Table of Contents

Publications

Athina's profile at at Google Scholar.

Journal Papers

2013

[J18]
P. Sattari, A. Markopoulou, C. Fragouli, M. Gjoka, "A Network Coding Approach to Loss Tomography," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, Issue 3, pp. 1532 - 1562, March 2013, arXiv version.
[J17]
E. Magli, M.Wang, P.Frossard, A.Markopoulou, “Network Coding meets Multimedia: a Review”, accepted to IEEE Trans. on Multimedia. arxiv version
[J16]
P. Sattari, C. Fragouli, A. Markopoulou, "Active topology Inference using Network Coding," in the Elsevier Physical Communication, Special Issue on Network Coding and its Applications to Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, pp. 142 - 163, March 2013.
2011
[J15]
A. Le and A. Markopoulou, "Cooperative Defense Against Pollution Attacks in Network Coding Using SpaceMac", accepted to IEEE JSAC on "Cooperative Networking Challenges and Applications", Vol. 30(2), pp. 442-449, Feb. 2012 (extended version).
[J14]
F. Soldo, K. Argyraki, A. Markopoulou, "Optimal Source-Based Filtering of Malicious Traffic", in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 20(2), pp. 381–395, July 2011.
[J13]
M. Gjoka, M. Kurant, C. Butts, A. Markopoulou, "Practical Recommendations on Crawling Online Social Networks", in IEEE JSAC on Measurement of Internet Topologies, Vol.29, No. 9, Oct. 2011.
[J12]
M.Gjoka, C.Butts, M.Kurant, A.Markopoulou, "Multigraph Sampling of Online Social Networks", in IEEE JSAC on Measurement of Internet Topologies, Vol. 29, No. 9, Oct. 2011.
[J11]
M.Kurant, A.Markopoulou, P.Thiran, "Towards Unbiased BFS Sampling", in IEEE JSAC on Measurements of Internet Topologies, Vol. 29, No. 9, Oct. 2011.
[J10]
F.Soldo, A. Le, A. Markopoulou, Blacklisting Recommendation System: Using Spatio-Temporal Patterns to Predict Future Attacks", in IEEE JSAC on Forensics for Communications and Networking, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 1423– 1438, August 2011.
2010
[J9]
H.Seferoglu, A.Markopoulou, U.Kozat. J.Kempf, R.Civanlar, "Dynamic FEC Algorithms for TFRC Flows", in IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol 12(8), pp: 869 – 885, Dec. 2010.
2009
[J8]
H.Seferoglu, A.Markopoulou, "Video-Aware Opportunistic Network Coding over Wireless Networks", in JSAC, Special Issue on "Network Coding over Wireless Communication Networks", vol.27(5), pp:713 – 728, June 2009.
2008
[J7]
Y.Li, A.Markopoulou, J.Apostolopoulos, N.Bambos, "Joint Control of Packet Scheduling and Content-Aware Playout for Video Streaming over Wireless Links", in IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 10, Issue 5, pp: 885 – 895, Aug. 2008.
[J6]
A. Markopoulou, G.Iannaccone, S.Bhattacharyya, C.N.Chuah, Y.Ganjali, C.Diot, "Characterization of Failures in an Operational IP Backbone Network", in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 16, Issue 4, pp: 749 – 762, Aug. 2008.
2007-
[J5]
Y.Li, A.Markopoulou, N.Bambos, J.Apostolopoulos, "Joint Power-Playout Control for Media Streaming over Wireless Links", in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol.8, Issue 4, pp. 830-843, Aug. 2006.
[J4]
A. Markopoulou, F.Tobagi, M.Karam, "Loss and Delay Measurements of Internet Backbones", in Elsevier Computer Communications (Special Issue on Measurements and Monitoring of IP networks), Vol.29, pp. 1590-1604, June 2006.
[J3]
A. Markopoulou, F. Tobagi, and M. Karam, "Assessing the Quality of Voice Communications over Internet Backbones", in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.11, Issue 5, pp.747-760, Oct. 2003.
[J2]
S.Guha, A.Markopoulou, and F.Tobagi, "Hierarchical Reliable Multicast: Performance Analysis and Placement of Proxies", in Elsevier Computer Communications, 26 (2003), pp. 2070-2081, Oct. 2003.
[J1]
A. Markopoulou and M. Anagnostou, "Optimal grouping of components in a distributed system", in Elsevier Computer Communications, (21) 1998, pp.1452-1461.

Preprints/Under Review

  1. Hulya Seferoglu, Athina Markopoulou, "Network Coding-Aware Queue Management for TCP Flows over Coded Wireless networks", under review and on arXiv:cs.NI:1002.4885.v2, Sept. 2010.
  2. Hulya Seferoglu, Athina Markopoulou, K. K. Ramakrishnan, "Intra- and Inter-Session Network Coding in Wireless Networks", under review and on arXiv:cs.NI:1008.5217v2, Feb. 2012

Peer-Reviewed Conferences

2013

[C46]
Chun Meng, Hulya Seferoglu, Athina Markopoulou, Kenneth W. Shum, Chung Chan, MPC: Multicast Packing for Coding across Multiple Unicasts", in Proc. of NetCod 2013, June 2013. Technical report.
[C45]
Anh Le, Arash Saber Tehrani, Alex Dimakis, and Athina Markopoulou, "Instantly Decodable Network Codes for Real-Time Applications", in Proc. of NetCod 2013, June 2013 (extended version).
[C44]
Pegah Sattari, Maciej Kurant, Animashree Anandkumar, Athina Markopoulou, Michael Rabbat, Active Learning of Multiple Source Multiple Destination Topologies, in Proc. of CISS 2013, March 2013.
[C43]
Blerim Cici, Athina Markopoulou, Enrique Frías-Martínez, Nikolaos Laoutaris, "Quantifying the Potential of Ride-Sharing using Call Description Records", in Proc. of ACM HotMobile 2013.
[C42]
M.Gjoka, M.Kurant, A.Markopoulou, "2.5K-Graphs: from Sampling to Generation", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, March 2013. arxiv version

2012

[C41]
A. Le, L. Keller, C. Fragouli, and A. Markopoulou, “MicroPlay: a Networking Framework for Local Multiplayer Games”, accepted to the 1st SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Gaming (MobiGames), Helsinki, August 2012.
[C40]
Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Yan Wang, Zack W. Almquist, Carter T. Butts, Athina Markopoulou, "Coarse-Grained Topology Estimation via Graph Sampling", accepted to SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'12), Helsinki, August 2012 arXiv:cs.SI:1105.5488.
[C39]
Chun Meng, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Athina Markopoulou, Syed Ali Jafar, "On the Feasibility of Precoding-Based Network Alignment for Three Unicast Sessions", accepted to IEEE ISIT 2012, Boston, MA, July 2012. Long version at arXiv:cs.IT:1202.3405.
[C38]
A. Le and A. Markopoulou, "NC-Audit: Auditing for Network Coding Storage", accepted to the International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod), Cambridge, MA, June 2012. (extended version)
[C37]
L. Keller, A. Le, B. Cici, H. Seferoglu, C. Fragouli, and A. Markopoulou, ”MicroCast: Cooperative Video Streaming on Smartphones,” accepted to MobiSys 2012, Low Wood Bay, Lake District, United Kingdom, Jun 25-29, 2012. (acceptance rate 17.6%) (slides, video demo, poster)

  • Finalist for the Best Paper Award (5 out of 32).
  • Also won first place in the general category of the AMASE competition

[C36]
A. Le and A. Markopoulou, ”On Detecting Pollution Attacks in Inter-Session Network Coding”, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2012, pages 343-351, Orlando, FL, USA, March 25-30, 2012.. (extended version, slides)
[C35]
F. Malandrino, M.Kurant, A. Markopoulou, C.Westphal, U.Kozat, "Proactive Seeding for Information Cascades in Cellular Networks", accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2012.

2011

[C34]
M.Kokkodis, M.Faloutsos, A.Markopoulou, "Network-level characteristics of Spamming: An empirical analysis," in Proc. of ICNP Workshop on Trust and Security in the Future Internet (FIST) 2011, Vancouver, BC Canada, Oct. 2011.
[C33]
H. Seferoglu, A. Markopoulou, M. Medard, "NCAPQ: Network Coding-Aware Priority Queueing for UDP Flows over COPE," to appear in Proc. of NetCod 2011, pp. 68-75, Beijing, China, July 25-27, 2011.
[C32]
A. Le, A. Markopoulou, "TESLA-Based Defense Against Pollution Attacks in P2P Systems with Network Coding," in Proc. of NetCod 2011, pp. 61-67, Beijing, China, July 25-27, 2011. (slides)
[C31]
P. Sattari, A. Markopoulou, C. Fragouli, "Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Multiple-Source Loss Tomography with Network Coding," in Proc. of the International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod'11), pp. 5-11, Beijing, China, July 25-27, 2011.
[C30]
Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Carter Butts, Athina Markopoulou, "Walking on a Graph with a Magnifying Glass: Stratified Sampling via Weighted Random Walks", in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS, San Jose, CA, June 2011. Also on arxiv:1101.5463.
[C29]
H. Seferoglu, A. Markopoulou, K. K. Ramakrishnan, "I2NC: Inter- and Intra- Session Network Coding", in IEEE INFOCOM 2011. Here is technical report and the slides.

[C28]
A. Le, A. Markopoulou, M. Faloutsos, "PhishDef: URL Names Say It All", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2011 mini-conference, pp. 191-195, Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011 (arXiv version, poster, slides)

2010

[C27]
M. Kurant, A. Markopoulou, P. Thiran, "On the bias of BFS (Breadth-First-Search) Sampling", in Proc. of ITC'22, Sept. 7-9, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
[C26]
A. Das, S. Vishwanath, S. Jafar, A. Markopoulou, "Network Coding for Multiple Unicasts: An Interference Alignment Approach", in Proc. of ISIT 2010, June 2010, Austin, TX.

  • Finalist for the ISIT 2010 Best Paper Award.

[C25]
A.Le, A.Markopoulou, "Locating Byzantine Attackers using SpaceMac", in Proc. of NetCod 2010, Toronto, Canada, June 2010. (slides)
[C24]
P.Sattari, M.Gjoka, A.Markopoulou, "A Network Coding Approach to Traceback", in Proc. of NetCod 2010, Toronto, Canada, June 2010. (slides)
[C23]
F.Soldo, A.Markopoulou, A. Lopez-Toledo, "A Simple Optimization Model for Wireless Opportunistic Routing with Intra-session Network Coding", in Proc. of NetCod 2010, Toronto, Canada, June 2010. (slides)
[C22]
H.Seferoglu, A.Markopoulou, "Network Coding-Aware Queue Management for Unicast Flows over Coded Wireless Networks", in Proc. of NetCod 2010, Toronto, Canada, June 2010. (slides)
[C21]
H.Seferoglu, A.Markopoulou, "Delay-Optimized Network Coding for Video Streaming over Wireless Networks", in Proc. of ICC 2010, South Africa, May 2010.
[C20]
F.Soldo, A.Le, A.Markopoulou, "Predictive Blacklisting as an Implicit Recommendation system", in IEEE INFOCOM 2010, April 2011, San Diego, CA.

[C19]
M.Gjoka, M.Kurant, C.Butts, A.Markopoulou, "A Walk in Facebook: a Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of Facebook", in IEEE INFOCOM 2010, April 2011, San Diego, CA. (arXiv version)

2009

[C18]
P.Sattari, A.Markopoulou, C.Fragouli, "Multiple Source Multiple Destination Topology Inference using Network Coding", in Proc. of NetCod 2009, EPFL, Lausanne, June 2009. (slides)
[C17]
H.Seferoglu, A.Markopoulou, U.Kozat, "Network coding-aware rate control and scheduling in wireless networks", in Proc. ICME 2009, Special Session on “Network Coding for Multimedia Streaming”, June 2009.
[C16]
H.Seferoglu, A.Markopoulou, "Distributed Rate Control for Video Streaming over Wireless Networks with Intersession Network Coding", in Proc. of Packet Video 2009, Seattle, May 2009. (slides)
[C15]
X. Yang, M. Gjoka, P. Chhabra, A. Markopoulou, P. Rodriguez, "Kangaroo: Video Seeking in P2P Systems", in Proc. of USENIX IPTPS, Boston, April 2009. (slides)
[C14]
F. Soldo, A. Markopoulou, K. Argyraki, "Optimal Filtering of Source Address Prefixes: Models and Algorithms", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2009. (Tech.Report) (slides)

2008

[C13]
M.Gjoka, M.Sirivianos, A.Markopoulou, X.Yang, "Poking Facebook: Characterization of OSN Applications", in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Aug. 2008. (slides)

2007

[C12]
H.Seferoglu, A.Markopoulou,"Opportunistic Network Coding for Video Streaming over Wireless", in Proc. of Packet Video 2007, EPFL, Lausanne, Nov. 2007. (slides)
[C11]
M.Gjoka, C.Fragouli, P.Sattari, A.Markopoulou, "Loss Tomography in General Topologies with Network Coding", in Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2007.
[C10]
C. Fragouli, D. Katabi, S. Katti, A. Markopoulou, M. Medard, H. Rahul, "Wireless Network Coding: Opportunities and Challenges", in Proc. of MILCOM, Oct. 2007.
[C9]
K.El Defrawy, M.Gjoka, A.Markopoulou, "Bottorrent: Misusing BitTorrent to Launch DDoS Attacks", in Usenix SRUTI, Santa Clara, June 2007.

  • Press: here is a discussion on our work on Slashdot.

2006-

[C8]
Y.Li, J. Apostolopoulos, A.Markopoulou, N.Bambos, "Packet Transmission and Content-Dependent Playout for Video Streaming over Wireless Networks", in Proc. of IEEE MMSP'05, special session on Content-Aware Media Delivery.
[C7]
A.Markopoulou, Y. Li, C. Chan, N. Bambos, "Energy-Efficient Communication in Battery-Constrained Portable Devices", in Proc. of IEEE 2nd Int. Conference on Broadband Networks, Wireless Symposium, pp:441 - 450, Oct. 3-7, 2005.
[C6]
Y.Li, A. Markopoulou, N.Bambos, and J.Apostolopoulos, "Joint Power/Playout Control Schemes for Media Streaming over Wireless Links", in Proc. of IEEE Packet Video Workshop 2004, Dec. 2004, Irvine, CA. (Abstract)
[C5]
A. Markopoulou, E.Setton, M.Kalman, and J.Apostolopoulos, "WiSE Video: Improving Rate-Controlled Video Streaming using in-band Wireless Loss Notification", in Proc. IEEE ICME 2004, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2004. (Abstract, slides, poster, Video Demo(avi))
[C4]
A. Markopoulou, G.Iannaccone, S.Bhattacharyya, C.N.Chuah, and C.Diot, "Characterization of Failures in an IP Backbone Network", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2004, March 2004, Hong Kong. (slides)
[C3]
A.Markopoulou, F.Tobagi, M.Karam, "Assessment of VoIP quality over Internet backbones", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2002, New York, June 2002. (slides).

  • The paper was one of the 8 best papers

[C2]
A.Markopoulou and B.Subbiah, "Dynamic traffic conditioning for DiffServ domain using feedback and topology techniques", in Proc. of IC' 2000, Arizona, June 2000.
[C1]
A. Markopoulou and F.Tobagi, "Performance analysis of Hiererchical Reliable Multicast", in Proc. of ACM NGC 2000, Nov.2000, Stanford.

Invited Conference Papers (with Proceedings)

[I10]
H.Seferoglu, L.Keller, B.Cici, A.Le, A. Markopoulou, "Cooperative Video Streaming on Smartphones", in Allerton Conference 2011 (invited paper), Sept. 2011, Monticello, IL. Here are the slides. And here are the demos on the benefits of cooperation, and exploiting overhearing, accompanying this talk.
[I9]
A. Ramakrishnan, A. Das, H. Maleki, A. Markopoulou, S. Jafar, S. Vishwanath, "Network Coding for Three Unicast Sessions: Interference Alignment Approaches", in Allerton Conference 2010 (invited paper), Sept. 2010, Monticello, IL. (slides)
[I8]
F.Soldo, K.El Defrawy, A.Markopoulou, B.Krishnamurthy, K.van der Merwe, "Filtering Sources of Unwanted Traffic", in ITA Workshop '08, San Diego, CA, Jan.2008. (slides)
[I7]
K.El Defrawy, A. Markopoulou, K.Argyraki, "Optimal allocation of Filters against DDoS Attacks", in Proc. of ITA Workshop '07, UCSD, Jan. 2007.
[I6]
C.Fragouli, A.Markopoulou, R.Srivanasan, S.Diggavi, "Network Monitoring: It Depends on your Points of View", in Proc. of ITA Workshop'07, UCSD, Jan. 2007.
[I5]
C.Fragouli, A.Markopoulou, S.Diggavi, "Topology Inference using Network Coding Techniques", in the Proc. of the Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL, Sept. 2006.
[I4]
C.Fragouli, A.Markopoulou, "A Network Coding approach to Overlay Network Monitoring", in Proc. 43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2005
[I3]
A.Abbas and A. Markopoulou, "A Bayesian-Max Entropy Approach to Subjective Voice Quality Testing", in Proc. of AIP 23rd Maximum Entropy Workshop, Jackson Hole, WY, August 2003.
[I2]
F. Tobagi, A. Markopoulou and M. Karam, "Is the Internet ready for VoIP?", in Proc. of IWDC 2002, pp.49-57, Sept. 2002, Capri, Italy.
[I1]
F.Tobagi, W.Noureddine, B.Chen, A.Markopoulou, M.Karam, C.Fraleigh, J.M.Pulido, J.I.Kimura, "Service Differentiation in the Internet to support Multimedia Traffic", in Proc. of IWDC 2001 and published by Springer Verlang LNCS, Vol. 2170, p.381, 2001.

Technical Reports

[TR1]
A. Markopoulou, D. Cheriton, "The Case for Redundant Arrays of Internet Links (RAIL)", Technical Report arXiV:cs.NI/0701133, arXiv.org, Jan. 2007.

Posters/Short Papers

[S6]
L. Keller, A. Le, B. Cici, H. Seferoglu, C. Fragouli, A. Markopoulou, ”MicroCast: Cooperative Video Streaming on Smartphones,” Demo at The International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications 2012 (HotMobile 2012), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 28-29, 2012.
[S5]
P. Sattari, A. Markopoulou, "Algebraic Traceback Meets Network Coding," in Proc. of NetCod 2011 (Poster Session), pp. 253-259, Beijing, China, July 25-27, 2011.
[S4]
B. Cici, F. Malandrino, M. Gjoka, M. Kurant, A. Markopoulou, “Online Social Networks meet Smartphones,” poster at the Calit2 anniversary, UC Irvine, Fall 2010.
[S3]
A.Markopoulou, H.Seferoglu, "Network Coding Meets Multimedia: Opportunities and Challenges", IEEE MMTC E-Letter, Vol.4, No.1, pp.12-15, Feb.2009.
[S2]
C.Fragouli, A.Markopoulou, "Network Coding Techniques for Network Monitoring: A Brief Introduction", in IEEE International Zurich Seminar (IZS) on Communications, ETH, Zurich, Feb.22-24 2006, pp.82-83.
[S1]
A. Markopoulou, N. Bambos, "Optimizing Timeout-Based Sleep Algorithms", appeared in the WIP session of IPSN 2005.