Ethan Katz-Bassett
   ethan AT ee DOT columbia DOT edu
   Office: CEPSR 817
   Mail: 500 West 120th Street
   Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
   New York, NY 10027
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2023
  • MASON: Scalable, Contiguous Sequencing for Building Consistent Services
    C. Hodsdon, T. Stavrinos, E. Katz-Bassett, W. Lloyd.
    Journal of Systems Research (JSys), 2023.
  • Who squats IPv4 Addresses?
    L. Salamatian, T. Arnold, I. Cunha, J. Zhu, Y. Zhang, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Calder.
    SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), 2023.
2022
  • The Best of Both Worlds: High Availability CDN Routing Without Compromising Control
    J. Zhu, K. Vermeulen, I. Cunha, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Calder.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2022.
    Awarded Best Short Paper.
  • Internet Scale Reverse Traceroute
    K. Vermeulen, E. Gurmericliler, I. Cunha, D. Choffnes, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2022.
  • Automatic Inference of BGP Location Communities
    B. A. Da Silva Jr., P. Mol, O. Fonseca, I. Cunha, R. A. Ferreira, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance, 2022
    Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS), 2022
2021
  • Towards an Internet Traffic Map
    T. Koch, W. Jiang, T. Luo, P. Gigis, Y. Zhang, K. Vermeulen, E. Aben, M. Calder, E. Katz-Bassett, L. Manassakis, G. Smaragdakis, N. Vallina-Rodriguez
    ACM Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2021.
  • Towards Identifying Networks with Internet Clients Using Public Data
    W. Jiang, T. Luo, T. Koch, Y. Zhang, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Calder
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2021.
  • Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants' Off-Nets
    P. Gigis, M. Calder, L. Manassakis, G. Nomikos, V. Kotronis, X. Dimitropoulos, E. Katz-Bassett, G. Smaragdakis.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2021.
    Awarded Best Paper.
  • Anycast in Context: A Tale of Two Systems
    T. Koch, K. Li, C. Ardi. M. Calder, J. Heidemann, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2021.
  • Don't Be a Blockhead: Zoned Namespaces Make Work on Conventional SSDs Obsolete
    T. Stavrinos, D. S. Berger, E. Katz-Bassett, W. Lloyd
    Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), 2021.
  • Revitalizing the Public Internet By Making it Extensible
    H. Balakrishnan, S. Banerjee, I. Cidon, D. Culler, D. Estrin, E. Katz-Bassett, A. Krishnamurthy, M. McCauley, N. McKeown, A. Panda, S. Ratnasamy, J. Rexford, M. Schapira, S. Shenker, I. Stoica, D. Tennenhouse, A. Vahdat, E. Zegura
    SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), 2021.
  • Facebook's Tectonic Filesystem: Efficiency from Exascale
    S. Pan, T. Stavrinos, Y. Zhang, A. Sikaria, P. Zakharov, A. Sharma, S. Shankar P, M. Shuey, R. Wareing, M. Gangapuram, G. Cao, C. Preseau, P. Singh, K. Patiejunas, JR Tipton, E. Katz-Bassett, W. Lloyd
    USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2021.
2020
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Repurposing existing measurements to identify stale traceroutes
    V. Giotsas, T. Koch, E. Fazzion, I. Cunha, M. Calder, H. Madhyastha, E. Katz-Bassett
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020.
  • Cloud Provider Connectivity in the Flat Internet
    T. Arnold, J. He, W. Jiang, M. Calder, I. Cunha, V. Giotsas, E. Katz-Bassett
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020.
  • On the Future of Congestion Control for the Public Internet
    L. Brown, G. Ananthanarayanan, E. Katz-Bassett, A. Krishnamurthy, S. Ratnasamy, M. Schapira, S. Shenker
    ACM Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2020.
  • (How Much) Does a Private WAN Improve Cloud Performance?
    T. Arnold, E. Gurmericliler, G. Essig, A. Gupta, M. Calder, V. Giotsas, E. Katz-Bassett.
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2020.
  • Tracking Down Sources of Spoofed IP Packets
    O. Fonseca, I. Cunha, E. Fazzion, W. Meira Jr., B. Junior, R. A. Ferreira, E. Katz-Bassett.
    IFIP Networking 2020 Conference (NETWORKING), 2020.
    Awarded Best Paper Runner-Up.
  • DISCO: Sidestepping RPKI's Deployment Barriers
    T. Hlavacek, I. Cunha, Y. Gilad, A. Herzberg, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Schapira, H. Shulman
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2020.
2019
  • Internet Performance from Facebook's Edge
    B. Schlinker, I. Cunha, Y. Chiu, S. Sundaresan, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2019.
  • PEERING: Virtualizing BGP at the Edge for Research
    B. Schlinker, T. Arnold, I. Cunha, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2019.
  • Beating BGP is Harder than We Thought
    T. Arnold, M. Calder, A. Gupta, I. Cunha, H. Madhyastha, M. Schapira, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2019.
  • Requet: Real-time QoE detection for encrypted YouTube traffic
    C. Gutterman, K. Guo, S. Arora, X. Wang, L. Wu, E. Katz-Bassett, G. Zussman.
    ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), 2019.
2018
  • Understanding Video Management Planes
    Z. Akhtar, Y. S. Nam, J. Chen, R. Govindan, E. Katz Bassett, S. Rao, J. Zhan, H. Zhang.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2018.
  • Oboe: Auto-tuning video ABR algorithms to network conditions
    Z. Akhtar, Y. S. Nam, E. Katz Bassett, J. Chen, R. Govindan, S. Rao, B. M. Ribeiro, J. Zhan, H. Zhang.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2018.
  • Odin: Microsoft's Scalable Fault-Tolerant CDN Measurement System
    M. Calder, R. Gao, M. Schroder, R. Stewart, J. Padhye, R. Mahajan, G. Ananthanarayanan, E. Katz-Bassett.
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), 2018.
  • Towards a Rigorous Methodology for Measuring Adoption of RPKI Route Validation and Filtering
    A. Reuter, R. Bush, I. Cunha, E. Katz-Bassett, T. Schmidt, M. Wahlisch.
    SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), 2018.
    Awarded Best of SIGCOMM CCR.
2017
  • The Record Route Option is an Option!
    B. Goodchild, Y. Chiu, R. Hansen, H. Lu, M. Calder, M. Luckie, W. Lloyd, D. Choffnes, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2017.
  • Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric: Steering Oceans of Content to the World
    B. Schlinker, H. Kim, T. Cui, E. Katz-Bassett, H. Madhyastha, I. Cunha, J. Quinn, S. Hasan, P. Lapukhov, H. Zeng.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2017.
    Awarded IETF Applied Networking Research Prize.
2016
  • An Internet-Wide Analysis of Traffic Policing
    T. Flach, P. Papageorge, A. Terzis, L. Pedrosa, Y. Cheng, T. Karim, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Govindan.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2016. Associated papers:
    • A Longitudinal Analysis of Traffic Policing Across the Web
      T. Flach, L. Pedrosa, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Govindan.
      USC Computer Science Technical Report 15-961, 2015.
    • BingeOn Under the Microscope: Understanding T-Mobile's Zero-Rating Implementation
      A. M. Kakhki, F. Li, D. Choffnes, A. Mislove, E. Katz-Bassett.
      ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Quality of Experience, 2016.
  • Helping Conference Attendees Better Understand Research Presentations
    E. Katz-Bassett, J. Sherry, T.-Y. Huang, M. Kazandjieva, C. Partridge, and F. Dogar.
    Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2016.
  • Sibyl: A Practical Internet Route Oracle
    I. Cunha, P. Marchetta, M. Calder, Y. Chiu, B. Schlinker, B. Machado, A. Pescape, V. Giotsas, H. Madhyastha, E. Katz-Bassett.
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), 2016.
  • Modeling HTTP/2 Speed from HTTP/1 Traces
    K. Zarifis, M. Holland, M. Jain, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Govindan.
    Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), 2016.
  • DBit: Assessing Statistically Significant Differences in CDN Performance
    Z. Akhtar, A. Hussain, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Govindan.
    Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA), 2016.
2015
  • Are We One Hop Away from a Better Internet?
    Y. Chiu, B. Schlinker, A. B. Radhakrishnan, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Govindan.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2015.
  • Analyzing the Performance of an Anycast CDN
    M. Calder, A. Flavel, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Mahajan, J. Padhye.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2015.
  • Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies in the Wild
    R. Anwar, H. Niaz, D. Choffnes, I. Cunha, P. Gill, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2015.
  • Condor: Better Topologies Through Declarative Design
    B. Schlinker, R. N. Mysore, S. Smith, J. C. Mogul, A. Vahdat, M. Yu, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Rubin.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2015.
  • Investigating Transparent Web Proxies in Cellular Networks
    X. Xu, Y. Jiang, T. Flach, E. Katz-Bassett, D. Choffnes, R. Govindan.
    Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), 2015.
  • Assessing Affinity Between Users and CDN Sites
    X. Fan, E. Katz-Bassett, J. Heidemann.
    Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA), 2015.
2014
  • Flexible Internet Routing for Cloud Tenants and Cloud Researchers
    E. Katz-Bassett and B. Schlinker.
    NSFCloud Workshop on Experimental Support for Cloud Computing, 2014.
  • PEERING: An AS for Us
    B. Schlinker, K. Zarifis, I. Cunha, N. Feamster, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2014.
  • SDX: A Software Defined Internet Exchange
    A. Gupta, L. Vanbever, M. Shahbaz, S. P. Donovan, B. Schlinker, N. Feamster, J. Rexford, S. Shenker, R. Clark, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2014.
  • DIBS: Just-in-time Congestion Mitigation for Data Centers
    K. Zarifis, R. Miao, M. Calder, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Yu, J. Padhye.
    European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2014.
  • Diagnosing Path Inflation of Mobile Client Traffic
    K. Zarifis, T. Flach, S. Nori, D. Choffnes, R. Govindan, E. Katz-Bassett, Z. M. Mao, M. Welsh.
    Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), 2014.
  • Peering at the Internet's Frontier: A First Look at ISP Interconnectivity in Africa
    A. Gupta, M. Calder, N. Feamster, M. Chetty, E. Calandro, E. Katz-Bassett.
    Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), 2014.
  • The Need for End-to-End Evaluation of Cloud Availability
    Z. Hu, L. Zhu, C. Ardi, E. Katz-Bassett, H. Madhyastha, J. Heidemann, M. Yu.
    Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), 2014.
  • Mobile Network Performance from User Devices: A Longitudinal, Multidimensional Analysis
    A. Nikravesh, D. Choffnes, E. Katz-Bassett, Z. M. Mao, M. Welsh.
    Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), 2014.
  • Dissecting Round Trip Time on the Slow Path Using a One-Packet Approach
    P. Marchetta, A. Botta, E. Katz-Bassett, A. Pescape.
    Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM), 2014.
  • Try Before you Buy: SDN Emulation with (Real) Interdomain Routing
    B. Schlinker, K. Zarifis, I. Cunha, N. Feamster, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Yu.
    Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2014.
2013
  • Towards Impactful Routing Research: Running Your Own (Emulated) AS on the (Real) Internet
    B. Schlinker, K. Zarifis, I. Cunha, N. Feamster, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Yu.
    ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2013.
  • Don't Trust Traceroute (Completely)
    P. Marchetta, V. Persico, E. Katz-Bassett, A. Pescape.
    ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2013.
    Awarded Best Paper.
  • Diagnosing Slow Web Page Access at the Client Side
    T. Flach, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Govindan.
    ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2013.
  • SPANStore: Cost-Effective Geo-Replicated Storage Spanning Multiple Cloud Services
    Z. Wu, M. Butkiewicz, D. Perkins, E. Katz-Bassett, H. Madhyastha.
    ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2013.
  • Mapping the Expansion of Google's Serving Infrastructure
    M. Calder, X. Fan, Z. Hu, R. Govindan, J. Heidemann, E. Katz-Bassett.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2013.
  • Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression
    T. Flach, N. Dukkipati, A. Terzis, B. Raghavan, N. Cardwell, Y. Cheng, A. Jain, S. Hao, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Govindan.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2013.
    Awarded IETF Applied Networking Research Prize.
  • PoiRoot: Investigating the Root Cause of Interdomain Path Changes
    U. Javed, I. Cunha, D. Choffnes, E. Katz-Bassett, A. Krishnamurthy, T. Anderson.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2013.
  • Don't Drop, Detour!
    K. Zarifis, R. Miao, M. Calder, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Yu, J. Padhye.
    ACM SIGCOMM poster, 2013.
2012
  • Quantifying Violations of Destination-based Forwarding on the Internet
    T. Flach, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Govindan.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2012.
  • LIFEGUARD: Practical Repair of Persistent Route Failures
    E. Katz-Bassett, C. Scott, D. Choffnes, I. Cunha, V. Valancius, N. Feamster, H. Madhyastha, T. Anderson, A. Krishnamurthy.
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2012.
During Graduate School
  • Systems for Improving Internet Availability and Performance
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, January 2012.
    William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award.
  • Machiavellian Routing: Improving Internet Availability with BGP Poisoning
    E. Katz-Bassett, D. R. Choffnes, I. Cunha, C. Scott, T. Anderson, A. Krishnamurthy.
    ACM Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-X), November 2011.
  • Resolving IP Aliases with Prespecified Timestamps
    J. Sherry, E. Katz-Bassett, M. Pimenova, H. V. Madhyastha, T. Anderson, A. Krishnamurthy.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2010.
  • Reverse Traceroute [ paper, slides, video ]
    E. Katz-Bassett, H. V. Madhyastha, V. K. Adhikari, C. Scott, J. Sherry, P. van Wesep, T. Anderson, A. Krishnamurthy.
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), 2010.
    Awarded Best Paper.
  • iPlane Nano: Path Prediction for Peer-to-Peer Applications
    H. V. Madhyastha, E. Katz-Bassett, T. Anderson, A. Krishnamurthy, A. Venkataramani.
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), 2009.
  • Measuring the Internet by Coordinating Distributed Vantage Points (extended abstract)
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    SIGMETRICS 2009 Student Thesis Panel, June 2009.
  • Studying Black Holes in the Internet with Hubble
    E. Katz-Bassett, H. V. Madhyastha, J. P. John, A. Krishnamurthy, D. Wetherall, T. Anderson.
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), 2008.
    Highest Rated Paper in Conference [1].
  • Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System
    J. P. John, E. Katz-Bassett, A. Krishnamurthy, T. Anderson, A. Venkataramani.
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), 2008.
    Awarded Best Paper.
  • Increasing Patient Safety and Efficiency in Transfusion Medicine Using Process Formalization
    E. A. Henneman, R. Cobleigh, K. Frederick, E. Katz-Bassett, G. S. Avrunin, L. A. Clarke, L. J. Osterweil, C. Andrzejewski Jr., K. Merrigan, P. L. Henneman.
    Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 21(1):49-57. January 2007.
  • Towards IP Geolocation using Delay and Topology Measurements
    E. Katz-Bassett, J. P. John, A. Krishnamurthy, D. Wetherall, T. Anderson, Y. Chawathe.
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2006.
Other Presentations
  • Impactful Routing Research with the PEERING Testbed.
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) 61 Lightning Talk, 2014.
  • Reverse Traceroute & Hubble: Systems to Troubleshoot Internet Performance and Reliability
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6, University Pierre et Marie Curie, May 2009.
  • The Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS) Report
    M. Fomenkov, kc claffy, E. Katz-Bassett, R. Beverly, B. Cox, P. Haga.
    ISMA 2009 AIMS - Workshop on Active Internet Measurements, February 2009.
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), October 2009.
  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Spoof
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    ISMA 2009 AIMS - Workshop on Active Internet Measurements, February 2009.
  • Hubble & Reverse Traceroute: Systems to Improve Internet Reliability and Performance
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, November 2008.
  • Reverse Traceroute (PDF slides available.)
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE) 58, May 2009.
  • Practical Reverse Traceroute (Video and PDF slides available.)
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) 45, January 2009.
  • Monitoring Internet Reachability Problems with Hubble
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    Gnomedex, August 2008.
  • Measuring Reverse Paths
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    10th CAIDA-WIDE Workshop, August 2008.
  • Studying Black Holes on the Internet with Hubble
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    10th CAIDA-WIDE Workshop, August 2008.
  • Hubble: Monitoring Internet Reachability in Real Time
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE) 56, May 2008.
  • Real-time Blackhole Analysis with Hubble (Video and PDF slides available.)
    E. Katz-Bassett.
    North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) 40, June 2007.
Press
  • Internet Full of 'Black Holes'
    LiveScience,com, www.msnbc.com, www.foxnews.com, and other sites.
    April 2008.
  • 'Connected' interview, 95.7 KJR FM, April 2008.
  • Researchers map Internet's 'black holes', ComputerWorld, April 2008.
  • Researchers map Internet black holes, Ars Technica, April 2008.
  • Boing Boing, Digg, and Slashdot, April 2008.
  • Hubble maps the changing constellation of Internet 'black holes', University of Washington News, April 2008.
  • Researchers Chart Internet's 'Black Holes', Wired.com, June 2007.

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