1. Thesis and Dissertation Collection, all items
An improved tarpit for network deception
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-03)
Networks are constantly bombarded with malicious or suspicious network traffic by attackers attempting to execute their attack operations. One of the most prevalent types of traffic observed on the network is scanning ...
Characterizing crowd participation and productivity of foldit through web scraping
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-03)
Citizen science, scientific work done by non-experts, is an emerging method of continuing scientific investigation. In recent years, Crowdsourced Science Games (CSSGs) have become a particular area of research. In this ...
Crowdsourcing physical network topology mapping with net.Tagger
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-03)
Despite significant research, the challenge of mapping the physical topology of large networks remains a relatively unsolved problem. Although it possesses numerous ramifications for Internet security and resiliency, ...
Detection and classification of Web robots with honeypots
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-03)
Web robots are automated programs that systematically browse the Web, collecting information. Although Web robots are valuable tools for indexing content on the Web, they can also be malicious through phishing, spamming, ...
GAPR2: a DTN routing protocol for communications in challenged, degraded, and denied environments
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-09)
This thesis explores the foundation of modern Disruption Tolerant Protocols. It introduces a previously unpublished protocol with high probability of delivery called the Geolocation Assisted Predictive Routing (GAPR) ...
Detection of active topology probing deception
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-09)
For all purposes and intents, being able to infer the topology of a network is crucial to both operators and adversaries alike. Tracer-oute is a common active probing technique but it may be subverted by deceptive responses. ...
Evaluating the limits of network topology inference via virtualized network emulation
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-06)
The Internet measurement community is beset by a lack of ground truth, or knowledge of the real, underlying network in topology inference experiments. While better tools and methodologies can be developed, quantifying the ...
Multi-resolution playback of network trace files
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-06)
Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) has put forth a requirement for a non-proprietary network traffic replay system that is user friendly and can provide both replay of a network trace file as well as ...
Application transparent HTTP over a disruption tolerant Smart-Net
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-09)
This research explores methods to increase the performance of HTTP traffic when operating on a network that is prone to disrup-tions. The SmartNet architecture is presented as an open and extensible software framework for ...
Fingerprinting reverse proxies using timing analysis of TCP flows
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
Reverse proxy servers are valuable assets to defend outside hosts from seeing the internal network structure upon which the reverse proxy is serving. They are frequently used to protect valuable files, systems, and internal ...