Jack Brassil - Publications by Topic

Cloud/Data Center Networking

• "CloudJoin: Experimenting at scale with Hybrid Cloud Computing," Jack Brassil, Irene Kopaliani, 2020 IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF), April 2020. 2nd Best Paper Award
• "Performance Isolation in Network and Computing Systems with Multiple Inputs," J. Brassil, Journal of Communications: Special Issue on Advances in Communications & Networking, vol.7, No. 1, 2012.
• "Analyzing Flow Isolation in Shared Resource Systems", J. Brassil, Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'11), Maui, HI, August 2011.
• "Automating Network Monitoring on Experimental Testbeds", M. Golightly, J. Brassil, USENIX Security Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET'11), San Francisco, August 2011.
• "Physical Layer Network Isolation in Multi-Tenant Clouds", J. Brassil, ICDCS 2010 Workshop on Security & Privacy in Cloud Computing (SPCC'10 ), Genoa, Italy, June 2010.

Wireless Networking

• "Densifying NextG Cells with Wireless Backhaul," J. Brassil, 2024 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS 2024), Girona, Spain, 2024.
• "Investigating Integrated Access and Backhaul on the Aether 5G Testbed", J. Brassil, 2021 IEEE 4th 5G World Forum (5GWF), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2021, pp. 281-286.
• "Aggregating Bandwidth for Multi-homed Mobile Collaborative Communities," P. Sharma, S.J. Lee, J. T. Brassil, K. Shin, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol.6, no.3, March 2007.
• "Improving Aggregated Channel Performance through Decentralized Channel Monitoring," P. Sharma, S.J. Lee, J. T. Brassil, K. Shin, Computer Networks, vol. 50, no. 11 August 2006, pp. 1675-1691.
• "Handheld Routers: Intelligent Bandwidth Aggregation for Mobile Collaborative Communities", P. Sharma, S.J. Lee, J. T. Brassil, K. Shin, BroadNets 2004, San Jose, CA, Oct 2004, pp. 345-356.
• "Distributed Channel Monitoring for Wireless Bandwidth Aggregation", P. Sharma, S.J. Lee, J. Brassil, K. Shin, Proceedings of Networking 2004, Springer-Verlag, Athens, Greece, pp. 345-356, May 2004.

Core Networking

• "Network Traffic as a Federated Testbed Service", J. Brassil, 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2022, pp. 450-455.
• "Experience-Driven Research on Programmable Networks," Hyojoon Kim, Xiaoqi Chen, Jack Brassil, Jennifer Rexford, ACM Sigcomm Computer Communication Review (CCR), January 2021.
• "The CHART System: A High-Performance, FairTransport Architecture Based on Explicit-Rate Signaling," J. Brassil, R. McGeer, R. Rajagopalan, P. Sharma, P. Yalagandula, S. Banerjee, D.P. Reed, S.-J. Lee, A. Bavier, L. Peterson, L. Roberts, A. Henderson, B. Khorram, S. Zhang, S. Sohn, B.L. Mark, C. Heiter, J. Spies, N. Watts, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 26-35, Jan. 2009.
• "Network Integrated Transparent TCP Accelerator," J.-K. Lee, P. Sharma, J. Tourrilhes, R. McGeer, J. Brassil, A. Bavier, Proceedings of AINA 2010, April 2010.
• "The Case for Service Overlays (Position Paper)", J.T. Brassil, B. Mark, R. McGeer, S. Schwab, P. Sharma, P. Yalagandula, Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'09), San Francisco, CA, 2009.
• "Networking Technologies in the Developing World", M.E. Fiuczynski, R. McGeer, J.T. Brassil, L.L. Peterson, D.P. Reed, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, January 2008.
• "Improving VPN Performance over Multiple Access Links", J. Brassil, R. McGeer, R. Rajagopalan, A. Bavier, L. Roberts, B. Mark, S. Schwab Broadnets 2008, London UK, 2008.
• "Performance of an Adaptive Routing Overlay Under Dynamic Link Impairments", B. Mark, S. Zhang, J. Brassil, et al., Proceedings of Milcom'07, Orlando FL, 2007.
• "NATALIE: An Adaptive, Network-Aware Traffic Equalizer", Y. He, J. Brassil, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'07), Glasgow UK, June 2007.
• "Networking Technologies in the Developing World", M.E. Fiuczynski, R. McGeer, J.T. Brassil, L.L. Peterson, D.P. Reed, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, January 2008.
• "Congestion-triggered Multipath Routing based on Shortest Path Information", S. Sohn, B.L. Mark, J.T. Brassil, Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'06), Arlington, VA, pp. 191-196, Oct. 2006.
• "The CHART System: Architecture and Performance," J. Brassil, R. McGeer, N. Watts, S. Banerjee, P. Sharma, P. Yalangadula, D. Reed, HP TechCon'07, San Antonio TX, April 2007.
• "Multi-path Routing Overlays: Opportunities and Problems," J. Brassil, A. Bavier, B. Mark, DARPA Workshop on Routing Protocols and Management, Arlington VA, 2007.
• "Increasing TCP Throughput with an Enhanced Internet Control Plane", A. Bavier, et al, Milcom 2006, Washington DC, October 2006.
• "GENI Component Reference Design", J. Brassil (Ed.), GENI Design Document GDD-06-13, October 2006.
• "Performance Characterization of Traffic Equalizers on Heterogeneous Communication Links", J. Li, J. Brassil, Proceedings of QShine'06, Waterloo CA, August 2006.
• "An Empirical Study of Bonded Heterogeneous Access Links," J. T. Brassil, 14th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2005) , Crete, September 2005.
• "Strict Peak Rate Enforcement at the ATM Network Entry Point," J. T. Brassil, The 31st Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Univ. of Illinois, September, 1993, pp. 197-206.
• "The Manhattan Street Network: A High Performance, Highly Reliable Metropolitan Area Network," J. T. Brassil, A. K. Choudhury, N. F. Maxemchuk, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, vol. 26, 6-8, March, 1994, pp. 841-858.
• "Peak Rate Regulation Maintains Service Quality in ATM LAN/WAN Integration," J. Brassil, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'94, vol. 2, Toronto, June, 1994, pp. 902-909.
• "Overcoming Reservation Latency in an ATM PON," J. Brassil, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom'99, pp. 1155-1161, December 1999.
• "Nonuniform Traffic in the Manhattan Street Network," J. T. Brassil and R. L. Cruz, Proceedings of ICC'91, vol. 3, pp. 1647-1651, June, 1991. Reprinted in Performance Evaluation of High-Speed Switching Fabrics and Networks, T. Robertazzi (Ed.), IEEE Press, 1992.
• "Nonuniform Traffic in the Manhattan Street Network," J. T. Brassil and R. L. Cruz, Performance Evaluation, vol. 25, pp. 233-242, 1996.
• "ATM LANs: Implementation and Experience with an Emerging Technology," J. Brassil, V. Frost, I. Leslie, B. Lyles, Guest Editors, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 13 no. 4, May 1995, pp. 617-619.
• "Broadband Networks Using Combined Trunk Group and Deflection Routing," J. T. Brassil and R. L. Cruz, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, pp. 935-940, March, 1991.
• "Bounds on Maximum Delay in Networks with Deflection Routing," J. T. Brassil and R. L. Cruz, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol 6, no 7, July 1995, pp. 724-732.
• "Bounds on Maximum Delay in Networks with Deflection Routing," J. T. Brassil and R. L. Cruz, Proceedings of the 29th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, July, 1991.
• "Deflection Routing in Certain Regular Networks," J. T. Brassil, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, 1991.

Location Services

• "Traffic Signature-Based Mobile Device Location Using Authentication," J. Brassil, P.K. Manadhata, R. Netravali, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 13, pp. 2156-2169, 2014.
• "Authenticating a Mobile Device's Location Using Voice Signatures," Jack Brassil, Ravi Netravali, Stuart Haber, Pratyusa Manadhata, Prasad Rao, 8th Intl. Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob'2012), Barcelona, Spain, October 2012.
• "Securing a Femtocell-based Location Service," J. Brassil, P.K. Manadhata, Intl. Conference on Selected Topic in Mobile & Wireless Networking, (ICOST 2012), July 2012.
• "Verifying the Location of a Mobile J. Brassil, P.K. Manadhata, Device User," Proc. of MobiSec 2012, June 2012. (Best Paper Award)
• "Proving the Location of a Mobile Device User," J. Brassil, P.K. Manadhata, 2012 Virginia Tech Wireless Symposium, May, 2012.
• "Femtocell-assisted Location Authentication (short paper)", Ravi Netravali, Jack Brassil, 18th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2011.

Internet Streaming Media

• "Large-Scale Personalized Video Streaming with Program Insertion Proxies," J. Brassil, T. Kim, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 42, no. 8, August 2004.
• "Smoothing Coarse-Grain Rate Increases to Improve Streaming Media Service Quality," J. T. Brassil, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 2004.
• "Dynamic Program Insertion in High Quality Video over IP", T. Kim, J. T. Brassil, Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'03), Monterey CA, June 2003.
• Structuring Internet Media Streams with Cueing Protocols," J. T. Brassil, H. Schulzrinne, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 10, no. 4, August 2002, pp. 466-476.
• "CDNs for Personal Broadcasting and Individualized Reception", S. Banerjee, J. Brassil, A. Dalal, E. Perry, P. Sharma, A. Thomas, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, Boulder CO, June 2002.
• "RTP Payload Format for Program Cues," J. Brassil, H. Schulzrinne, IETF Audio-Video Transport Working Group, November 2000.
• "Enhancing Internet Streaming Media with Cueing Protocols," J. T. Brassil, H. Schulzrinne, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom'01, April, 2001. Best paper award nominee (top 5 of 830 submissions).
• "Program Insertion in Real-Time IP Multicasts", J. T. Brassil, S. Garg, H. Schulzrinne, ACM Computer Communication Review, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 49-68, April 1999.
• "Active Network Error Recovery for Continuous Media Applications", J. Brassil, SPIE Symposium on the Performance and Control of Network Systems, vol. 3231, November 1997, pp. 196-207.

Privacy

• "Technical Challenges in Location-Aware Video Surveillance Privacy", Jack Brassil, Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance, Senior, Andrew (Ed.), Springer, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-84882-300-6.
• "Using Mobile Communications to Assert Privacy from Video Surveillance", J. Brassil, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (IPDPS 2005) , Denver CO, April 2005.

Information Hiding

• "Tracing the Source of a Shredded Document," J. Brassil, Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Information Hiding, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Amsterdam, October 2002.
• "Copyright Protection for the Electronic Distribution of Text Documents," J. T. Brassil, S. Low, N. F. Maxemchuk, Proceedings of the IEEE (Invited Paper), vol. 87. no. 7, pp. 1181-1196, July 1999.
• "SEPTEMBER: Secure Electronic Publishing Trial", J. Brassil, A. Choudhury, D. Kristol, A. Lapone, S. Low, N. Maxemchuk, L. O'Gorman, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 34, no. 5, May 1996, pp. 48-55.
• "Electronic Marking and Identification Techniques to Discourage Document Copying," J. Brassil, S. Low, N. Maxemchuk, L. O'Gorman, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 13 no. 8, October 1995, pp. 1495-1504.
• "Watermarking Document Images with Bounding Box Expansion," J. Brassil, L. O'Gorman, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Information Hiding, Springer-Verlag, Cambridge University, May 1996.
• "Internet Access to IEEE Journals: The SEPTEMBER Trial," H. Schulzrinne, A.K. Choudhury, J. Brassil, Proceedings of Documents in Public Networks \(em Applications and Experiences, Darmstadt, Germany, November 1995.
• "Hiding Information in Document Images," J. Brassil, S. Low, N. Maxemchuk, L. O'Gorman, Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 1995, pp 482-489.
• "Document Marking and Identification using both Line and Word Shifting," S. Low, N. Maxemchuk, J. Brassil, L. O'Gorman, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'95, Boston MA, April, 1995.
• "Marking Text Features of Document Images to Deter Illicit Dissemination", J. T. Brassil, S. Low, N. F. Maxemchuk, L. O'Gorman, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Haifa, Israel, Oct., 1994.
• "Marking of Document Images with Codewords to Deter Illicit Dissemination," J. Brassil, S. Low, N. Maxemchuk, L. O'Gorman, Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV, April, 1994.
• "Electronic Marking and Identification Techniques to Discourage Document Copying," J. Brassil, S. Low, N. Maxemchuk, L. O'Gorman, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'94, vol. 3, Toronto, June, 1994, pp. 1278-1287.

Distributed Systems, Algorithms and Protocols

• "Content Services Network: Architecture & Protocols," W. Y. Ma, B. Shen, J. T. Brassil, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution, June, 2001.
• "A Two Phase Auction Algorithm for Highly Asymmetric Assignment Problems", N. Cohen, J. Brassil, Proceedings of the 34th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Univ. of Illinois, October 1996, pp. 447-456.
• "A Parallel Pruning Technique for Highly Asymmetric Assignment Problems", N. Cohen and J. Brassil, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 550-558, June 2000.