Imagine a network in which you address information: literally, packet-level addressing of *information* rather than hosts. For example, you may request the front page of El País with a request packet addressed to "the front page of El País"! Then the network forwards the request to some server that can produce the right data (possibly cached) and then delivers that data back to you. 

By 2025 ad fraud will be the second largest form of organized crime, resulting in losses of up to $1 trillion in damages to the society, creating an unprecedented burden to national economies and tax payers. In this talk you will gain deep insight in to various aspects of the problem; the three modes of ad fraud, money flows, botnet hunting, spam-site detection, adversary profiles and researcher safety. The talk is aimed at researchers, and includes many information that has never been disclosed to public.

Programmable networks or Software Defined Networking (SDN) offers new opportunities to manage computer networks: Make networks smart, introduce new service faster.

The availability of data on digital traces is growing to unprecedented sizes, but inferring actionable knowledge from large-scale data is far from being trivial.

Mixing time is a global property of a network that indicates how fast a random walk gains independence from its starting point. Mixing time is an essential parameter for many distributed algorithms, but especially those based on gossip.

In this talk I present our research results in the field of network protocols for secure host authentication and mobility,...

Middleboxes, such as proxies, firewalls and NATs play an important role in the modern Internet ecosystem. On one hand, they perform advanced functions, e.g. traffic shaping, security or enhancing application performance.

Targeting an increasing number of potential application domains, wireless sensor networks (WSN) have been the subject of intense research, in an attempt to optimize their performance while guaranteeing reliability in highly demanding scenarios.

The increasing demand for ubiquitous, high-speed and high-performance Internet access challenges the economic viability of mobile network operators which cannot cope with the rate of increase of wireless traffic. Alternate means are considered to deal with the excessive traffic demand that exploit the increase of wireless networks in unlicensed parts of the spectrum, as well as of handheld devices with multiple radio interfaces.

In this talk, I will discuss an architecture called Energy Aware Disaster Recovery Network using WiFi Tethering (E-DARWIN). The underlying idea is to seamlessly integrate mobile devices carried by the people in a disaster area into the emergency response network by exploiting the WiFi tethering capability that is ubiquitously available in nearly all smartphones already.