I have recently graduated with my PhD and am working at Deutsche Telekom USA's new R&D Lab -- website coming soon! E-mail me at I was the Google Pizza Ambassador for the UMD CS Department for 2 years GnuPG key Cvs "--allow-root-list" patch Quick list of sun help links Quip about Full Disclosure Slides from a (pre-gradschool) host hardening security talk Pam Log service module Nload- network load monitor: nload.tgz Slurpie: a p2p parallel downloading protocol I am involved with the IRTF P2P Research Group and run the corresponding P2PRG Bibliography Project I am on the Graduate Student Government Housing Task Force Talk on How to Succeed in Graduate School

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Peer Reviewed Publications (reverse chronologically):

• Fixing Ally's Growing Pains with Velocity Modeling
  Adam Bender, Rob Sherwood, Neil Spring
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2008
  
• DisCarte: A Disjunctive Internet Cartographer
  Rob Sherwood, Adam Bender, Neil Spring
  ACM Sigcomm 2008
  
• Touring the Internet in a TCP Sidecar
  Rob Sherwood, Neil Spring
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2006
  Sidecar Project Page
  Sidecar IMC'06 Talk Slides
• A Platform for Unobtrusive Measurements on PlanetLab
  Rob Sherwood, Neil Spring
  USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS) 2006
  Sidecar Project Page
  Sidecar WORLDS'06 Talk Slides
• Fair File Swarming with FOX
  Dave Levin, Rob Sherwood, Bobby Bhattacharjee
  International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) 2006
• Misbehaving TCP Receivers Can Cause Internet-Wide Congestion Collapse
  Rob Sherwood, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Ryan Braud
  ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2005
  Slides from CCS05 talk
  Extended version of the paper (CS-TR-4737) [ps][pdf]
  Randomly Skipped Segments Patch for Linux 2.4.24
  CERT Advisory [VU#102014] CVE ID 2005-3675 Bugtraq ID: 15468 ISS X-Force ID: 23055
• Slurpie: A Cooperative Bulk Data Transfer Protocol .
  Rob Sherwood, Ryan Braud, Bobby Bhattacharjee
  IEEE Infocom 2004 Slides from talk [pdf][ps]
• Cooperative Peer Groups in NICE.
  Rob Sherwood, Seungjoon Lee, Bobby Bhattacharjee.
  Journal of Computer Networks (COMNET) Special Issue on Trust and Reputation in Peer-to-Peer Systems, 2005.
  (Revised edition of Cooperative Peer Groups in NICE - IEEE Infocom 2003)
• P5: A Protocol for Scalable Anonymous Communications.
  Rob Sherwood, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Aravind Srinivasan.
  Journal of Computer Security Vol 13, No. 6 2005, pages 839-876
  (A preliminary version of this paper was published in IEEE Security and Privacy 2002)

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