Projects and Software Releases

Active

• Mon(IoT)r Lab
  Understanding privacy, security, and bias in real Internet-of-Things deployments. (Project page)
• Dark Patterns
  Investigating the user interface designs that trick users into giving up data, money, time, and other valuable resources. (Project page)
• Wehe
  Measuring and revealing ISP's network policies, their implications for net neutrality, and their impact on applications. (Project page)
• Personal Virtual Networks
  Providing configurable security, privacy, performance---in every network you connect to as you move about the world. (Project page)
• Aqua, and other privacy-enhancing systems
  Practical and powerful privacy for network communication. (Project page)
• Understanding and Improving the Web's PKI (SSL/TLS)
  Measurements, analysis, and system designs to reveal how the Internet's most commonly used trust systems operate (and misfunction) in practice, and how we can make them more secure. (Project page)

Past Projects

• ReCon
  Automatically identifying users' personal information in network traffic and allowing them to control (change/modify) it. (Project page)
• Measurement and analysis of Internet routing
  Entails several threads that cover Internet meaasurement, modeling and experimentation. (Example publication 1, 2)
• Measuring mobile networks
  Understanding mobile Web browsers, app traffic, network infrastructure, policies and their impact on performance.
• Mobilyzer
  Crowdsourcing measurement of mobile Internet performance, now the engine for Mobiperf. (Project page, Visualization of measurements, Mobisys paper)
• Geopolitical Routing
  Understanding the geographic nature of Internet paths and their implications for performance, privacy and security. (Project page)
• Piigeon (created by Xiao (Sophia) Wang)
  Extension for Firefox that reveals Web login safety before you submit your credentials. (Project page)
• SwarmScreen
  Plugin for the Vuze (Azureus) BitTorrent client that provide downloading privacy through plausible deniability. (Project page)
• NEWS
  Plugin for the Vuze (Azureus) BitTorrent client that reliably finds problems in the network and raises alerts about them. Tens of thousands of users installed this software. (Project page)
• Ono
  Plugin for the Vuze (Azureus) BitTorrent client that uses CDN-based measurements to improve performance and reduce P2P impact on ISPs. Over 1 million users installed the plugin. (Project page)
• STRAW (STreet RAndom Waypoint)
  Vehicular mobility model implemented for the JiST/SWANS simulation platform. Currently downloaded more than 3,000 times. (Project page)
• SWANS++
  Sourceforge project that unifies updates and improvements to the JiST/SWANS simulation platform. Along with STRAW (see above), currently downloaded more than 3,000 times.(Project page)
• Ceratias
  Real-time visualization tool for the JiST/SWANS simulation platform. Also enables interaction with and online modification of the ongoing simulation, and can be detached/reattached dynamically for performance. (Part of SWANS++, see above for project page.)