Technical Publications

Akamai is a company where innovative research ideas are translated into unrivaled products. Many of Akamai’s researchers continue to publish in the most highly competitive and well-respected academic journals and conferences. A selection of technical publications related to Akamai are listed below.

Characterizing JSON Traffic Patterns on a CDN

Santiago Vargas, Aruna Balasubramanian, Moritz Steiner, Utkarsh Goel. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2019
A Look at the ECS Behavior of DNS Resolvers

Rami Al-Dalky, Michael Rabinovich, and Kyle Schomp. Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’19), October 21–23, 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In the IP of the Beholder: Strategies for Active IPv6 Topology Discovery

Robert Beverly, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, David Plonka, Justin P. Rohrer. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Boston, October/November 2018.
Advancing the Art of Internet Edge Outage Detection

Authors: Philipp Richter, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Neil Spring, Arthur Berger, and David Clark. Publication: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Boston, November 2018.
From Theory to Practice: Improving Bitrate Adaptation in the DASH Reference Player.

ACM Conference on Multimedia System (MMSys), June 2018. Paper won the "Excellence in DASH Award (first place)" from the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-iF).
White Paper: UPnProxy: blackhat proxies via NAT injections

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a widely used protocol with a decade-long history of flawed implementations across a wide range of consumer devices. In this paper, we will cover how these flaws are still present on devices, how these vulnerabilities are actively being abused, and how a feature/vulnerability set that seems to be mostly forgotten could lead to continued problems.
Characterization of Collaborative Resolution in Recursive DNS Resolvers

Rami Al-Dalky and Kyle Schomp. PAM'18, March 26-27 2018, Berlin, Germany.
Footprint Descriptors: Theory and Practice of Cache Provisioning in a Global CDN.

Aditya Sundarrajan, Mingdong Feng, Mangesh Kasbekar and Ramesh K. Sitaraman. CoNEXT ’17, December 12–15, 2017, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Cell Spotting: Studying the Role of Cellular Networks in the Internet

John P. Rula, Fabián E. Bustamante, and Moritz Steiner. IMC 2017
Inferring BGP Blackholing Activity in the Internet

Vasileios Giotsas, Georgios Smaragdakis, Christoph Dietzel, Philipp Richter, Anja Feldmann, and Arthur Berger. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), London, November 2017.
Detecting Peering Infrastructure Outages in the Wild

Vasileios Giotsas, Christoph Dietzel, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann, Arthur Berger, and Emile Aben. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Los Angeles, August, 2017.
Whitepaper: DNS Reflection, Amplification, & DNS Water-torture

In Akamai's quarterly SOTI report, DNS floods comprise one of the top five vectors mitigated on our DDoS platform. The latest wave of DNS query floods is powered by the Mirai malware based botnets. While these two attack types are both classified as DNS floods, they both have different methods of operation that require different mitigation strategies.
Measuring What is Not Ours: A Tale of 3rd Party Performance

Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Mike P. Wittie, Martin Flack, and Stephen Ludin. ACM Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), March 2017.
Domain-Sharding for Faster HTTP/2 in Lossy Cellular Networks

Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Mike P. Wittie, Stephen Ludin, and Martin Flack, January 2017.
Entropy/IP: Uncovering Structure in IPv6 Addresses

Paweł Foremski, David Plonka, and Arthur Berger. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Santa Monica, November 2016.
Beyond Counting: New Perspectives on the Active IPv4 Address Space — Best Paper Award

Philipp Richter, Georgios Smaragdakis, David Plonka, and Arthur Berger. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Santa Monica, November 2016.
A Case for Faster Mobile Web in Cellular IPv6 Networks

Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Mike P. Wittie, Martin Flack, and Stephen Ludin. ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2016.
Are 3rd Parties Slowing Down the Mobile Web?

Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Mike P. Wittie, Martin Flack, and Stephen Ludin. ACM S3 Workshop 2016.
HTTP/2 Performance in Cellular Networks

Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Mike P. Wittie, Martin Flack, and Stephen Ludin. Poster session, ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2016.
Detecting Cellular Middleboxes using Passive Measurement Techniques

Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Mike P. Wittie, Martin Flack, and Stephen Ludin. ACM SIGCOMM Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), 2016.
Access-time Aware Cache Algorithms

Giovanni Neglia, Damiano Carra, Mingdong Feng, Vaishnav Janardhan, Pietro Michiardi, and Dimitra Tsigkarim in the Proceedings of ITC 28, Würzburg, September 2016.
BOLA: Near-Optimal Bitrate Adaptation for Online Videos

Kevin Spiteri, Rahul Urgaonkar, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 2016.
Faster Web through Client-assisted CDN Server Selection

Utkarsh Goel, Mike P. Wittie, Moritz Steiner. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2015
TLS-AUX: Associating Auxiliary Data with TLS Connections

Mangesh Kasbekar, Vaishnav Janardhan, Manish Jain, and Vinay Kanitkar, November 2015.
Temporal and Spatial Classification of Active IPv6 Addresses

David Plonka and Arthur Berger. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Tokyo, Japan, October 28-30 2015.
Sample IPv6 Active WWW Client Address Aggregate Counts Data

Companion data to Temporal and Spartial Classification of Active IPv6 Addresses, October 2015.
Server Siblings: Identifying Shared IPv4/IPv6 Infrastructure via Active Fingerprinting

Robert Beverly and Arthur Berger. The Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2015, New York, New York, March 19-20, 2015.
End-User Mapping: Next Generation Request Routing for Content Delivery

Fangfei Chen, Ramesh Sitaraman and Marcelo Torres. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 Conference, London, United Kingdom, August 2015.
Algorithmic Nuggets in Content Delivery

Bruce Maggs and Ramesh Sitaraman, Invited Editorial, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Volume 45 Issue 3, pages 52-66, July 2015.
Overlay Networks: An Akamai Perspective

Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Mangesh Kasbekar, Woody Lichtenstein, and Manish Jain. In Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services, Ed. Pathan, Sitaraman, and Robinson, John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Internet Nameserver IPv4 and IPv6 Address Relationships

Arthur Berger, Nicholas Weaver, Robert Beverly, and Larry Campbell In the Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Barcelona, Spain, October 2013.
Understanding the Effectiveness of Video Ads: A Measurement Study

S. Shunmuga Krishnan and Ramesh K. Sitaraman In the Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Barcelona, Spain, October 2013.
Pushing CDN-ISP Collaboration to the Limit

Benjamin Frank, Ingmar Poese, Yin Lin, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann, Bruce M. Maggs, Jannis Rake, Steve Uhlig, Rick Weber ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, July 2013.
Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs

S. Shunmuga Krishnan, and Ramesh K. Sitaraman Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, November 14-16, 2012
Using Batteries to Reduce the Power Costs of Internet-scale Distributed Networks

Darshan S. Palasamudram, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Rahul Urgaonkar Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2012 San Jose, California, October 14-17, 2012
Comparison of User Traffic Characteristics on Mobile-Access versus Fixed-Access Networks

Mikko Heikkinen, and Arthur Berger, Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7192, Pages 32-41
Measuring the State of ECN Readiness in Servers, Clients, and Routers

Steven Bauer, Robert Beverly, and Arthur Berger, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2011 Berlin, Germany, November 2-4, 2011, pp. 171-179
Primitives for Active Internet Topology Mapping: Toward High-Frequency Characterization

Robert Beverly, Arthur Berger, and Geoffrey G. Xie. Proc. of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia, November 1-3, 2010, pp. 165-171
Keeping Track of 70,000+ Servers: The Akamai Query System

Jeff Cohen, Thomas Repantis, Sean McDermott, Scott Smith, and Joel Wein. Proceedings of the 24th USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA), November 2010.
The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications

Erik Nygren, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, and Jennifer Sun. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol. 44, No.3, July 2010.
Scaling a Monitoring Infrastructure for the Akamai Network

Thomas Repantis, Jeff Cohen, Scott Smith, and Joel Wein. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol. 44, No.3, July 2010.
Understanding the Efficacy of Deployed Internet Source Address Validation Filtering

Robert Beverly, Arthur Berger Young Hyun, & K. Claffy Proc. of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, November 4-6, 2009, pp. 356-369.
Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems

A. Qureshi, R. Weber, H. Balakrishnan, J. Guttag, and B. Maggs. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Conference (SIGCOMM), August, 2009
Multi-Rate Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing: A Distributed Approach Using Scalable Coding

M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, M. Chen, J. Li, and P. A. Chou Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2009), New York, June 30 - July 2, 2009. Received ICME 2009 Best Paper Award.
Improving Performance on the Internet

T. Leighton Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, No. 2, February 2009
Virtualized Games for Teaching About Distributed Systems

Joel Wein, Kirill Kourtchikov, Yan Cheng, Ron Gutierez, Roman Khmelichek, Matthew Topol, Chris Sherman. SIGCSE '09, March 3–7, 2009, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
The Growing Complexity of Internet Interconnection

Peyman Faratin, David Clark, Steve Bauer, William Lehr, Patrick Gilmore, & Arthur Berger Communications & Strategies, No. 72, 4th quarter 2008, pp. 51-71
Scalable Query Result Caching for Web Applications

C. Garrod, A. Manji, A. Ailamaki, B. Maggs, T. Mowry, C. Olson, and A. Tomasic. Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), August 2008.
NIRA: A New Inter-Domain Routing Architecture

Xiaowei Yang, David Clark, and Arthur Berger. IEEE/ACM Transactions On Networking, Vol. 15, No. 4, August 2007.
Dynamic Load Balancing Without Packet Reordering

Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi, Shantanu Sinha, and Arthur Berger. Computer Communication Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 2007.
The Internet’s Not a Big Truck: Toward Quantifying Network Neutrality

Robert Beverly, Steven Bauer, and Arthur Berger. Proceedings of the 8th Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, April 2007.
Machine Learning for Efficient Neighbor Selection in Unstructured P2P Networks

Robert Beverly and Mike Afergan Proceedings of USENIX Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML 2007), Cambridge, MA, April 2007.
SVM Learning of IP Address Structure for Latency Prediction

Robert Beverly, Karen Sollins and Arthur Berger. ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Workshop on Mining Network Data. Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
Simultaneous Scalability and Securityfor Data Intensive Web Applications

A. Manjhi, A. Ailamaki, B. M. Maggs, T. C. Mowry, C. Olston, and A. Tomasic. Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD '06, June 2006.
Using Repeated Games to Design Incentive-Based Routing Systems

Mike Afergan. IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
Repeated-Game Modeling of Multicast Overlays

Mike Afergan and Rahul Sami IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
Towards Realizing the Performance and Availability Bene ts of a Global Overlay Network

Hariharan Rahul, Mangesh Kasbekar, Ramesh Sitaraman, and Arthur Berger Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Adelaide, Australia, March 30 - 31, 2006.
Experience with some Principles for Building an Internet-Scale Reliable System

Mike Afergan, Joel Wein, and Amy LaMeyer. Proceedings of Second Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS) '05, San Francisco, CA, December 2005.
ACMS: The Akamai Con guration Management System

Alex Sherman, Phil Lisiecki, Andy Berkheimer, and Joel Wein. Proceedings of NSDI 2005. Boston, MA, May 2005
Botz4Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds

Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi, Matthias Jacob, and Arthur Berger. Second Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), Boston MA, May 2005.
An Analysis of Live Streaming Workloads on the Internet

K. Sripanidkulchai, B. Maggs, and H. Zhang. Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 2004 (IMC), Taormina, Sicily, Italy,October 2004.
A Transport Layer for Live Streaming in a Content Delivery Network

Leonidas Kontothanassis, Ramesh Sitaraman, Joel Wein, Duke Hong, Robert Kleinberg, Brian Mancuso, David Shaw, and Daniel Stodolsky. Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Evolution of Internet Technologies 92(9):1408-1419 (September, 2004).
Simultaneous Source Location

K. Andreev, C. Garrod, B. Maggs, and A. Meyerson. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX), Cambridge, MA, August, 2004.
Locating Internet Routing Instabilities

A. Feldmann, O. Maennel, Z. Morley Mao, A. Berger, and B. Maggs. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2004 Conference (SIGCOMM), Portland, Oregon, August, 2004.
Fast Portscan Detection Using Sequential Hypothesis Testing

Jaeyeon Jung, Vern Paxson, Arthur Berger, and Hari Balakrishnan. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2004.
EdgeComputing: Extending Enterprise Applications to the Edge of the Internet

Andy Davis, Jay Parikh, and William E. Weihl. Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), New York, New York, 2004.
Designing Overlay Multicast Networks For Streaming

K. Andreev, B. M. Maggs, A. Meyerson, and R. Sitaraman. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), San Diego, California, June 2003.
Modeling TTL-based Internet Caches

Jaeyeon Jung, Arthur Berger, and Hari Balakrishnan. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2003, San Francisco, CA, March 2003.
The Value of Knowing a Demand Curve: Bounds on Regret for On-line Posted-Price Auctions

Robert Kleinberg and Tom Leighton. In Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2003), pages 594-605, Cambridge, MA, October, 2003.
Globally Distributed Content Delivery

J. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl, IEEE Internet Computing, September/October 2002.
Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web

David Karger, Eric Lehman, Tom Leighton, Rina Panigrahy, Matthew Levine, Daniel Lewin. Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), El Paso, Texas, May, 1997.

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