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.)

2009
1.	Sebastian Zander and Philip Branch and Grenville Armitage. Estimating the Capacity of Temperature-based Covert Channels CAIA Technical report 091218A, 18 December 2009 (667.8kB). bibtex
2.	Roxanne R Pashaei. TrackMania Nations Forever network traffic - a preliminary study CAIA Technical report 091202A, 02 December 2009 (964.9kB). bibtex
3.	Tung M Le and Jason But. Bittorrent traffic classification CAIA Technical report 091022A, 22 October 2009 (428.1kB). bibtex
4.	Suong Nguyen, Hai Vu and Lachlan Andrew. Performance analysis of 802.11e EDCA WLANs with saturated and non-saturated sources CAIA Technical report 091013A, 13 October 2009 (228.4kB). bibtex
5.	Lam Hoang Do and Philip Branch. Real Time VoIP Traffic Classification CAIA Technical report 090914A, 14 September 2009 (294.6kB). bibtex
6.	Christopher Leong. Further Optimising Online FPS Game Server Discovery CAIA Technical report 090911A, 11 September 2009 (491.2kB). bibtex
7.	Mattia Rossi. Quagga-Accelerator: An Implementation for Accelerated Processing of Historical BGP Events using Quagga 0.99.13 - version 0.1 CAIA Technical report 090730C, 30 July 2009 (239.7kB). bibtex
8.	Mattia Rossi. MRT dump file manipulation toolkit (MDFMT) - version 0.2 CAIA Technical report 090730B, 30 July 2009 (132.7kB). bibtex
9.	Mattia Rossi. Implementing path-exploration damping in the Quagga Software Routing Suite Version 0.99.13 - patch set version 0.3 CAIA Technical report 090730A, 30 July 2009 (222.9kB). bibtex
10.	Mattia Rossi. MRT dump file manipulation toolkit (MDFMT) - version 0.1 CAIA Technical report 090403A, 03 April 2009 (92.7kB). bibtex
11.	Mattia Rossi. Implementing path-exploration damping in the Quagga Software routing Suite Version 0.99.11 - patch set version 0.2 CAIA Technical report 090327A, 27 March 2009 (221.4kB). bibtex
12.	Mattia Rossi and Grenville Armitage. Accelerated Processing of Historical BGP Events for Testing New BGP Heuristics CAIA Technical report 090321A, 21 March 2009 (205.4kB). bibtex
13.	Grenville Armitage and Philip Branch. An Exponential Arrival Model for Half-Life 2 Server Discovery Traffic CAIA Technical report 090225A, 25 February 2009 (93.9kB). bibtex
14.	Amiel Heyde. Protecting SSH at the Transport Layer CAIA Technical report 090119A, 19 January 2009 (112.4kB). bibtex
2008
1.	David Hayes and Jason But. SCTP NAT Automatic Test Utilities CAIA Technical report 081128B, 28 November 2008 (175.6kB). bibtex
2.	David Hayes and Jason But. Alias sctp Version 0.2: SCTP NAT implementation in IPFW CAIA Technical report 081128A, 28 November 2008 (282.0kB). bibtex
3.	Philip Branch and Sebastian Zander. Bit-Stuffing Rate in the High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) Protocol CAIA Technical report 081121A, 21 November 2008 (103.1kB). bibtex
4.	Mattia Rossi. Implementing path-exploration damping in the Quagga Software Routing Suite Version 0.99.10 CAIA Technical report 081117A, 17 November 2008 (218.3kB). bibtex
5.	Alana Huebner. Capping of cwnd growth in FreeBSD's NewReno over high BDP paths CAIA Technical report 080829A, 29 August 2008 (333.4kB). bibtex
6.	Alana Huebner. Experimental Evaluation of Latency Induced in Real-Time Traffic by TCP Congestion Control Algorithms CAIA Technical report 080818A, 18 August 2008 (2.0MB). bibtex
7.	David Hayes and Jason But. Alias_sctp Version 0.1: SCTP NAT implementation in IPFW CAIA Technical report 080618A, 18 June 2008 (177.7kB). bibtex
8.	Amiel Heyde. Using Synthetic Packet Pairs to Investigate Real-time Latency Variations over Home Broadband Connections CAIA Technical report 080530B, 30 May 2008 (1.8MB). bibtex
9.	Sebastian Zander and Grenville Armitage. CCHEF - Covert Channels Evaluation Framework Design and Implementation CAIA Technical report 080530A, 30 May 2008 (166.1kB). bibtex
10.	Amiel Heyde and Lawrence Stewart. Using the Endace DAG 3.7GF Card With FreeBSD 7.0 CAIA Technical report 080507A, 07 May 2008 (207.2kB). bibtex
11.	Lucas Parry. L3DGEWorld 2.3 Hierarchy & Room Reuse Documentation CAIA Technical report 080222D, 22 February 2008 (114.7kB). bibtex
12.	Lucas Parry. L3DGEWorld 2.3 Input & Output Specifications CAIA Technical report 080222C, 22 February 2008 (475.3kB). bibtex
13.	Grenville Armitage. Over-estimation of game server RTT during FPS server discovery CAIA Technical report 080222B, 22 February 2008 (2.3MB). bibtex
14.	Amiel Heyde. Investigating the performance of Endace DAG monitoring hardware and Intel NICs in the context of Lawful Interception CAIA Technical report 080222A, 22 February 2008 (624.5kB). bibtex
15.	Jason But and Adam Black. VTun UDP Packet Dissector for Wireshark/Ethereal CAIA Technical report 080111A, 11 January 2008 (205.4kB). bibtex
2007
1.	Lucas Parry. L3DGEWorld 2.2 Input & Output Specifications CAIA Technical report 071218B, 18 December 2007 (472.7kB). bibtex
2.	Lawrence Stewart and James Healy. Light-Weight Modular TCP Congestion Control for FreeBSD 7 CAIA Technical report 071218A, 18 December 2007 (141.5kB). bibtex
3.	Adam Black. LCMON Network Traffic Analysis CAIA Technical report 071029A, 29 October 2007 (207.0kB). bibtex
4.	Thuy Nguyen and Adam Black. Preliminary Study on Power Consumption of Typical Home Network Devices CAIA Technical report 071011A, 11 October 2007 (772.7kB). bibtex
5.	Adam Black and Thuy Nguyen. Calibration of the Tektronix TDS 2014 Digital Oscilloscope CAIA Technical report 071008A, 08 October 2007 (191.8kB). bibtex
6.	Grenville Armitage. Distribution of IP Source Addresses Experienced By Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Game Servers CAIA Technical report 070904A, 04 September 2007 (1.1MB). bibtex
7.	Lawrence Stewart, Grenville Armitage and James Healy. Characterising the Behaviour and Performance of SIFTR v1.1.0 CAIA Technical report 070824A, 24 August 2007 (335.9kB). bibtex
8.	Carl Javier. Map & Entity Modeling for L3DGEWorld CAIA Technical report 070809A, 09 August 2007. bibtex
9.	Lucas Parry. L3DGEWorld 2.1 Input & Output Specifications CAIA Technical report 070808A, 08 August 2007 (432.8kB). bibtex
10.	Grenville Armitage. Server Discovery for Quake III Arena, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory and Quake 4 CAIA Technical report 070730A, 30 July 2007 (808.4kB). bibtex
11.	Adam Black. Induced Noise in Oscilloscope Cabling CAIA Technical report 070724A, 24 July 2007. bibtex
12.	Lawrence Stewart and James Healy. Tuning and Testing the FreeBSD 6 TCP Stack CAIA Technical report 070717B, 17 July 2007 (116.5kB). bibtex
13.	Adam Black. Aquisition and Retrieval Performance of the Tektronix TDS 2014 as a Data Logger CAIA Technical report 070717A, 17 July 2007 (243.1kB). bibtex
14.	Lawrence Stewart and James Healy. An Introduction to FreeBSD 6 Kernel Hacking CAIA Technical report 070622A, 22 June 2007 (156.6kB). bibtex
15.	Sebastian Zander, Grenville Armitage and Philip Branch. Dynamics of the IP Time To Live Field in Internet Traffic Flows CAIA Technical report 070529A, 29 May 2007 (213.1kB). bibtex
16.	Adam Black. Silent Packet Dropping With Stockade CAIA Technical report 070424A, 24 April 2007 (196.1kB). bibtex
17.	Adam Black and Malcom Robb. Stockade Performance and Stability Testing CAIA Technical report 070402B, 02 April 2007 (255.4kB). bibtex
18.	Warren Harrop and Lucas Parry. L3DGEWorld 1.0 Input/Output Layer Specifications CAIA Technical report 070402A, 02 April 2007 (339.8kB). bibtex
19.	Jason But. Generating CAIA Technical Reports and Slide Presentations Using LaTeX CAIA Technical report 070312A, 12 March 2007 (125.8kB). bibtex
20.	A. Shoolman. Ping Estimation in Enemy Territory CAIA Technical report 070122A, 22 January 2007 (146.8kB). bibtex
2006
1.	Grenville Armitage, Carl Javier and Sebastian Zander. Post-game Estimation of Game Client RTT and Hop Count Distributions CAIA Technical report 060801A, 01 August 2006 (125.9kB). bibtex
2.	Sebastian Zander, Grenville Armitage, Thuy Nguyen, Lutz Mark and Brandon Tyo. Minimally Intrusive Round Trip Time Measurements Using Synthetic Packet-Pairs CAIA Technical report 060707A, 07 July 2006 (799.6kB). bibtex
3.	Irena Atov and David Kennedy. Experimental Evaluation of FAST TCP Performance and Fairness in DOCSIS Cable Modem Networks CAIA Technical report 060523A, 23 May 2006 (253.7kB). bibtex
4.	Sebastian Zander. Misclassification of Game Traffic based on Port Numbers: A Case Study using Enemy Territory CAIA Technical report 060410D, 10 April 2006 (174.7kB). bibtex
5.	Nigel Williams, Sebastian Zander and Grenville Armitage. Evaluating Machine Learning Methods for Online Game Traffic Identification CAIA Technical report 060410C, 10 April 2006 (363.7kB). bibtex
6.	Nigel Williams, Sebastian Zander and Grenville Armitage. Evaluating Machine Learning Algorithms for Automated Network Application Identification CAIA Technical report 060410B, 10 April 2006 (332.5kB). bibtex
7.	Grenville Armitage, Carl Javier and Sebastian Zander. Measuring a Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Master Server's Response to Game Client Queries CAIA Technical report 060410A, 10 April 2006 (864.6kB). bibtex
8.	Sebastian Zander, Nigel Williams and Grenville Armitage. Internet Archeology: Estimating Individual Application Trends in Incomplete Historic Traffic Traces CAIA Technical report 060313A, 13 March 2006 (128.7kB). bibtex
9.	Grenville Armitage, Carl Javier and Sebastian Zander. Client RTT and Hop Count Distributions viewed from an Australian Enemy Territory Server CAIA Technical report 060223A, 23 February 2006 (137.8kB). bibtex
10.	Julie-Anne Bussiere and Sebastian Zander. Enemy Territory Traffic Analysis CAIA Technical report 060203A, 03 February 2006 (329.2kB). bibtex
11.	David Kennedy and Irena Atov. Implementing a Testbed for the Evaluation of FAST TCP in DOCSIS-based Access Networks CAIA Technical report 060119A, 19 January 2006 (137.7kB). bibtex
2005
1.	Jason But and Julie-Anne Bussiere. Improving NetSniff Capture Performance on FreeBSD by Increasing the PCAP Capture Buffer Size CAIA Technical report 051027A, 27 October 2005 (40.3kB). bibtex
2.	Julie-Anne Bussiere and Jason But. Measuring the Live Capture Performance of NetSniff CAIA Technical report 051004A, 04 October 2005 (78.7kB). bibtex
3.	Philip Branch and Grenville Armitage. Towards a General Model of First Person Shooter Game Traffic CAIA Technical report 050928A, 28 September 2005 (1.3MB). bibtex
4.	Julie-Anne Bussiere and Jason But. Measuring the Processing Performance of NetSniff CAIA Technical report 050823A, 23 August 2005 (68.1kB). bibtex
5.	Gareth Edwards, Joanne Ly and Huu Ngoc Duy Nguyen. The Remote Unix Lab Environment (RULE) System Upgrade Prototype CAIA Technical report 050722A, 22 July 2005. bibtex Restricted Access
6.	Julie-Anne Bussiere and Jason But. Measuring the Processing Performance of NetSniff: Testbed Design CAIA Technical report 050623A, 23 June 2005 (35.7kB). bibtex
7.	Julie-Anne Bussiere and Jason But. Analyzing IP Traffic Captured by Netsniff CAIA Technical report 050617A, 17 June 2005 (367.0kB). bibtex
8.	Julie-Anne Bussiere and Sebastian Zander. Empirical Measurements of Player QoS Sensitivity for the Xbox Game Halo2 CAIA Technical report 050527A, 27 May 2005 (74.8kB). bibtex
9.	Jason But. Using Not AutoMake to develop platform independent build environments CAIA Technical report 050412A, 12 April 2005. bibtex
10.	Jason But, Urs Keller and Grenville Armitage. A rationale for web caching in consumer ISPs: The impact of DNS lookup times and HTTP session characteristics CAIA Technical report 050218A, 18 February 2005 (893.1kB). bibtex
11.	Urs Keller and Jason But. Extending Netsniff CAIA Technical report 050204B, 04 February 2005 (192.9kB). bibtex
12.	Urs Keller and Jason But. Netsniff - Design and Implementation Concepts CAIA Technical report 050204A, 04 February 2005 (230.6kB). bibtex
13.	Sebastian Zander, David Kennedy and Grenville Armitage. KUTE A High Performance Kernel-based UDP Traffic Engine CAIA Technical report 050118A, 18 January 2005 (115.4kB). bibtex
2004
1.	Jason But. 802.11 Wireless Network Access at Swinburne Using FreeBSD 5.3 CAIA Technical report 041221A, 21 December 2004. bibtex
2.	Kris Mitchell. Installing Microsoft Office 2000 on FreeBSD 5.3 at CAIA CAIA Technical report 041203A, 03 December 2004. bibtex
3.	Jason But. User mounting of Removable Devices on FreeBSD 5.3 CAIA Technical report 041130A, 30 November 2004. bibtex
4.	Kris Mitchell and Jason But. Installing Microsoft Office 2000 on FreeBSD 5.3 CAIA Technical report 041129A, 29 November 2004. bibtex
5.	David Kennedy and Sebastian Zander. Investigating the Influence of HTTP Traffic on the Accuracy of Packet Time Stamping CAIA Technical report 041124A, 24 November 2004 (33.5kB). bibtex
6.	Nigel Williams and Joanne Ly. Prototype Development for Secure Public Instant Messaging (IM) At Work CAIA Technical report 041123A, 23 November 2004 (2.4MB). bibtex
7.	Brandon Tyo. Running a Quake 3 mod on Enemy Territory CAIA Technical report 041117A, 17 November 2004. bibtex Restricted Access
8.	David Kennedy and Brandon Tyo. Configuring a 'Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory' Server for Online Play CAIA Technical report 040831A, 31 August 2004 (16.8kB). bibtex
9.	John Nguyen. The impact of Microsoft Windows infection vectors on IP network traffic patterns CAIA Technical report 040804A, 04 August 2004 (593.5kB). bibtex
10.	Nigel Williams and Joanne Ly. Securing Public Instant Messaging (IM) At Work CAIA Technical report 040726A, 26 July 2004 (812.5kB). bibtex
11.	Tanja Zseby and Sebastian Zander. Sampling Schemes for Validating Service Level Agreements CAIA Technical report 040706A, 06 July 2004 (165.8kB). bibtex
12.	Ana Pavlicic. Bypassing Unintelligent Lawful Interception in a FreeBSD Environment, CAIA Technical report 040629A, 29 June 2004. bibtex Restricted Access
13.	Ana Pavlicic. Logicam QuickCam Express Over Yahoo! Messenger Traffic Characteristics CAIA Technical report 040625B, 25 June 2004. bibtex
14.	Ana Pavlicic. Dummynet on the GENIUS Bridge Machine CAIA Technical report 040625A, 25 June 2004 (29.7kB). bibtex
15.	Irena Atov. QNA Inverse Model for Capacity Provisioning in Delay Constrained IP Networks CAIA Technical report 040611A, 11 June 2004 (230.9kB). bibtex
16.	Jason But. Videoconferencing under FreeBSD CAIA Technical report 040517A, 17 May 2004. bibtex
17.	Ana Pavlicic. Evaluating ASUS P4P800VM ATX Motherboards CAIA Technical report 040513A, 13 May 2004. bibtex
18.	Jason But. Limitations of Existing MPEG-1 Ciphers for Streaming Video CAIA Technical report 040429A, 29 April 2004 (84.0kB). bibtex
19.	Ana Pavlicic and Hwan-Yi Choo. Logicam QuickCam Express Web Camera Packet and Traffic Characteristics CAIA Technical report 040428A, 28 April 2004. bibtex
20.	Jason But. Requirements for a Generic MPEG-1 Cipher to Function in an Existing Streaming Server Environment CAIA Technical report 040426A, 26 April 2004 (238.7kB). bibtex
21.	Lawrence Stewart, Mai Banh and Grenville Armitage. Implementing an IPv6 and Mobile IPv6 testbedusing FreeBSD 4.9 and KAME CAIA Technical report 040331A, 31 March 2004 (29.8kB). bibtex
22.	Ana Pavlicic. Comparing the Alloy NS-05C and Netgear FS608 v2 Switches Using Tcpdump CAIA Technical report 040329A, 29 March 2004 (102.5kB). bibtex
23.	Minh Tran. FreeBSD server anti-spam software using automated TCP connection control CAIA Technical report 040326A, 26 March 2004 (344.7kB). bibtex
24.	Claudio Favi1. How to include EPS files with preview in OpenOffice CAIA Technical report 040227D, 27 February 2004. bibtex
25.	Claudio Favi1. CFTStat: A tool for passive TCP analysis, statistics and user's web experience gathering CAIA Technical report 040227C, 27 February 2004 (101.8kB). bibtex
26.	W. A. Vanhonacker. Preliminary Results on an Inverted Capacity Network Simulation CAIA Technical report 040227B, 27 February 2004 (156.4kB). bibtex
27.	W. A. Vanhonacker. Characterizing Web Content CAIA Technical report 040227A, 27 February 2004 (59.4kB). bibtex
28.	Lawrence Stewart. Sources of Error When Identifying Misuse of Corporate Internet Services - A Cautionary Note CAIA Technical report 040224A, 24 February 2004 (28.8kB). bibtex
29.	Andres Rojas. SPLIT- An ISPs Interception Tool based on RADIUS Authentication CAIA Technical report 040220B, 20 February 2004. bibtex
30.	Ana Pavlicic and Andres Rojas. Setting Up RADIUS Authentication and Authorisation in a FreeBSD Environment CAIA Technical report 040220A, 20 February 2004. bibtex
31.	Ana Pavlicic, Philip Branch and Grenville Armitage. The Role of DHCP and RADIUS in Lawful Interception CAIA Technical report 040105A, 05 January 2004 (66.8kB). bibtex
2003
1.	C. Malcolm. Scalability of RULE on Workstation PCs CAIA Technical report 031218A, 18 December 2003 (40.6kB). bibtex
2.	Ana Pavlicic and Paul van den Bergen. Using a SmartBits2000 to Test an Alloy NS-16J Switch CAIA Technical report 031217B, 17 December 2003. bibtex Restricted Access
3.	Ana Pavlicic and Grenville Armitage. Testing the Alloy NS-16J Switch Using Tcpdump CAIA Technical report 031217A, 17 December 2003 (54.9kB). bibtex
4.	Grenville Armitage. Simple Local DHCP Service under FreeBSD CAIA Technical report 031215A, 15 December 2003. bibtex
5.	Tanja Lang. User Experience while playing Halo with network delay or loss, CAIA Technical report 031205A, 05 December 2003 (368.0kB). bibtex
6.	Ana Pavlicic and Thuy Nguyen. Evaluating ASUS P4SGX-MX ATX Motherboards for the BART Project CAIA Technical report 031202B, 02 December 2003. bibtex
7.	W. A. Vanhonacker. Evaluation of the FreeBSD dummynet network performance simulation tool on a Pentium 4-based Ethernet Bridge CAIA Technical report 031202A, 02 December 2003 (139.6kB). bibtex
8.	Ana Pavlicic. Capturing Xbox System Link Traffic While Playing TimeSplitters2 CAIA Technical report 031009A, 09 October 2003. bibtex
9.	Ana Pavlicic and Grenville Armitage. Quake 3 Packet Inter-Arrival and Length Over the Internet CAIA Technical report 030919B, 19 September 2003. bibtex
10.	Warren Harrop. Real time interception and filtering of instant messaging protocols CAIA Technical report 030919A, 19 September 2003 (34.4kB). bibtex
11.	Paul van den Bergen and Grenville Armitage. Experimental Intranet Services over Swinburne's 802.11b Wireless Infrastructure CAIA Technical report 030730A, 30 July 2003 (138.9kB). bibtex
12.	Grenville Armitage. Playing Quake 3 under FreeBSD 4.8 with an nVidia Graphics Card CAIA Technical report 030722A, 22 July 2003. bibtex
13.	Ana Pavlicic. The NEC e606 Third Generation Mobile Communication Handset CAIA Technical report 030715A, 15 July 2003 (47.7kB). bibtex
14.	Tanja Lang and Grenville Armitage. A Ns2 model for the Xbox System Link game Halo CAIA Technical report 030613A, 13 June 2003 (477.7kB). bibtex
15.	Philip Branch. Lawful Interception of the Internet CAIA Technical report 030606A, 06 June 2003 (70.8kB). bibtex
16.	Sebastian Zander, Grenville Armitage and C. Malcolm. Dynamics and Cachability of WebSites: Implications for Inverted Capacity Networks CAIA Technical report 030405B, 05 April 2003 (169.8kB). bibtex
17.	Grenville Armitage. An Experimental Estimation of Latency Sensitivity In Multiplayer Quake 3 CAIA Technical report 030405A, 05 April 2003 (115.1kB). bibtex
18.	Paul van den Bergen. Implementing 802.11b Wireless using FreeBSD on VIA mini-ITX Motherboards CAIA Technical report 030403A, 03 April 2003 (78.5kB). bibtex
19.	A. L. Cricenti. Evaluation of a Pentium PC for use as an Ethernet Bridge CAIA Technical report 030326A, 26 March 2003 (314.5kB). bibtex
20.	Grenville Armitage. Maximising Student Exposure to Unix Networking using FreeBSD Virtual Hosts CAIA Technical report 030320A, 20 March 2003 (106.8kB). bibtex
21.	Grenville Armitage. Building a Console Server using FreeBSD 4.7 CAIA Technical report 030219A, 19 February 2003. bibtex
2002
1.	Grenville Armitage. Eight Players, Two Xboxes, One Screen CAIA Technical report 021224A, 24 December 2002. bibtex
2.	M. D. Pozzobon. Quake 3 Packet and Traffic Characteristics CAIA Technical report 021220A, 20 December 2002. bibtex
3.	Grenville Armitage. Incremental Backups under FreeBSD 4.x using Rsync CAIA Technical report 020927A, 27 September 2002. bibtex
4.	M. D. Pozzobon. Evaluation of laboratory computers for use as traffic monitors CAIA Technical report 020924A, 24 September 2002. bibtex
5.	M. D. Pozzobon. Capturing Xbox System Link Traffic while playing Halo CAIA Technical report 020802A, 02 August 2002. bibtex
6.	Grenville Armitage. Inferring the Extent of Network Address Port Translation at Public/Private Internet Boundaries CAIA Technical report 020712A, 12 July 2002 (63.5kB). bibtex