Publications

2011

• These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For: Retrofitting Android to Protect Data from Imperious Applications
  P. Hornyack, S. Han, J. Jung, S. Schechter and D. Wetherall
  CCS 2011
  Stopping Android apps from leaking sensitive data
• Augmenting data center networks with multi-gigabit wireless links
  D. Halperin, S. Kandula, J. Padhye, P. Bahl, and D. Wetherall
  SIGCOMM 2011
  
• Measuring and Predicting Web Login Safety
  X. Wang, D. Choffnes, P. Kelley, B. Greenstein, and D. Wetherall
  Workshop on Measurement Up the Stack
  Transparency for Web login behavior
• Odessa: Enabling Interactive Perception Applications on Mobile Devices
  M. Ra, A. Sheth, L. Mummert, P. Pillai, D. Wetherall and R. Govindan
  MobiSys 2011
  Splitting applications between the mobile and cloud for performance
• Advancing the State of Home Networking
  K. Edwards, R. Grinter, R. Mahajan and D. Wetherall
  CACM
  
• TaintEraser: protecting sensitive data leaks using application-level taint tracking
  D. Zhu, J. Jung, D. Song, T. Kohno and D. Wetherall
  Operating System Review
  An x86 dynamic tainting system
• A Software Radio-based UHF RFID Reader for PHY/MAC Experimentation
  M. Buettner and D. Wetherall
  IEEE RFID 2011
  
• Dewdrop: An Energy-Aware Runtime for Computational RFID
  M. Buettner, B. Greenstein and D. Wetherall
  NSDI 2011
  Running programs on wirelessly-powered computers!
• Privacy Revelations for Web and Mobile Apps
  D. Wetherall, D. Choffnes, B. Greenstein, S. Han, P. Hornyack, J. Jung, S. Schechter, and X. Wang
  HotOS 2011
  A case for transparency of where your information goes
• Sensor Tricorder: What does that sensor know about me?
  G. Maganis, J. Jung, T. Kohno, A. Sheth and D. Wetherall
  HotMobile 2011
  
• Tool Release: Gathering 802.11n Traces with Channel State Information
  D. Halperin, W. Hu, A. Sheth and D. Wetherall
  Computer Communication Review
  How to gather real wireless traces with lots of RF data

2010

• Computer Networks, 5th edition (link to Companion site)
  Andrew Tanenbaum and David Wetherall
  Pearson Higher Education
  
• A "Gen 2" RFID Monitor based on the USRP
  Michael Buettner and David Wetherall
  Computer Communication Review
  A tool you can use to study RFID protocols
• Demystifying 802.11n Power Consumption
  Dan Halperin, Ben Greenstein, Anmol Sheth, and David Wetherall
  HotPower 2010
  Empirical data and implications
• Towards Trustworthy Mobile Sensing
  Peter Gilbert, Landon Cox, Jaeyeon Jung and David Wetherall
  HotMobile 2010
  
• RFID: From Supply Chains to Sensor Nets
  S. Roy, V. Jandhyala, J. Smith, D. Wetherall, B. Otis, R. Chakraborty, M. Buettner, D. Yeager, K. Chang, and A. Sample
  Proc. of the IEEE
  
• Predictable 802.11 Packet Delivery from Wireless Channel Measurements
  Dan Halperin, Wenjun Hu, Anmol Sheth, and David Wetherall
  SIGCOMM 2010
  Experimentally evaluates effective SNR for 802.11
• 802.11 with Multiple Antennas for Dummies
  Dan Halperin, Wenjun Hu, Anmol Sheth and David Wetherall
  Computer Communication Review
  Short MIMO tutorial for network researchers

2009

• SafeGuard: Safe Forwarding During Route Changes
  Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang and David Wetherall
  CoNEXT 2009
  Finds working paths even while the network goes through transient states
• A Flexible Software Radio Transceiver for UHF RFID Experimentation
  Michael Buettner and David Wetherall
  Technical Report UW-CSE-09-10-02
  
• Recognizing Daily Activities with RFID-based Sensors
  Michael Buettner, Richa Prasad, Matthai Philipose and David Wetherall
  Ubicomp 2009
  Shows that RFID and sensing can replace proximity detection for activity inference
• Enlisting ISPs to Improve Online Privacy: IP Address Mixing by Default
  Barath Raghavan, Tadayoshi Kohno, Alex Snoeren, and David Wetherall
  PETS 2009
  Looks at routing with mixed IP addresses for privacy
• "When I am on WiFi I am Fearless": Privacy Concerns & Practices in Everyday WiFi Use
  P. Klasna, S. Consolvo, J. Jung, B. Greenstein, L. LeGrand, P. Powledge and D. Wetherall
  CHI 2009
  Formative study of user imperceptions of the information they reveal when using WiFi
• Geofencing: confining 802.11 coverage areas to physical boundaries
  Anmol Sheth, Srini Seshan and David Wetherall
  Pervasive 2009
  Uses directional antennas to narrow the service region to an intended location

2008

• Privacy Oracle: a System for Finding Application Leaks Using Black-box Differential Testing
  Jaeyeon Jung, Anmol Sheth, Ben Greenstein, David Wetherall, Gabriel Maganis and Tadayoshi Kohno
  CCS 2008
  Finds application information leakage by looking for changes in output
• Revisiting Smart Dust with RFID Sensor Networks
  Michael Buettner, Ben Greenstein, Alanson Sample, Joshua Smith and David Wetherall.
  HotNets 2008
  Introduces RFID sensor networks and WISPs
• TVA: A DoS-limiting Network Architecture
  X. Yang, D. Wetherall, and T. Anderson
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  More mature capability-based design growing out of our earlier work
• Taking the sting out of carrier sense: Interference cancellation for wireless LANs
  Daniel Halperin, Tom Anderson, and David Wetherall
  MobiCom 2008
  USRP experiments of interference cancellation for Zigbee/Wifi settings.
• An Empirical Study of UHF RFID Performance
  Michael Buettner and David Wetherall
  MobiCom 2008
  A study of the low-level behavior of real RFID tags and readers
• Improving Wireless Privacy with an Identifier-Free Link Layer Protocol
  Ben Greenstein, Damon McCoy, Jeffrey Pang, Tadayoshi Kohno, Srinivasan Seshan, David Wetherall
  MobiSys 2008 Best Paper Award
  Encrypts all the bits including addresses, associations, other headers
• Studying Black Holes in the Internet with Hubble
  Ethan Katz-Bassett, Harsha Madhyastha, John John, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall, Tom Anderson
  NSDI 2008
  Internet-scale monitoring for connectivity problem spots
• Reducing Network Energy Consumption via Sleeping and Rate-Adaptation
  Sergiu Nedevschi, Lucian Popa, Gianluca Iannaccone, Sylvia Ratnasamy, David Wetherall
  NSDI 2008
  Protocols to let switches/routers sleep between packet bursts
• Passport: Secure and Adoptable Source Authentication
  Xin Liu, Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, and David Wetherall
  NSDI 2008
  Light-weight and granular cryptography to prevent source address spoofing
• Wirelessly-Charged UHF Tags for Sensor Data Collection
  Daniel Yeager, Richa Prasad, David Wetherall, Pauline Powledge and Joshua Smith
  RFID 2008
  A prototype of RFID meets sensor networks

2007

• Interference cancellation: better receivers for a new wireless MAC
  Daniel Halperin, Josephine Ammer, Thomas Anderson, and David Wetherall.
  HotNets 2007

• Tryst: The Case for Confidential Service Discovery
  Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Damon McCoy, Srinivasan Seshan, and David Wetherall.
  HotNets 2007

• 802.11 User Fingerprinting
  J. Pang, B. Greenstein, R. Gummadi, S. Seshan and D. Wetherall
  Mobicom 2007

• Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of Interference on 802.11 Networks
  R. Gummadi, D. Wetherall, B. Greenstein, and S. Seshan
  SIGCOMM 2007

• Can Ferris Bueller Still Have His Day Off? Protecting Privacy in the Wireless Era
  B. Greenstein, R. Gummadi, J. Pang, M. Chen, T. Kohno, S. Seshan and D. Wetherall
  HotOS 2007

• Mutually Controlled Routing with Independent ISPs
  R.Mahajan, D. Wetherall, and T.Anderson
  NSDI 2007

2006

• Towards IP Geolocation using Delay and Topology Measurements
  E. Katz-Bassett, J. John, A. Krishnamurthy, D.Wetherall, T. Anderson and Y. Chawathe
  IMC 2006

• Source Selectable Path Diversity via Routing Deflections
  X. Yang and D. Wetherall
  SIGCOMM 2006

• Measurement-based Models of Delivery and Interference
  C. Reis, R. Mahajan, D. Wetherall and J. Zahorjan
  SIGCOMM 2006

• Analyzing the MAC-level behavior of Wireless Networks in the Wild
  R. Mahajan, M. Rodrig, D. Wetherall and J. Zahorjan
  SIGCOMM 2006

• Efficient and Secure Source Authentication with Packet Passports
  X. Liu, X. Yang, D. Wetherall and T. Anderson
  SRUTI 2006

• Improved Access Point Selection
  A. Nicholson, Y. Chawathe, M. Chen, B. Noble and D. Wetherall
  MobiSys 2006

2005

• A DOS-limiting network architecture
  X. Yang, D. Wetherall and T. Anderson
  SIGCOMM 2005
  Capability-based DDOS defense.

• Rapid and Efficient Detection of Distributed Anomalous Aggregates
  A. Jain and D. Wetherall
  Technical Report UW-CSE-07-08-02 (May 2005)
  Unpublished paper that shows early work on distributed monitoring systems.

• Measurement-based Characterization of 802.11 in a Hotspot Setting
  M. Rodrig, C. Reis, R. Mahajan, D. Wetherall, and J. Zahorjan
  SIGCOMM 2005 Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Wireless Network Design and Analysis (E-WIND)
  One of the first PHY and MAC analyses of wireless traces

• Negotiation-Based Routing Between Neighboring ISPs
  R. Mahajan, D. Wetherall, and T. Anderson
  NSDI 2005
  Argues that ISPs can jointly select routes that are better for both than unilateral choices (early-exit).

• Sustaining Cooperation in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
  R. Mahajan, M. Rodrig, D. Wetherall, and J. Zahorjan
  NSDI 2005
  Uses anonymous message probes to detect and discourage free-riders.

2004

• Improving the Reliability of Internet Paths with One-hop Source Routing
  K. Gummadi, H. Madhyastha, S. Gribble, H. Levy, and D Wetherall
  OSDI 2004
  Concludes that a random choice of a waypoint yields most of the gains of source routing for reliability.

• Towards Coordinated Interdomain Traffic Engineering
  R. Mahajan, David Wetherall, and T. Anderson
  HotNets 2004
  Early version of the approach that lead to the ISP negotiation paper in NDSI 2005.

• A Wakeup Call for Internet Monitoring Systems: The Case for Distributed Triggers
  A. Jain, J. Hellerstein, S. Ratnasamy and D. Wetherall
  HotNets 2004

• System support for pervasive applications
  R. Grimm, J. Davis, E. Lemar, A. MacBeth, S. Swanson, T. Anderson, B. Bershad, G. Borriello, S. Gribble, and D. Wetherall.
  TOCS (Nov 2004)

• Experiences Applying Game Theory to System Design
  R. Mahajan, M. Rodrig, D. Wetherall and J. Zahorjan
  SIGCOMM 2004 Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives and Game Theory in Networked Systems (PINS)
  Thoughts after trying to solve two systems problems with game theory and mechanism design.

• Measuring ISP Topologies with Rocketfuel
  Neil Spring, Ratul Mahajan, David Wetherall, and Tom Anderson
  TON (Feb 2004) Bennett Prize
  A comprehensive effort to map ISPs. An earlier version appeared in SIGCOMM 2002

2003

• Preventing Internet Denial-of-Service with Capabilities
  T. Anderson, T. Roscoe and D. Wetherall
  HotNets 2003
  Start of DOS work on forwarding architectures based on receiver permission

• Reverse Engineering the Internet
  N. Spring, D. Wetherall and T. Anderson
  HotNets 2003
  Puts forward the case for a collaborative, community measurement and inferencing effort.

• User-level Internet Path Diagnosis
  R. Mahajan, N. Spring, D. Wetherall and T. Anderson
  SOSP 2003
  Tools for locating loss, queuing and reordering on Internet paths. See the Tulip page.

• Upgrading Transport Protocols with Untrusted Mobile Code
  P. Patel, A. Whitaker, D. Wetherall, J. Lepreau and T. Stack
  SOSP 2003
  An active network approach to upgrading TCP versions and other transports at end-systems.

• TCP Meets Mobile Code
  P. Patel, A. Whitaker, D. Wetherall and J. Lepreau
  HotOS 2003
  Workshop version of the above, presents the case.

• Scriptroute: A Public Internet Measurement Facility
  N. Spring, D. Wetherall and T. Anderson
  USITS 2003 Best Student Paper Award
  Flexible, open system for measurement that ran on PlanetLab. See the Scriptroute page for info.

2002

• A Study of the Performance Potential of DHT-based Overlays
  S. Jain, R. Mahajan and D. Wetherall
  USITS 2001

• Inferring Link Weights Using End-to-End Measurements
  Ratul Mahajan, Neil Spring, David Wetherall, and Tom Anderson
  Internet Measurement Workshop 2002
  Shows how descriptive link weights, e.g., for OSPF, can be reverse-engineered with just traceroute data.

• Design Considerations for Robust Internet Protocols
  T. Anderson, S. Shenker, I. Stoica and D. Wetherall
  HotNets 2002

• Understanding BGP Misconfiguration
  Ratul Mahajan, David Wetherall, and Tom Anderson
  SIGCOMM 2002
  Presents the first empirical study of global routing mistakes and their effects on the Internet.

• Forwarding Without Loops in Icarus
  Andrew Whitaker and David Wetherall
  OPENARCH 2002
  Rapid loop detection with a Bloom filter-like TTL to promote safe forwarding experimentation.

2001

• Robust Congestion Signaling
  David Ely, Neil Spring, David Wetherall, Stefan Savage, and Tom Anderson,
  ICNP 2001
  A practical ECN design that eliminates previously identified vulnerabilities. See RFC3540 and below.

• Controlling High-Bandwidth Flows at the Congested Router
  Ratul Mahajan, Sally Floyd, and David Wetherall
  ICNP 2001

• Network Support for IP Traceback
  Stefan Savage, David Wetherall, Anna Karlin and Tom Anderson,
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (June 2001)
  Mature version of the earlier SIGCOMM paper that launched the probabilistic packet marking approach to the traceback

• Systems Directions for Pervasive Computing
  R. Grimm, J. Davis, B. Hendrickson, E. Lemar, A. MacBeth, S. Swanson, T. Anderson, B. Bershad, G. Borriello, S. Gribble and D. Wetherall.
  HotOS 2001

• Alpine: A User-Level Infrastructure for Network Protocol Development
  David Ely, Stefan Savage, and David Wetherall,
  USITS 2001
  

2000

• A System Architecture for Pervasive Computing
  Robert Grimm, Tom Anderson, Brian Bershad, and David Wetherall.
  SIGOPS European Workshop 2000

• A Protocol Independent Technique for Eliminating Redundant Network Traffic
  Neil T. Spring and David Wetherall SIGCOMM 2000
  Applies Manber's algorithms for finding similar content to network traffic, finding that much of it is redundant even after Web caching, etc.

1999

• Active Network Vision and Reality:  Lessons from a Capsule-Based System
  David Wetherall
  SOSP 1999
  This is the "experience" paper on ANTS.

• TCP Congestion Control with a Misbehaving Receiver
  Stefan Savage, Neal Cardwell, David Wetherall and Tom Anderson
  CCR (OCt 1999)
  More recent papers on robust congestion signaling above follow up on this work.

• Next Century Challenges: RadioActive Networks
  Vanu Bose, David Wetherall, and John Guttag
  Mobicom 1999
  A position paper on applying active network ideas to the physical layer of wireless networks.

• ANTS: Network Services without the Red Tape
  David Wetherall, John Guttag and David Tennenhouse
  IEEE Computer (April 1999)
  A magazine article describing the active network approach and ANTS.

• Service Introduction in an Active Network
  David Wetherall
  Ph.D. Thesis, available as MIT/LCS/TR-773, February 1999.
  This is the most detailed source of information on the design and use of ANTS.

1998

• Introducing New Internet Services: Why and How
  David Wetherall, U. Legedza, and John Guttag
  IEEE Network (July/August 1998)

• Increasing Effective Link Bandwidth by Suppressing Replicated Data
  Jonathan Santos and David Wetherall
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference 1998
  Earlier version of work on redundant content removal

• ANTS: A Toolkit for Building and Dynamically Deploying Network Protocols
  David Wetherall, John Guttag, and David Tennenhouse
  OPENARCH 1998
  The first paper describing the design and implementation of ANTS.

1997

• Improving The Performance of Distributed Applications Using Active Networks
  U. Legedza, David Wetherall and John Guttag
  INFOCOM 1998

• A Survey of Active Network Research
  David Tennenhouse, J. M. Smith, W. D. Sincoskie, David Wetherall, and G. J. Minden
  IEEE Communications (Jan. 1997)

1996

• The ACTIVE IP Option
  David Wetherall and David Tennenhouse
  SIGOPS European Workshop 1996

• Towards an Active Network Architecture
  David Tennenhouse and David Wetherall
  Computer Communication Review (April 1996) SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Award 
  The early paper putting forth the case for active networks.

1995

• Extending Tcl for Dynamic Object-Oriented Programming
  David Wetherall and C. J. Lindblad
  Tcl/Tk Workshop 1995

• ViewStation Applications: Implications for Network Traffic
  C. J. Lindblad, D.J. Wetherall, W. Stasior, J. F. Adam, H. H. Houh, M. Ismert, D. Bacher, B. Phillips, and D. L. Tennenhouse
  IEEE JSAC (1995)

1994

• The VuSystem: A Programming System for Visual Processing of Digital Video
  C. J. Lindblad, D. Wetherall, and D. L. Tennenhouse
  ACM Multimedia 1994

• An Interactive Programming System for Media Computation
  David Wetherall
  MS Thesis, available as technical report MIT-LCS-TR-640 (September 1994)

• ViewStation Applications: Intelligent Video Processing Over A Broadband Local Area Network
  C. J. Lindblad, D. Wetherall, W. Stasior, B. Phillips, D. Bacher, J. F. Adam, H. H. Houh, M. Ismert, D. L. Tennenhouse
  USENIX Symposium on High-Speed Networking (August 1994)

• Active Pages: Intelligent Nodes on the World Wide Web
  D. Wetherall, C. J. Lindblad, and H. H. Houh
  1st World Wide Web Conference (1994)

• A Software-Oriented Approach to the Design of Media Processing Environments
  D. L. Tennenhouse, J. F. Adam, D. Carver, H. H. Houh, M. Ismert, C. J. Lindblad, W. Stasior, D. Wetherall, D. Bacher, and T. Chang
  International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1994