I am a Graduate Research Assistant in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland My main areas of research are in networking and security and I am currently looking for academic jobs 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):

1. DisCarte: A Disjunctive Internet Cartographer
   Rob Sherwood, Adam Bender, Neil Spring
   ACM Sigcomm 2008
   
2. 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
3. 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
4. Fair File Swarming with FOX
   Dave Levin, Rob Sherwood, Bobby Bhattacharjee
   International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) 2006
5. 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]
6. Slurpie: A Cooperative Bulk Data Transfer Protocol .
   Rob Sherwood, Ryan Braud, Bobby Bhattacharjee
   IEEE Infocom 2004 Slides from talk [pdf][ps]
7. 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)
8. 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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