Publications

2011

• Katie Siek and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Publish and Prosper or Procreate and Perish?".
  ACM-W CIS Newsletter: Celebrating, Informing, & Supporting Women in Computing Volume 3, Issue 2, Summer 2011.
• Andrew J. Kalafut, Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Touring DNS Open Houses for Trends and Configurations".
  IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking (ToN). In press.
• Craig A. Shue, Andrew J. Kalafut and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Abnormally Malicious Autonomous Systems and their Internet Connectivity".
  IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking (ToN). In press.
  
• Youngsang Shin, Minaxi Gupta and Steven A. Myers.
  "The Nuts and Bolts of a Forum Spam Automator".
  USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emerging Threats (LEET) 2011.
• Youngsang Shin, Minaxi Gupta and Steven A. Myers.
  "Prevalence and Mitigation of Forum Spamming".
  IEEE Infocom 2011 (acceptance rate: 15.96%).

2010

• Andrew J. Kalafut, Minaxi Gupta, Christopher A. Cole, Lei Chen and Nathan E. Myers.
  "An Empirical Study of Orphan DNS Servers in the Internet".
  ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2010 (acceptance rate: 22.3%).
• Andrew J. Kalafut, Minaxi Gupta, Pairoj Rattadilok and Pragneshkumar Patel.
  "Surveying DNS Wildcard Usage Among the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".
  ICST Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2010 (acceptance rate: 25%).
• Youngsang Shin, Steven A. Myers and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Saving Energy on WiFi With Required IPsec".
  ICST Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2010 (acceptance rate: 25%).
• Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "An Internet without the Internet Protocol".
  Elsevier Computer Networks Journal in press in 2010 (DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2010.06.009).
• Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Hiding in Plain Sight: Exploiting Broadcast for Practical Host Anonymity".
  Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2010 (invited paper).
• Andrew J. Kalafut, Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Malicious Hubs: Detecting Abnormally Malicious Autonomous Systems".
  IEEE Infocom Mini-Conference 2010 (acceptance rate: 24.2%).
  Press Coverage (Government Computer News (GCN)).
  Press Coverage (MIT Technology Review).
• Pawan Prakash, Manish Kumar, Ramana Rao Kompella and Minaxi Gupta.
  "PhishNet: Predictive Blacklisting to Detect Phishing Attacks".
  IEEE Infocom Mini-Conference 2010 (acceptance rate: 24.2%).

2009

• Minaxi Gupta, Gregory R. Travis, David A.D. Ripley and Douglous D. Pearson.
  "Project Bloom: Empowering the Security Research Community Through Data Products and Computing".
  IEEE Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec) 2009 (invited paper).
• Craig A. Shue, Andrew J. Kalafut and Minaxi Gupta.
  "A Unified Approach to Intra-Domain Security".
  International Symposium on Secure Computing (SecureCom), co-located with IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT) 2009 (invited paper).
• D. Kevin McGrath, Andrew J. Kalafut and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Phishing Infrastructure Fluxes All the Way".
  IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine's special issue on DNS Security 2009.
  Press Coverage (MIT Technology Review).
  Press Coverage (ACM TechNews).
• Craig A. Shue, Minaxi Gupta, John J. Lubia, Chin Hua Kong and Asim Yuksel.
  "Spamology: A Study of Spam Origins".
  Conference on Email and Anti Spam (CEAS) 2009.
  Press Coverage (MIT Technology Review).
• Youngsang Shin, Steven A. Myers and Minaxi Gupta.
  "A Case Study on Asprox Infection Dynamics".
  Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) 2009 (acceptance rate: 29.5%).
• Andrew J. Kalafut and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Pollution Resilience for DNS Resolvers".
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2009 (acceptance rate: 28%).
• Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Sensitive Data Requests: Do Sites Ask Correctly?".
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2009 (acceptance rate: 28%).
• Andrew J. Kalafut, Jacobus van der Merwe and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Communities of Interest for Internet Traffic Prioritization".
  IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI) 2009 (acceptance rate: 34.3%).
• Youngsang Shin, Minaxi Gupta and Steven A. Myers.
  "A Study of the Performance of SSL on PDAs".
  IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI) 2009 (acceptance rate: 34.3%).

2008

• Craig A. Shue, Minaxi Gupta and Matthew P. Davy.
  "Packet Forwarding with Source Verification"
  Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, vol. 52, issue 8, pages 1567-1582, June 2008.
• Minaxi Gupta, Makus Jakobsson, Andrew J. Kalafut and Sidney Stamm.
  "Crimeware and Peer-to-Peer Networks".
  Book chapter in Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses, edited by Jakobsson and Ramzan, 2008.
  Publisher: Symantec Press, ISBN:0-321-50195-0.
• Andrew J. Kalafut, Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Understanding Implications of DNS Zone Provisioning".
  ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2008 (acceptance rate: 17.3%).
• Craig A. Shue, Andrew J. Kalafut and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Exploitable Redirects on the Web: Identification, Prevalence, and Defense".
  USENIX Workshop On Offensive Technologies (WOOT) 2008.
  Press Coverage (The Washington Post).
  Press Coverage (The Herald Times).
  Press Coverage (Indianapolis NBC affiliate Channel 13 (WTHR)).
  Press Coverage (Indiana University News Room).
  Press Coverage (ACM TechNews).
  Press Coverage (SC Magazine).
• D. Kevin McGrath and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Behind Phishing: An Examination of Phisher Modi Operandi".
  USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) 2008 (acceptance rate: 30.9%). Anti-Phishing Working Group's (APWG) link to the paper is here.

2007

• Craig A. Shue, Andrew Kalafut and Minaxi Gupta.
  "The Web is Smaller than it Seems".
  ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2007 (acceptance rate: 28.8%).
• Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Projecting IPv6 Packet Forwarding Characteristics Under Internet-wide Deployment".
  ACM SIGCOMM IPv6 Workshop 2007 (acceptance rate: 29.7%).
• Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Packet Forwarding: Name-based Vs Prefix-based".
  IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI) 2007.
• Craig A. Shue, Minaxi Gupta and Steven A. Myers.
  "IPSec: Performance Analysis and Enhancements".
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2007.

2006

• Minaxi Gupta, Mostafa Ammar and Mustaque Ahamad.
  "Trade-offs Between Reliability and Overheads in Peer-to-Peer Reputation Tracking".
  Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, vol. 50, pp501-522, August 2006.
• Minaxi Gupta.
  "Pharming and Client Side Attacks".
  Book chapter in Phishing and Countermeasures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft, edited by Jakobsson and Myers, 2006.
  Publisher: Wiley, ISBN:0-471-78245-9.
• Minaxi Gupta and Craig A. Shue.
  "Spoofing and Countermeasures".
  Book chapter in Phishing and Countermeasures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft, edited by Jakobsson and Myers, 2006.
  Publisher: Wiley, ISBN: 0-471-78245-9.
• Andrew J. Kalafut, Abhinav Acharya and Minaxi Gupta.
  "A Study of Malware in Peer-to-Peer Networks".
  ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2006 (acceptance rate: 21.9%).
  Press Coverage (SC Magazine).
• Anne M. Faber, Minaxi Gupta and Camilo H. Viecco.
  "Revisiting Web Server Workload Invariants in the Context of Scientific Web Sites".
  SUPERCOMPUTING (SC) 2006 (acceptance rate: 22.6%).
• Youngsang Shin, Minaxi Gupta, Rob Henderson and Aaron Emigh.
  "Separating Wheat from the Chaff: A Deployable Approach to Counter Spam".
  USENIX 2nd Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic in the Internet (SRUTI) 2006.
• Camilo Viecco and Minaxi Gupta.
  "A Dense Wireless LAN Case Study".
  Indiana University Computer Science Department Technical Report (TR640), 2006.

2004/2005

• Lucy Cherkasova and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Analysis of Enterprise Media Server Workloads: Access Patterns, Locality, Content Evolution, and Rates of Change".
  IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking (ToN), vol. 12, pp 781-794, October 2004 (impact factor among all Computer Science publication venues: 2.05 (top 2.21%)).
• Craig A. Shue and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Spoofing-resistant Packet Routing for the Internet".
  Poster at IEEE International Conference in Network Protocols (ICNP) 2005.
• Craig A. Shue, Youngsang Shin, Minaxi Gupta and Jong Youl Choi.
  "Analysis of IPSec Overheads for VPN Servers".
  Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference in Network Protocols (ICNP) 2005.
  

Prior

• Minaxi Gupta and Mostafa Ammar.
  "Service Differentiation in Peer-to-Peer Networks Utilizing Reputations".
  ACM 5th International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC) 2003.
• Minaxi Gupta, Paul Judge and Mostafa Ammar.
  "A Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer Networks".
  ACM 13th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) 2003.
• Minaxi Gupta and Mostafa Ammar.
  "A Novel Multicast Scheduling Scheme for Multimedia Servers with Variable Access Patterns".
  IEEE 2003 International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2003.
• Minaxi Gupta, Paul Judge and Mostafa Ammar.
  "A Frequent-Sharer Program for Peer-to-Peer Systems".
  Georgia Tech Technical Report No. GIT-CC-03-01, 2003.
  Preliminary version of NOSSDAV 2003 paper.
• Lucy Cherkasova and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Characterizing Locality, Evolution, and Life Span of Accesses in Enterprise Media Server Workloads".
  ACM 12th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) 2002.
• Minaxi Gupta and Mostafa Ammar.
  "Providing Multicast Communication in a Differentiated Services Network Using Limited Branching Techniques".
  3rd International Conference on Internet Computing (IC) 2002.
• Minaxi Gupta and Mostafa Ammar.
  "Providing Multicast Communication in a Differentiated Services Network Using Limited Branching Techniques".
  Georgia Tech Technical Report No. GIT-CC-02-27, 2002.
  Extended version of IC 2002 paper with formalism.
• Lucy Cherkasova and Minaxi Gupta.
  "Analysis of Enterprise Media Server Workloads: Access Patterns, Locality, Dynamics, and Rate of Change".
  HP Labs Technical Report No. HPL-2002-56, 2002.
  Extended version of NOSSDAV 2002 paper with more results.
• Minaxi Gupta and Mani Subramanian.
  "Preprocessor Algorithm for Network Management Codebook".
  USENIX 1st Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Monitoring (ID) 1999.
• Minaxi Gupta and Mani Subramanian.
  "A Policy Manager for Enterprise Service Management".
  Position paper in IEEE/Comsoc Policy Workshop 1999.