Technical Reports

This page provides pointers to Technical Reports written by CAIA members or visitors. CAIA Technical Reports may be short memos or longer papers. They document experimental/interim research results, describe techniques and technologies deployed in our lab, or represent complete research papers. Some are archived in in pdf form (two-column, IEEE-style papers), others exist in html (where embedded links are important to the TR).

(And for students and staff at Swinburne - a guide on How (not) To Write Reports and Papers.)

2008

• D. Hayes, J. But "Alias_sctp Version 0.1: SCTP NAT implementation in IPFW," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080618A, June 2008
• A. Heyde, "Using Synthetic Packet Pairs to Investigate Real-time Latency Variations over Home Broadband Connections," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080530B, May 2008
• S. Zander, G. Armitage,  "CCHEF – Covert Channels Evaluation Framework Design and Implementation," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080530A, May 2008
• A. Heyde, L. Stewart, "Using the Endace DAG 3.7GF Card With FreeBSD 7.0," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080507A, May 2008
• L. Parry, "L3DGEWorld 2.3 Hierarchy & Room Reuse Documentation," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080222D, February 2008
• L. Parry, "L3DGEWorld 2.3 Input & Output Specifications," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080222C, February 2008
• G. Armitage, "Over-estimation of game server RTT during FPS server discovery," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080222B, February 2008
• A. Heyde, "Investigating the performance of Endace DAG monitoring hardware and Intel NICs in the context of Lawful Interception," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080222A, February 2008
• J. But, A. Black, "VTun UDP Packet Dissector for Wireshark/Ethereal," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 080111A, January 2008
  

2007

• L. Parry "L3DGEWorld 2.2 Input & Output Specifications," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 071218B, December 2007
• L. Stewart, J. Healy, "Light-Weight Modular TCP Congestion Control for FreeBSD 7,"(pdf) CAIA Technical Report 071218A, December 2007
• A. Black, "LCMON Network Traffic Analysis" (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 071029A, October 2007
• T.T.T. Nguyen, A. Black,  "Preliminary Study on Power Consumption of Typical Home Network Devices" (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 071011A, October 2007.
• A. Black, T.T.T. Nguyen, "Calibration of the Tektronix TDS 2014 Digital Oscilloscope," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 071008A, October 2007.
• G. Armitage, "Distribution of IP Source Addresses Experienced By Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Game Servers" (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070904A, September 2007
• L. Stewart, G. Armitage, J. Healy, "Characterising the Behaviour and Performance of SIFTR v1.1.0," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070824A, August 2007
• C. Javier "Map & Entity Modeling for L3DGEWorld," (html) CAIA Technical Report 070809A, August 2007
• L. Parry "L3DGEWorld 2.1 Input & Output Specifications," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070808A, August 2007
• G. Armitage, "Server Discovery for Quake III Arena, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory and Quake 4," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070730A, July 2007.
• A. Black, "Induced Noise in Oscilloscope Cabling" (html) CAIA Technical Report 070724A, July 2007.
• L. Stewart, J. Healy, "Tuning and Testing the FreeBSD 6 TCP Stack," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070717B, July 2007.
• A. Black, "Aquisition and Retrieval Performance of the Tektronix TDS 2014 as a Data Logger," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070717A, July 2007.
• L. Stewart, J. Healy, "An Introduction to FreeBSD 6 Kernel Hacking," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070622A, June 2007.
• S. Zander, G. Armitage, P. Branch, "Dynamics of the IP Time To Live Field in Internet Traffic Flows," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070529A, May 2007.
• A. Black, "Silent Packet Dropping With Stockade," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070424A, April 2007.
• W. Harrop, L. Parry, "L3DGEWorld 1.0 Input/Output Layer Specifications," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070402A, April 2007.
• A. Black, M. Robb, "Stockade Performance and Stability Testing," (pdf)CAIA Technical Report 070402B, April 2007.
• J. But, "Generating CAIA Technical Reports and Slide Presentations Using LaTeX," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070312A, March 2007.
• A. Shoolman, "Ping Estimation in Enemy Territory," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 070122A, January 2007.

2006

• G. Armitage, C. Javier, S. Zander "Post-game Estimation of Game Client RTT and Hop Count Distributions," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060801A, August 2006.
• S. Zander, G. Armitage, T. Nguyen,L. Mark, B. Tyo "Minimally Intrusive Round Trip Time Measurements Using Synthetic Packet-Pairs," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060707A, July 2006.
• I. Atov, D. Kennedy, "Experimental Evaluation of FAST TCP Performance and Fairness in DOCSIS Cable Modem Networks," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060523A, May 2006.
• S. Zander, "Misclassification of Game Traffic based on Port Numbers: A Case Study using Enemy Territory," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060410D, April 2006.
• N. Williams, S. Zander, G. Armitage, "Evaluating Machine Learning Methods for Online Game Traffic Identification," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060410C, April 2006.
• N. Williams, S. Zander, G. Armitage, "Evaluating Machine Learning Algorithms for Automated Network Application Identification" (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060410B, April 2006.
• G. Armitage, C. Javier, S. Zander, "Measuring a Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Master Server’s Response to Game Client Queries," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060410A, April 2006.
• S. Zander, N. Williams, G. Armitage, "Internet Archeology: Estimating Individual Application Trends in Incomplete Historic Traffic Traces," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060313A, March 2006.
• G. Armitage, C. Javier, S. Zander, "Client RTT and Hop Count Distributions viewed from an Australian Enemy Territory Server," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060223A, February 2006.
• J. Bussiere, S. Zander, "Enemy Territory Traffic Analysis," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060203A, February 2006.
• D. Kennedy, I. Atov, "Implementing a Testbed for the Evaluation of FAST TCP in DOCSIS-based Access Networks," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 060119A, January 2006.

2005

• J. But, J. Bussiere, "Improving NetSniff Capture Performance on FreeBSD by Increasing the PCAP Capture Buffer Size," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 051027A, October 2005.
• J. Bussiere, J. But, "Measuring the Live Capture Performance of NetSniff," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 051004A, October 2005.
• P. Branch, G. Armitage, "Towards a General Model of First Person Shooter Game Traffic,"(pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050928A, September 2005.
• J. Bussiere, J. But, "Measuring the Processing Performance of NetSniff,"(pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050823A, August 2005.
• J. Bussiere, J. But, "Measuring the Processing Performance of NetSniff: Testbed Design," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050623A, June 2005.
• G. Edwards, J. Ly, H.N.D. Nguyen,"The Remote Unix Lab Environment (RULE) System Upgrade Prototype," (pdf, restricted access) CAIA Technical Report 050722A, July 2005.
• J. Bussiere, J. But, "Analyzing IP Traffic Captured by Netsniff," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050617A, June 2005.
• J. Bussiere, S. Zander, "Empirical Measurements of Player QoS Sensitivity for the Xbox Game Halo2," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050527A, May 2005.
• J. But,  "Using Not AutoMake to develop platform independent build environments", (html) CAIA Technical Report 050412A, April 2005.
• J. But, U. Keller, G. Armitage, "A rationale for web caching in consumer ISPs: The impact of DNS lookup times and HTTP session characteristics," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050218A, February 2005.
• U. Keller, J. But, "Extending Netsniff," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050204B, February 2005.
• U. Keller, J. But, "Netsniff - Design and Implementation Concepts," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050204A, February 2005.
• S. Zander, D. A. Kennedy, G. Armitage, "KUTE A High Performance Kernel-based UDP Traffic Engine," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 050118A, January 2005.

2004

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• J. But, "802.11 Wireless Network Access at Swinburne Using FreeBSD 5.3", (html) CAIA Technical Report 041221A, December 2004.
• K. Mitchell, "Installing Microsoft Office 2000 on FreeBSD 5.3 at CAIA", (html) CAIA Technical Report 041203A, December 2004.
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• J. But, "User mounting of Removable Devices on FreeBSD 5.3", (html) CAIA Technical Report 041130A, November 2004.
• K. Mitchell, J. But, "Installing Microsoft Office 2000 on FreeBSD 5.3", (html) CAIA Technical Report 041129A, November 2004.
• D. A. Kennedy, S. Zander, "Investigating the Influence of HTTP Traffic on the Accuracy of Packet Time Stamping," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 041124A, November 2004.
• N. Williams, J. Ly, "Prototype Development for Secure Public Instant Messaging (IM) At Work," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 041123A, November 2004.
• B. Tyo, "Running a Quake 3 mod on Enemy Territory," (pdf, restricted access) CAIA Technical Report 041117A, November 2004.
• D. A. Kennedy, B. Tyo, "Configuring a 'Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory' Server for Online Play," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040831A, August 2004.
• J. Nguyen, "The impact of Microsoft Windows infection vectors on IP network traffic patterns," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040804A, August 2004.
• N. Williams, J. Ly, "Securing Public Instant Messaging (IM) At Work," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040726A, July 2004.
• T. Zseby, S. Zander, "Sampling Schemes for Validating Service Level Agreements," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040706A, July 2004.
• A. M. Pavlicic, "Bypassing Unintelligent Lawful Interception in a FreeBSD Environment," (pdf, restricted access) CAIA Technical Report 040629A, June 2004.
• A. M. Pavlicic, "Dummynet on the GENIUS Bridge Machine," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040625A, June 2004.
• A. M. Pavlicic, "Logicam QuickCam Express Over Yahoo! Messenger Traffic Characteristics", (html) CAIA Technical Report 040625B, June 2004.
• I. Atov, "QNA Inverse Model for Capacity Provisioning in Delay Constrained IP Networks," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040611A, June 2004.
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• J. But, "Videoconferencing under FreeBSD",(html) CAIA Technical Report 040517A, May 2004.
• A. M. Pavlicic, "Evaluating ASUS P4P800VM ATX Motherboards", (html) CAIA Technical Report 040513A, May 2004.
• J. But, "Limitations of Existing MPEG-1 Ciphers for Streaming Video," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040429A, April 2004.
• A. M. Pavlicic, H. Choo, "Logicam QuickCam Express Web Camera Packet and Traffic Characteristics", (html) CAIA Technical Report 040428A, April 2004.
• J. But, "Requirements for a Generic MPEG-1 Cipher to Function in an Existing Streaming Server Environment," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040426A, April 2004.
• L. Stewart, M. Banh, G, Armitage, "Implementing an IPv6 and Mobile IPv6 testbedusing FreeBSD 4.9 and KAME," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040331A, March 2004.
• A. M. Pavlicic,"Comparing the Alloy NS-05C and Netgear FS608 v2 Switches Using Tcpdump," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040329A, March 2004.
• M. Tran, "FreeBSD server anti-spam software using automated TCP connection control," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040326A, March 2004.
• C. Favi, "How to include EPS files with preview in OpenOffice",(html) CAIA Technical Report 040227D, February 2004.
• C. Favi, "CFTStat: A tool for passive TCP analysis, statistics and user's web experience gathering," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040227C, February 2004.
• W. A. Vanhonacker, "Preliminary Results on an Inverted Capacity Network Simulation," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040227B, February 2004.
• W. A. Vanhonacker, "Characterizing Web Content," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040227A, February 2004.
• L. Stewart, "Sources of Error When Identifying Misuse of Corporate Internet Services - A Cautionary Note," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040224A, February 2004.
• A. Rojas, "SPLIT- An ISPs Interception Tool based on RADIUS Authentication", (html) CAIA Technical Report 040220B, February 2004.
• A. M. Pavlicic, A. Rojas, "Setting Up RADIUS Authentication and Authorisation in a FreeBSD Environment", (html) CAIA Technical Report 040220A, February 2004.
• A. M. Pavlicic, P.A. Branch, G.J. Armitage, "The Role of DHCP and RADIUS in Lawful Interception," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 040105A, January 2004.

2003

• C. Malcolm, "Scalability of RULE on Workstation PCs," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 031218A, December 2003.
• A. M. Pavlicic, P. VanDen Bergen, "Using a SmartBits2000 to Test an Alloy NS-16J  Switch," (pdf, restricted access) CAIA Technical Report 031217B, December 2003.
• A. M. Pavlicic, G.J. Armitage, "Testing the Alloy NS-16J Switch Using Tcpdump,"," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 031217A, December 2003.
• G. J. Armitage, "Simple Local DHCP Service under FreeBSD," (html) CAIA Technical Report 031215A, December 2003.
• T. Lang, "User Experience while playing Halo with network delay or loss," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 031205A, December 2003.
• A. M. Pavlicic, T.T.T. Nguyen,"Evaluating ASUS P4SGX-MX ATX Motherboards for the BART Project", (html) CAIA Technical Report 031202B, December 2003.
• W. A. Vanhonacker, "Evaluation of the FreeBSD dummynet network performance simulation tool on a Pentium 4-based Ethernet Bridge," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 031202A, December 2003
• A. M. Pavlicic, "Capturing Xbox System Link Traffic While Playing TimeSplitters2", (html) CAIA Technical Report 031009A, October 2003.
• A. M. Pavlicic, G.J. Armitage, "Quake 3 Packet Inter-Arrival and Length Over the Internet", (html) CAIA Technical Report 030919B, September 2003
• W. Harrop, "Real time interception and filtering of instant messaging protocols," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030919A, September 2003.
• P. VanDen Bergen, G.J. Armitage, "Experimental Intranet Services over Swinburne's 802.11b Wireless Infrastructure," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030730A, July 2003.
• G. J. Armitage, "Playing Quake 3 under FreeBSD 4.8 with an nVidia Graphics Card", (html) CAIA Technical Report 030722A, July 2003
• A. M. Pavlicic, "The NEC e606 Third Generation Mobile Communication Handset," (pdf & html) CAIA Technical Report 030715A, July 2003.
• T. Lang, G.J. Armitage, A Ns2 model for the Xbox System Link game Halo,"(pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030613A, June 2003.
• P. A. Branch, "Lawful Interception of the Internet," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030606A, June 2003.
• G. J. Armitage, "An Experimental Estimation of Latency Sensitivity In Multiplayer Quake 3," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030405A, April 2003.
• S. Zander, G.J. Armitage, C. Malcolm, "Dynamics and Cachability of WebSites: Implications for Inverted Capacity Networks," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030405B, April 2003.
• P. VanDen Bergen, "Implementing 802.11b Wireless using FreeBSD on VIA mini-ITX Motherboards," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030403A, April 2003.
• A. L. Cricenti, "Evaluation of a Pentium PC for use as an Ethernet Bridge," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030326A, March 2003.
• G. J. Armitage, "Maximising Student Exposure to Unix Networking using FreeBSD Virtual Hosts," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 030320A, March 2003.
• G. J. Armitage, "Building a Console Server using FreeBSD 4.7",(html) CAIA Technical Report 030219A, February 2003.

• G. J. Armitage, "Eight Players, Two Xboxes, One Screen", (html) CAIA Technical report 021224A, December 2002.
• M. D. Pozzobon, "Quake 3  Packet and Traffic Characteristics", (html) CAIA Technical Report 021220A, December 2002.
• G. Armitage, "Incremental Backups under FreeBSD 4.x using Rsync", (html) CAIA Technical Report 020927A, September 2002.
• M. D. Pozzobon, "Evaluation of laboratory computers for use as traffic monitors", (html) CAIA Technical Report 020924A, September 2002
• M. D. Pozzobon, "Capturing Xbox System Link Traffic while playing Halo",(html) CAIA Technical Report 020802A, August 2002.
• G. J. Armitage, "Inferring the Extent of Network Address Port Translation at Public/Private Internet Boundaries," (pdf) CAIA Technical Report 020712A, July 2002.