.

• A High Performance Multimedia Server for Broadband Network Enviromment
  Manoj Kumar, Jack L. Kouloheris, Mary J. McHugh and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In Proceedings of Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference, IS&T/SPIE, January 1996.
  Earlier version available as IBM Research Report RC 20059, 1995.

Invited Papers   

• On Implementing Security at the Transport Layer
  Swaminathan Pichumani and Sneha Kumar Kasera
  In COMSWARE, January 2008 (Invited Paper).

• Securely Enabling Intermediary-Based Services
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Simon Mizikovsky, Ganapathy Sundaram, and Thomas Woo
  In Wireless Security Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 2, February 2004.
  
  
• Securely Enabling Intermediary-Based Services
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Simon Mizikovsky, Ganapathy Sundaram, and Thomas Woo
  In Wireless Security Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 2004.
  
  
• A Profitable Multicast Business Model
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Markus Hofmann and Raymond E. Miller
  In First New York Metro Area Networking Workshop in IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, March 2001.
  
  
• Measuring Internet/MBone Packet Loss and Delay: Experimental Results and Reflections on the Measurement Process
  Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, Maya Yajnik, S.B. Moon, Sneha Kumar Kasera
  DIMACS Workshop on Performance of Real Time Applications on the Internet, November 1996.

Other Technical/Research Reports

• Fair Sharing of Multi-Access Channels
  P. Sinha, Y. Shavitt, R. Ramjee, D. Raz, Sneha K. Kasera
  Bell Labs Technical Memorandum 10009669-010919-01TM, September 2001.
   
• Continuous Feedback Overload Control Algorithms for the UMTS Softswitch.
  C. Loader, J. Pinheiro, Sneha K. Kasera
  Bell Labs Technical Memorandum 10009628-010201-01TM, February 2001.
   
• Scalable Reliable Multicast in Wide Area Networks
  Sneha Kumar Kasera
  Ph.D. Thesis, August 1999.
   
• MBone Analysis Tool
  Sneha Kumar Kasera and Mike Rizkalla
  mbat.pdf.

• Exploring the Dynamic Behavior of the Internet Using IP Options
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
  UMass Technical Report UM-CS-1996-12, February 1996.
   
• Measurement of Join Latency on the Mbone
  A. Garg, Sneha K. Kasera, R. Kumar, Don Towsley
  UMass Technical Report, CMPSCI TR99-47, August 1999.

Internet Drafts

• Securely-Enabling Intermediary-Based Transport Services
  U. Blumenthal, I. Faynberg, S. Kasera, S. Mizikovsky, G, Sundaram, T, Woo
  Internet-draft draft-blumenthal-intermediary-transport-01.txt, October 2003.
  
  
• Intermediary-Based Transport Services
  I. Faynberg, S. Kasera, S. Mizikovsky, G, Sundaram, T, Woo
  Internet-draft draft-faynberg-intermediary-transport-00.txt, February 2003.
  
  
• IP Encapsulating Security Variable Payload (ESVP)
  Sneha Kumar Kasera, Editor.
  Internet-draft draft-kasera-esvp-00.txt, October 2002.
  

Invited Talks/Panel Presentations

• Fast and Robust Signaling Overload Control
  In the CCRC seminar series, Columbia University, November 2001.
   
• A Profitable Multicast Business Model
  Panel on Multicast Pricing, NGC 2000, Stanford University, November 2000.
  
  
• Scalable Reliable Multicast Using Active Services
  Panel on Active Networking, OPENSIG '99, Carnegie Melon University, November 1999.