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2008

Eiji Hayashi, Nicolas Christin, Rachna Dhamija, and Adrian Perrig. Use Your Illusion: Secure Authentication Usable Anywhere. To appear in Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS'08). Pittsburgh, PA. July 2008.
See also (preliminary version, very different!): CMU CyLab Technical Report CMU-CyLab-07-011, August 2007.
[demo site]

Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. Security and Insurance Management in Networks with Heterogeneous Agents. To appear in Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08). Chicago, IL. July 2008.

Nicolas Christin, John Chuang, and Jens Grossklags. Economics-Informed Design of Content Delivery Networks. Invited chapter in R. Buyya, A.-M. Khan Pathan, A. Vakali (editors), Content Delivery Networks: Principles and Paradigms, chapter 7. Springer Verlag, Germany, July 2008.
[BibTeX]

Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. Security Investment (Failures) in Five Economic Environments: A Comparison of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous User Agents. To appear in Proceedings (online) of the 7th Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2008). Hannover, NH. June 2008.

Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. Secure or Insure? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Information Security Games. In Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'08), pages 209-218. Beijing, China. April 2008.
[paper (pdf, 223K)]  [BibTeX]

Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. Predicted and Observed User Behavior in the Weakest-Link Security Game. In Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology, and Security (UPSEC'08). San Francisco, CA. April 2008.
[paper (pdf, 128K)]  [paper (html)]  [BibTeX]

Hirokazu Sasamoto, Nicolas Christin, and Eiji Hayashi. Undercover: Authentication Usable in Front of Prying Eyes. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), pages 183-192. Florence, Italy. April 2008.
[paper (pdf, 618K)]    [BibTeX]

Alessandro Acquisti, Nicolas Christin, Adrian Perrig, and Bryan Parno. Countermeasures against Government-Scale Monetary Forgery. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC'08). Cozumel, Mexico. January 2008.
See also (extended version): CMU CyLab Technical Report CMU-CyLab-07-016, December 2007.
[paper (pdf, 40K)]    [BibTeX]

2007

Soon Hin Khor, Nicolas Christin, Tina Wong, and Akihiro Nakao. Power to the People: Securing the Internet One Edge at a Time. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM'07 Workshop on Large-Scale Attack Defense (LSAD), pages 89-96. Kyoto, Japan. August 2007.
[paper (pdf, 163K)]    [BibTeX]

Nicolas Christin, Jörg Liebeherr, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher. Enhancing Class-Based Service Architectures with Adaptive Rate Allocation and Dropping Mechanisms. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 15(3), pages 669-682. June 2007.
See also (older version): University of Virginia, Technical Report CS-2004-09.
[BibTeX]

Ahsan Habib, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. On the Feasibility of Switching ISPs in Residential Multihoming. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS 2007), pages 91-99. Chicago, IL. June 2007.
[paper (pdf, 276K)]   [BibTeX]

Keiji Takeda, Nicolas Christin, and Davar Pishva. Jouhou Sekyuriti ni Kansuru Torikumi Nitsuite no Saishin Doukou (Recent trends in information security challenges, in Japanese). Invited paper in Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics 19(3), Special Issue on Security and Trust, pages 200-208. June 2007.
[Abstract in English]     [BibTeX]

2006

Nicolas Christin and Jörg Liebeherr. The QoSbox: Quantitative Service Differentiation in BSD Routers. In Computer Networks 50(17), pages 3353-3374. December 2006.
See also (very preliminary version, quite different): University of Virginia, Technical Report CS-2001-28.
[BibTeX]

Victor Firoiu, Xiaohui Zhang, Emre Gündüzhan, and Nicolas Christin. Providing Service Guarantees in High-Speed Switching Systems with Feedback Output Queuing. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 17(5), pages 434-447, May 2006.
See also (older version): Nortel Networks, Technical Report arXiv:cs.NI/0406019.
[paper (pdf, 312K)]    [BibTeX]

Ahsan Habib, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. Taking Advantage of Multihoming with Session Layer Striping. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Global Internet Symposium (Global Internet 2006), pages 102-107. Barcelona, Spain. April 2006.
[paper (pdf, 122K)]   [slides (pdf, 388K)]    [BibTeX]

2005

Nicolas Christin and Jörg Liebeherr. Marking Algorithms for Service Differentiation of TCP Traffic. In Computer Communications 28(18), Special Issue on End-to-End Quality of Service Differentiation, pages 2058-2069. November 2005.
See also: University of Virginia, Technical Report CS-2003-04, February 2003.
[paper (pdf, 962K)]    [BibTeX]

Nicolas Christin, Andreas S. Weigend, and John Chuang. Content Availability, Pollution and Poisoning in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks. In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'05), pages 68-77. Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 2005.
[paper (pdf, 654K)]    [slides (pdf, 2M)]   [BibTeX]

Nicolas Christin and John Chuang. A Cost-Based Analysis of Overlay Routing Geometries. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'05, vol. 4, pages 2566-2577. Miami, FL. March 2005.
[paper (pdf, 498K)]   [slides (pdf, 916K)]   [BibTeX]

2004

Nicolas Christin, Jens Grossklags, and John Chuang. Near Rationality and Competitive Equilibria in Networked Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice & Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS), pages 213-219. Portland, OR. August 2004.
A preliminary version known as University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report p2pecon TR-2004-04-CGC (also arXiv:cs.GT/0404040) is available, but we prefer you cite the PINS paper.
[paper (pdf, 105K)]    [slides (pdf, 151K)]    [BibTeX]

Nicolas Christin and John Chuang. On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'04). Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 3279, pages 22-32. San Diego, CA. February 2004.
See also (preliminary version, quite different!): University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report p2pecon TR-2003-12-CC (also arXiv:cs.NI/0401010).
[LNCS paper]  [workshop paper (pdf, 181K)]    [slides (pdf, 448K)]    [BibTeX]

2003

Nicolas Christin. Quantifiable Service Differentiation for Packet Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, August 2003.
[dissertation (pdf, 3.3M)]    [slides (pdf, 2.4M)]    [BibTeX]

Nicolas Christin and Jörg Liebeherr. A QoS Architecture for Quantitative Service Differentiation. In IEEE Communications Magazine 41(6), Special Issue on Scalability in IP-Oriented Networks, pages 38-45. June 2003.
[paper (pdf, 99K)]    [BibTeX]

2002

Jörg Liebeherr and Nicolas Christin. Rate Allocation and Buffer Management for Differentiated Services. In Computer Networks 40(1), Special Issue on the New Internet Architecture, pages 89-110. September 2002.
[paper (pdf, 1M)]    [BibTeX]

Nicolas Christin and Jörg Liebeherr. A Scalable Service Architecture for Providing Strong Service Guarantees (invited paper). In Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks II (ITCOM'02), Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 4868, pages 31-42. Boston, MA. July 2002.
[paper (pdf, 261K)]    [slides (pdf, 2M)]    [BibTeX]

Nicolas Christin, Jörg Liebeherr, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher. A Quantitative Assured Forwarding Service. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'02, vol. 2, pages 864-873, New York, NY. June 2002. See also (long version): University of Virginia, Technical Report CS-2001-21, August 2001.
[paper (pdf, 338K)]    [slides (pdf, 2M)]    [BibTeX]

2001

Jörg Liebeherr and Nicolas Christin. JoBS: Joint Buffer Management and Scheduling for Differentiated Services. In Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS 2001), pages 404-418, Karlsruhe, Germany. June 2001.
[paper (ps.gz, 212K)]    [paper (pdf, 291K)]    [slides (pdf, 2.4M)]    [BibTeX]

2000

Jörg Liebeherr and Nicolas Christin. Buffer Management and Scheduling for Enhanced Differentiated Services. University of Virginia, Technical Report CS-2000-24, August 2000.
[paper (pdf, 1.2M)]    [BibTeX]