Sebastian Zander - Publications
Journal
Papers
S. Zander, G. Armitage, P. Branch, "Covert Channels and Countermeasures in Computer Network Protocols ", (invited) IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 136-142, December 2007. [pdf ]
S. Zander, G. Armitage, P. Branch,
"A
Survey of Covert Channels and
Countermeasures in Computer Network
Protocols ", IEEE Communications
Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 44-57, October 2007. [pdf ]
N. Williams, S. Zander, G. Armitage,
"A
Preliminary Performance Comparison of
Five Machine Learning Algorithms for
Practical IP Traffic Flow
Classification ", SIGCOMM
Computer Communication Review, Volume
36, October 2006. [pdf ]
J.
Jähnert, J. Zhou, R. L. Aguiar, V.
Marques, M. Wetterwald, E. Melin, J. I.
Moreno, A. Cuevas, M. Liebsch, R.
Schmitz, P. Pacyna, T. Melia, P.
Kurtansky, Hasan, D. Singh, S. Zander,
H. J. Einsiedler, B. Stiller, "The
'pure-IP' Moby Dick 4G
architecture ", Computer
Communications 28(9), pp. 1014-1027,
Elsevier, June 2005. [pdf ]
J. Tiemann, S. Zander, M. Jonas,
" Gigamedia
- Film + Video im
Netz ",
DFN Journal, Heft 54, November 2000.
[pdf ]
S. Zander, "Java - Weder
'kalter Kaffee' noch heißer
Problemlöser ", Fachzeitschrift
Fernseh- und Kinotechnik (FKT) ,
March 1998.
Internationally
Reviewed Conference
Papers
S. Zander, G. Armitage, P. Branch, "Covert Channels in Multiplayer First Person Shooter Online Games ", 33rd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer
Networks (LCN ), Montreal, Canada, 14-17 October 2008. [pdf ]
S. Zander, S. Murdoch, "An Improved Clock-skew Measurement Technique for Revealing Hidden Services ", 17th Usenix Security Symposium , San Jose, USA, July/August 2008. (15.9% acceptance rate) [pdf ]
S. Zander, G.Armitage, P.Branch, "An Empirical Evaluation of IP Time To Live Covert Channels ", 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON2007 ), Adelaide, Australia, 19-21 November 2007. [pdf ]
S. Zander, P.Branch, G.Armitage, "Error Probability Analysis of IP Time To Live Covert Channels ", IEEE 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2007 ), Sydney, Australia, October 16-19, 2007. [pdf ]
S.
Zander, G. Armitage, P. Branch,
"Covert
Channels in the IP Time To Live
Field " , Australian
Telecommunication Networks and
Application Conference (ATNAC 2006),
Melbourne, Australia, 4-6 December
2006. [pdf ]
G. Armitage,
C. Javier, S. Zander, "Topological
Optimisation for Online First Person
Shooter Game Server Discovery " ,
(poster) Australian
Telecommunication Networks and
Application Conference (ATNAC 2006),
Melbourne, Australia, 4-6 December
2006. [pdf ]
J. But, N. Williams, S. Zander, L.
Stewart, G. Armitage, "ANGEL - Automated
Network Games Enhancement
Layer ", NetGames
2006 , Singapore, November
2006.
G. Armitage, C. Javier, S.
Zander, "Post-game
Estimation of Game Client RTT and Hop
Count Distributions ", (poster)
NetGames
2006 , Singapore, November 2006.
[Full
Paper ]
S. Zander, N. Williams, G.
Armitage, "Internet
Archeology: Estimating Individual
Application Trends in Incomplete
Historic Traffic Traces ",
(poster) Passive and Active
Measurement Workshop (PAM 2006),
Adelaide, Australia, March 30 - 31,
2006. [pdf ]
[Full
Paper ]
L. Stewart, G. Armitage, P. Branch,
S. Zander, "An Architecture for
Automated Network Control of QoS over
Consumer Broadband Links ",
(poster) IEEE
Tencon 2005 , Melbourne, Australia,
21-24 November 2005. [pdf ]
S. Zander, T.T.T. Nguyen, G.
Armitage, "Automated
Traffic Classification and
Application Identification using
Machine Learning ", Proc. IEEE
30th Conference on Local Computer
Networks (LCN 2005), Sydney, Australia,
15-17 November 2005. [pdf ]
S. Zander, D. Kennedy, G. Armitage,
"Dissecting
Server-Discovery Traffic Patterns
Generated By Multiplayer First Person
Shooter Games ", NetGames 2005,
New York, USA, 10-11 October 2005.
[pdf ]
S.Zander, I.Leeder, G.Armitage,
"Achieving
Fairness in Multiplayer Network Games
through Automated Latency
Balancing ", ACM SIGCHI
International Conference on Advances in
Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE
2005), Valencia, Spain, June 2005.
[p df ]
S. Zander, G. Armitage, "A
Traffic Model for the XBOX Game Halo
2 ", 15th ACM International
Workshop on Network and Operating
System Support for DIgital Audio and
Video (NOSSDAV 2005), Washington (USA),
June 2005. [pdf ]
S. Zander, T. Nguyen, G. Armitage,
"Self-learning
IP Traffic Classification based on
Statistical Flow
Characteristics ", (poster)
Passive Active Measurement Workshop
(PAM 2005), Boston, USA, March/April
2005. [pdf ]
S. Zander, G. Armitage, "Empirically
Measuring the QoS Sensitivity of
Interactive Online Game
Players ", Australian
Telecommunications Networks &
Applications Conference 2004
(ATNAC 2004), Sydney, Australia
December 8-10 2004. [pdf ]
P. Kurtansky, Hasan, D. Singh, S.
Zander, A. Cuevas, J. Jähnert, J.
Zhou, B. Stiller, "Extensions
of AAA for Future IP
Networks ", IEEE Wireless
Communications and Networking
Conference (WCNC 2004), Atlanta, USA,
March 2004. [pdf ]
S. Zander, G. Armitage, C. Malcolm,
"Dynamics
and Cachability of Web Sites:
Implications for Inverted Capacity
Networks ", IEEE International
Conference on Networks (ICON 2003),
Sydney, Australia, September/October
2003. [pdf ]
S. Zander, G. Carle, "High
Quality IP Video Streaming with
Adaptive Packet Marking ",
International Workshop on Quality of
Future Internet Services (Qofis) 2002,
Zürich, Switzerland, October 2002.
[pdf ]
Hasan, D. Singh, S. Zander, M.
Kuhlbach, J. Jaehnert, B. Stiller,
"The
Design of an Extended AAAC
Architecture ", IST Mobile
& Wireless Telecommunications
Summit 2002, Thessaloniki, Greece, June
2002. [pdf ]
J. Quittek, T. Zseby, G. Carle, S.
Zander, "Traffic
Flow Measurements within IP Networks:
Requirements, Technologies, and
Standardization ", IEEE SAINT
Symposium on Applications and the
Internet Workshops (SAINT 2002
Workshops), Nara City, Nara, Japan,
January/February, 2002. [pdf ]
G. Carle, H. Sanneck, S. Zander, L.
Le, "Deploying
an Active Voice Application on a
Three-Level Active Network Node
Architecture ", International
Working Conference On Active Networks
(IWAN 2001), Philadelphia, USA,
September/October 2001. [pdf ]
M. Berg, C. Huck, R. Schaefer, J.
Tiemann, S. Zander, "Kooperative
Postproduktion von Film und Video in
High-Speed Netzwerken ", ITG/FKTG-Fachtagung
Elektronische Medien: Technologien,
Systeme, Anwendungen , Dortmund,
Germany, September 2001.
Hasan, J. Jähnert, S. Zander,
B. Stiller, "Authentication,
Authorization, Accounting and Charging
for the Mobile Internet ",
IST Mobile Communications Summit,
Barcelona, Spain, September 2001.
[pdf ]
T. Zseby, S. Zander, G. Carle,
"Evaluation
of Building Blocks for Passive
One-way-delay Measurements ",
(poster) Passive Active Measurement
Workshop (PAM 2001), Amsterdam,
Netherlands, April 2001. [pdf ]
G. Carle, S. Zander, T. Zseby,
"Policy-basiertes
Metering für IP Netze ",
Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen
(KiVS), Hamburg, Germany, February
2001. [pdf ]
IETF
J. Quittek, B. Claise, T. Zseby, S.
Zander, "Requirements for
IP Flow Information Export " ,
Informational RFC, RFC 3917, October
2004.
G. Carle, S. Zander, T. Zseby,
"Policy-based
Accounting ", Experimental RFC, RFC
3334, October 2002.
S. Zander, " Evaluation
of Diameter Protocol against IPFIX
Requirements ",
IETF draft
<draft-zander-ipfix-diameter-eval-00.txt>,
Work in Progress, September 2002.
(expired)
Diploma
Thesis
S. Zander, "Tarifbasierte
Dienstgüteauswahl für
IP-Multimedia-Dienste mit
Vorwärtsfehlerkorrektur ",
Institut für Kommunikationsnetze,
Fachbereich Elektrotechnik, TU Berlin,
July 1999. [pdf ]
Parts of my diploma thesis are
covered in this publication: G.
Carle, T. Zseby, "Tariff
Dependent Error Control for
Heterogeneous Real-Time Multicast
Services ", Proceedings of
Multicast Workshop, Technical
University Braunschweig, Germany, May
20-21, 1999.
CAIA Tech Reports
P. Branch, S. Zander, "Bit-Stuffing Rate in the High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) Protocol ", CAIA Technical report 081121A, 21 November 2008.
S. Zander, G. Armitage, "CCHEF - Covert Channels Evaluation Framework Design and Implementation ", CAIA Technical report 080530A, 30 May 2008.
S. Zander, G. Armitage, P. Branch, "Dynamics of the IP Time To Live Field in Internet Traffic Flows ", CAIA Technical report 070529A, 29 May 2007.
G. Armitage, C. Javier, S. Zander, "Post-game Estimation of Game Client RTT and Hop Count Distributions ", CAIA Technical report 060801A, 01 August 2006.
S. Zander, G. Armitage, T. Nguyen, L. Mark, B. Tyo, "Minimally Intrusive Round Trip Time Measurements Using Synthetic Packet-Pairs ", CAIA Technical report 060707A, 07 July 2006.
S. Zander, "Misclassification of Game Traffic based on Port Numbers: A Case Study using Enemy Territory ", CAIA Technical report 060410D, 10 April 2006.
N. Williams, S. Zander, G. Armitage, "Evaluating Machine Learning Methods for Online Game Traffic Identification ", CAIA Technical report 060410C, 10 April 2006.
N. Williams, S. Zander, G. Armitage, "Evaluating Machine Learning Algorithms for Automated Network Application Identification ", CAIA Technical report 060410B, 10 April 2006.
G. Armitage, C. Javier, S. Zander, "Measuring a Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Master Server's Response to Game Client Queries ", CAIA Technical report 060410A, 10 April 2006.
S. Zander, N. Williams, G. Armitage, "Internet Archeology: Estimating Individual Application Trends in Incomplete Historic Traffic Traces ", CAIA Technical report 060313A, 13 March 2006.
G. Armitage, C. Javier, S. Zander, "Client RTT and Hop Count Distributions viewed from an Australian Enemy Territory Server ", CAIA Technical report 060223A, 23 February 2006.
J.-A. Bussiere, S. Zander, "Enemy Territory Traffic Analysis ", CAIA Technical report 060203A, 03 February 2006.
J.-A. Bussiere, S. Zander, "Empirical Measurements of Player QoS Sensitivity for the Xbox Game Halo2 ", CAIA Technical report 050527A, 27 May 2005.
S. Zander, D. Kennedy, G. Armitage, "KUTE A High Performance Kernel-based UDP Traffic Engine ", CAIA Technical report 050118A, 18 January 2005.
D. Kennedy, S. Zander, "Investigating the Influence of HTTP Traffic on the Accuracy of Packet Time Stamping ", CAIA Technical report 041124A, 24 November 2004.
T. Zseby, S. Zander, "Sampling Schemes for Validating Service Level Agreements ", CAIA Technical report 040706A, 06 July 2004.
S. Zander, G. Armitage, C. Malcolm, "Dynamics and Cachability of WebSites: Implications for Inverted Capacity Networks ", CAIA Technical report 030405B, 05 April 2003.