Publications:

• Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources". In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'04), Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
  This is the first paper that introduced RoQ attacks as a new breed of dynamic exploits against adaptation mechanisms. In addition to illustrating a general adaptation framework for studying dynamic exploits, this paper instantiates RoQ attacks on network transport protocols (e.g., TCP) and active queue managmenent schemes. A longer version of this paper can be found here.
• Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Adaptation=Vulnerability: Under RoQ Attacks". Poster in ACM SIGCOMM 2004, Portland, Oregon, September 2004.
• Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "Bandwidth Stealing via Link Targeted RoQ Attacks". In Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communication and Computer Networks (CCN'04), Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2004.
  This paper shows how RoQ attacks are used in a distributed fashion to steal bandwidth from a subset of flows, to benefit another subset of flows.
• Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta and Yuting Zhang. "Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Internet End-Systems". In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE INFOCOM (INFOCOM'05), Miami, Florida, March, 2005.
  This paper demonstrates how RoQ attacks target admission controllers employed in modern web servers.
• Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. "On the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks" . In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006. (To appear)
  This paper presents upper bounds on the impact of low-rate attacks. It identifies variants of low-rate attacks and outlines defense mechanisms. A longer version of this paper can be found here.