Walter Willinger

Orcid: 0000-0002-1384-8188

Affiliations:
  • NIKSUN Inc., USA


According to our database1, Walter Willinger authored at least 133 papers between 1990 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:
  • Dijkstra number2 of four.
  • Erdős number3 of two.

Awards

ACM Fellow

ACM Fellow 2005, "For contributions to the analysis of data networks and protocols.".

IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow 2005, "For the analysis and mathematical modeling of Internet traffic".

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Bibliography

2024
DynATOS+: A Network Telemetry System for Dynamic Traffic and Query Workloads.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., August, 2024

Towards Re-Architecting Today's Internet for Survivability: NSF Workshop Report.
Comput. Commun. Rev., April, 2024

Query Planning for Robust and Scalable Hybrid Network Telemetry Systems.
Proc. ACM Netw., 2024

Leveraging Prefix Structure to Detect Volumetric DDoS Attack Signatures with Programmable Switches.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024

Harnessing Public Code Repositories to Develop Production-Ready ML Artifacts for Networking.
Proceedings of the 2024 Applied Networking Research Workshop, 2024

2023
A NetAI Manifesto (Part I): Less Explorimentation, More Science.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., September, 2023

A NetAI Manifesto (Part II): Less Hubris, more Humility.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., September, 2023

Special Issue on The ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on Measurements for Self-Driving Networks.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., September, 2023

A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers.
Commun. ACM, August, 2023

In Search of netUnicorn: A Data-Collection Platform to Develop Generalizable ML Models for Network Security Problems.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023

PINOT: Programmable Infrastructure for Networking.
Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, 2023

A Case for Performance- and Cost-Aware Multi-Cloud Overlays.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2023

2022
Curvature-based Analysis of Network Connectivity in Private Backbone Infrastructures.
Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., 2022

ARISE: A Multitask Weak Supervision Framework for Network Measurements.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2022

Dynamic Scheduling of Approximate Telemetry Queries.
Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2022

DWT in P4: Periodicity Detection in the Data Plane.
Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2022

AI/ML for Network Security: The Emperor has no Clothes.
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022

2021
Revisiting Network Telemetry in COIN: A Case for Runtime Programmability.
IEEE Netw., 2021

DynamiQ: Planning for Dynamics in Network Streaming Analytics Systems.
CoRR, 2021

Hey, Lumi! Using Natural Language for Intent-Based Network Management.
Proceedings of the 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2021

2020
Examining the evolution of the Twitter elite network.
Soc. Netw. Anal. Min., 2020

On the Practicality of Learning Models for Network Telemetry.
Proceedings of the 4th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, 2020

Challenges in Using ML for Networking Research: How to Label If You Must.
Proceedings of the 2020 Workshop on Network Meets AI & ML, 2020

A First Comparative Characterization of Multi-cloud Connectivity in Today's Internet.
Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement - 21st International Conference, 2020

2019
On Mapping the Interconnections in Today's Internet.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2019

Lessons from "on the self-similar nature of ethernet traffic".
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2019

Lessons from "a first-principles approach to understanding the internet's router-level topology".
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2019

How Cloud Traffic Goes Hiding: A Study of Amazon's Peering Fabric.
Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference, 2019

An Effort to Democratize Networking Research in the Era of AI/ML.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2019

2018
GreyFiber: A System for Providing Flexible Access to Wide-Area Connectivity.
CoRR, 2018

Leveraging interconnections for performance: the serving infrastructure of a large CDN.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, 2018

Sonata: query-driven streaming network telemetry.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, 2018

On Characterizing the Twitter Elite Network.
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 2018 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2018

2017
Sonata: Query-Driven Network Telemetry.
CoRR, 2017

A view from the edge: A stub-AS perspective of traffic localization and its implications.
Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, 2017

2016
Self-Similarity in Social Network Dynamics.
ACM Trans. Model. Perform. Evaluation Comput. Syst., 2016

Network Monitoring as a Streaming Analytics Problem.
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2016

Inferring smartphone service quality using tensor methods.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management, 2016

2015
A Measurement Experimentation Platform at the Internet's Edge.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2015

A Survey of Techniques for Internet Topology Discovery.
IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials, 2015

Quo vadis Open-IX?
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2015

Experiment Coordination for Large-scale Measurement Platforms.
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data, 2015

InterTubes: A Study of the US Long-haul Fiber-optic Infrastructure.
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, 2015

Distilling the Internet's Application Mix from Packet-Sampled Traffic.
Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement - 16th International Conference, 2015

2014
Internet visualization.
Computing, 2014

Demo abstract: towards extracting semantics by visualizing large traceroute datasets.
Computing, 2014

We are all treated equal, aren't we? - Flow-level performance as a function of flow size.
Proceedings of the 2014 IFIP Networking Conference, Trondheim, 2014

Inter-Domain Traffic Estimation for the Outsider.
Proceedings of the 2014 Internet Measurement Conference, 2014

Peering at Peerings: On the Role of IXP Route Servers.
Proceedings of the 2014 Internet Measurement Conference, 2014

Inferring coarse views of connectivity in very large graphs.
Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Online social networks, 2014

2013
The Critical Internet Infrastructure (Dagstuhl Seminar 13322).
Dagstuhl Reports, 2013

There is more to IXPs than meets the eye.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2013

Dasu: Pushing Experiments to the Internet's Edge.
Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2013

2012
Spatio-Temporal Compressive Sensing and Internet Traffic Matrices (Extended Version).
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2012

Anatomy of a large european IXP.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference, 2012

Human mobility modeling at metropolitan scales.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, 2012

2011
10 Lessons from 10 Years of Measuring and Modeling the Internet's Autonomous Systems.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2011

A Socratic method for validation of measurement-based networking research.
Comput. Commun., 2011

2010
The (in)completeness of the observed internet AS-level structure.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2010

Sizing up online social networks.
IEEE Netw., 2010

A manifesto for modeling and measurement in social media.
First Monday, 2010

Characterizing the Global Impact of P2P Overlays on the AS-Level Underlay.
Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement, 11th International Conference, 2010

Eyeball ASes: from geography to connectivity.
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2010

Towards an AS-to-organization map.
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2010

Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Multi-layered Communication Networks.
Proceedings of the Complexity in Engineering, 2010

2009
On unbiased sampling for unstructured peer-to-peer networks.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2009

Research on online social networks: time to face the real challenges.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2009

Spatio-temporal compressive sensing and internet traffic matrices.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Conference on Applications, 2009

Beyond friendship graphs: a study of user interactions in Flickr.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Online Social Networks, 2009

Hot today, gone tomorrow: on the migration of MySpace users.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Online Social Networks, 2009

Respondent-Driven Sampling for Characterizing Unstructured Overlays.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2009. 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2009

Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective.
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2009, Chicago, 2009

TCP revisited: a fresh look at TCP in the wild.
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2009, Chicago, 2009

IXPs: mapped?
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2009, Chicago, 2009

2008
An SLA perspective on the router buffer sizing problem.
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2008

What are our standards for validation of measurement-based networking research?
SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2008

Guest editorial - internet scalability: properties and evolution.
IEEE Netw., 2008

Complex computer and communication networks.
Comput. Networks, 2008

In search of the elusive ground truth: the internet's as-level connectivity structure.
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2008

cSamp: A System for Network-Wide Flow Monitoring.
Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, 2008

Towards a meaningful MRA of traffic matrices.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2008

2007
Laboratory-based calibration of available bandwidth estimation tools.
Microprocess. Microsystems, 2007

The workshop on internet topology (wit) report.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2007

Understanding the effect of P2P overlay on the AS-level underlay.
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Conference on Emerging Network Experiment and Technology, 2007

2006
The many facets of internet topology and traffic.
Networks Heterog. Media, 2006

A Proposed Framework for Calibration of Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2006), 2006

Sampling Techniques for Large, Dynamic Graphs.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2006. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2006

To Peer or Not to Peer: Modeling the Evolution of the Internet's AS-Level Topology.
Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2006. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2006

Difficulties Measuring the Internet's AS-Level Ecosystem.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2006

2005
Understanding internet topology: principles, models, and validation.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2005

On TCP and self-similar traffic.
Perform. Evaluation, 2005

Towards a Theory of Scale-Free Graphs: Definition, Properties, and Implications.
Internet Math., 2005

Towards a Theory of Scale-Free Graphs: Definition, Properties, and Implications (Extended Version)
CoRR, 2005

A contrasting look at self-organization in the Internet and next-generation communication networks.
IEEE Commun. Mag., 2005

A methodology for studying persistency aspects of internet flows.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2005

An Empirical Approach to Modeling Inter-AS Traffic Matrices.
Proceedings of the 5th Internet Measurement Conference, 2005

2004
Towards capturing representative AS-level Internet topologies.
Comput. Networks, 2004

More "Normal" Than Normal: Scaling Distributions and Complex Systems.
Proceedings of the 36th conference on Winter simulation, 2004

A first-principles approach to understanding the internet's router-level topology.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2004 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, August 30, 2004

A pragmatic approach to dealing with high-variability in network measurements.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2004

2003
Toward an optimization-driven framework for designing and generating realistic Internet topologies.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2003

Internet connectivity at the AS-level: an optimization-driven modeling approach.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Models, 2003

2002
Self-similar traffic and network dynamics.
Proc. IEEE, 2002

Network topologies, power laws, and hierarchy.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2002

Network topology generators: degree-based vs. structural.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Conference on Applications, 2002

The Origin of Power-Laws in Internet Topologies Revisited.
Proceedings of the Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2002, 2002

2001
Does AS size determine degree in as topology?
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2001

TCP/IP traffic dynamics and network performance: a lesson in workload modeling, flow control, and trace-driven simulations.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 2001

A non-instrusive, wavelet-based approach to detecting network performance problems.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, 2001

New Algorithmic Challenges Arising in Measurement-Driven Networking Research.
Proceedings of the Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation, Third International Workshop, 2001

2000
The Discovery of Self-Similar Traffic.
Proceedings of the Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions, 2000

1999
Introduction to Special Issue on Mutliscale Statistical Signal Analysis and Its Application.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1999

Scaling Analysis of Conservative Cascades, with Applications to Network Traffic.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1999

Stock market prices and long-range dependence.
Finance Stochastics, 1999

Dynamics of IP Traffic: A Study of the Role of Variability and the Impact of Control.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 1999 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, August 30, 1999

1998
The changing nature of network traffic: scaling phenomena.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 1998

Data Networks as Cascades: Investigating the Multifractal Nature of Internet WAN Traffic.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 1998 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, August 31, 1998

1997
Self-similarity through high-variability: statistical analysis of Ethernet LAN traffic at the source level.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 1997

Proof of a fundamental result in self-similar traffic modeling.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 1997

Fast and Physically-Based Generation of Self-Similar Network Traffic with Applications to ATM Performance Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation, 1997

Measuring ATM traffic cell-by-cell: experiences and preliminary findings from BAGNet.
Proceedings of the Performance and Management of Complex Communication Networks, 1997

Engineering Aspects of an Architecture for Non-Real-Time VBR Video Services.
Proceedings of the Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques, 1997

1996
Experimental queueing analysis with long-range dependent packet traffic.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 1996

1995
Long-range dependence in variable-bit-rate video traffic.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 1995

On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic.
Comput. Commun. Rev., 1995

Network Traffic Measurement and Modelling (Panel).
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 1995

Performance Impacts of Self-Similarity in Traffic (Panel).
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 1995

1994
On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version).
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 1994

Statistical analysis of CCSN/SS7 traffic data from working CCS subnetworks.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 1994

Analysis, Modeling and Generation of Self-Similar VBR Video Traffic.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 1994 Conference on Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications, London, UK, August 31, 1994

The Joseph And Noah Effects And High-speed Network Traffic.
Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, 1994

1990
Efficient Traffic Performance Strategies vor Packet Multiplexers.
Comput. Networks ISDN Syst., 1990

Performance of an ATM Switch: Simulation Study.
Proceedings of the Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM '90, 1990


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