@conference {17531,
	title = {Fighting Spam with the NeighborhoodWatch DHT},
	booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2009},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009/04/19/25},
	pages = {1755 - 1763},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present DHTBL, an anti-spam blacklist built upon a novel secure distributed hash table (DHT). We show how DHTBL can be used to replace existing DNS-based blacklists (DNSBLs) of IP addresses of mail relays that forward spam. Implementing a blacklist on a DHT improves resilience to DoS attacks and secures message delivery, when compared to DNSBLs. However, due to the sensitive nature of the blacklist, storing the data in a peer-to-peer DHT would invite attackers to infiltrate the system. Typical DHTs can withstand fail-stop failures, but malicious nodes may provide incorrect routing information, refuse to return published items, or simply ignore certain queries. The neighborhoodwatch DHT is resilient to malicious nodes and maintains the O(logiV) bounds on routing table size and expected lookup time. NeighborhoodWatch depends on two assumptions in order to make these guarantees: (1) the existence of an on-line trusted authority that periodically contacts and issues signed certificates to each node, and (2) for every sequence of k + 1 consecutive nodes in the ID space, at least one is alive and non-malicious. We show how NeighborhoodWatch maintains many of its security properties even when the second assumption is violated. Honest nodes in NeighborhoodWatch can detect malicious behavior and expel the responsible nodes from the DHT.},
	keywords = {Communications Society, computer crime, cryptography, Databases, IP addresses, IP networks, on-line trusted authority, Peer to peer computing, peer-to-peer computing, peer-to-peer distributed hash table, Postal services, Relays, Resilience, Routing, Security, table size routing, Unsolicited electronic mail},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-3512-8},
	doi = {10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062095},
	author = {Bender,A. and Sherwood,R. and Monner,D. and Goergen,N. and Spring, Neil and Bhattacharjee, Bobby}
}
@conference {17575,
	title = {Clustering and server selection using passive monitoring},
	booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2002. Twenty-First Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2002},
	month = {2002///},
	pages = {1717- 1725 vol.3 - 1717- 1725 vol.3},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {We consider the problem of client assignment in a distributed system of content servers. We present a system called Webmapper for clustering IP addresses and assigning each cluster to an optimal content server. The system is passive in that the only information it uses comes from monitoring the TCP connections between the clients and the servers. It is also flexible in that it makes no a priori assumptions about network topology and server placement and it can react quickly to changing network conditions. We present experimental results to evaluate the performance of Webmapper.},
	keywords = {client assignment, client-server systems, clustering, content servers, Delay, distributed system, Educational institutions, Internet, IP addresses, Monitoring, network conditions, Network servers, Network topology, optimal content server, passive monitoring, server selection, Space technology, TCPIP, Transport protocols, Web pages, Web server, Webmapper},
	isbn = {0-7803-7476-2},
	doi = {10.1109/INFCOM.2002.1019425},
	author = {Andrews,M. and Shepherd,B. and Srinivasan, Aravind and Winkler,P. and Zane,F.}
}
