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Dec 2024

A paper titled "PeNCache: Popularity based Cooperative Caching in Named Data Networks" has been accepted in Computer Networks Journal

Dec 2024

A paper titled "Web Attack Detection Performance Improvement with Extended Berkeley Packet Filtering" has been accepted in 12th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2025)

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Email: neminath@iiti.ac.in

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Indore

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Journal Papers

  1. Pankaj Chaudhary and Neminath Hubballi, "PeNCache: Popularity based Cooperative Caching in Named Data Networks", Computer Networks, Elsevier (To Appear)
  2. Purna Kukadiya, Trapti Jain and Neminath Hubballi, "Reducing the Impact of DoS Attacks on Static and Dynamic SE Using a Deep Learning Approach", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol 20, Issue 10, pp 11644-11654, 2024
  3. Pratibha Khandait and Neminath Hubballi , "HClass: Hybrid Network Traffic Classification with Bit and Keyword Level Signatures", Journal of High Speed Networks (JHSN), Vol 30, Issue 4, pp 517-533, 2024
  4. Nisha Kumari Barsha and Neminath Hubballi , "Anomaly Detection in SCADA Systems: A State Transition Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM, Vol 21, pp 3511-3521, 2024
  5. Pankaj Chaudhary, Neminath Hubballi and Sameer G. Kulkarni, "eNCache: Improving Content Delivery with Cooperative Caching in Named Data Networking", Computer Networks (Elsevier), Vol 237, Issue 12, pp 1-16, 2023
  6. Shaurya Sood and Neminath Hubballi, "SlowTrack: Detecting Slow Rate Denial of Service Attacks Against HTTP with Behavioral Parameters", The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol 80, pp 1788–1817, 2024
  7. Namrata Tiwari and Neminath Hubballi, "Secure Socket Shell Bruteforce Attack Detection with Petri Net Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol 20, pp 697-710, 2023
  8. Neminath Hubballi and Pratibha Khandait, "KeyClass: Efficient Keyword Matching for Network Traffic Classification", Computer Communications, (Elsevier), Vol 185, pp 79-91, 2022
  9. Umar Aalam, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar and Neminath Hubballi, “mMIG: Inversion optimization in majority inverter graph with minority operations", Integration (Elsevier), Vol 81, pp 195-210, 2021
  10. Nikhil Tripathi and Neminath Hubballi , “Application Layer Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks and Defense Mechanisms: A Survey”, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 54, pp 1–33, 2021
  11. Nikhil Tripathi and Neminath Hubballi ,"Preventing Clock Synchronization in NTP Broadcast Mode", Computers & Security Journal (Elsevier), Vol 102, pp 1-16, 2021,
  12. Pratibha Khandait, Neminath Hubballi and Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, "IoTHunter: IoT Network Traffic Classification Using Device Specific Keywords", IET Networks, Vol 12, pp 59-76, 2021
  13. Neminath Hubballi, Mayank Swarnkar and Mauro Conti, "BitProb: Probabilistic Bit Signatures for Accurate Application Identification", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE, Vol 17(3), 2020
  14. Anuja Tayal, Neha Sharma, Neminath Hubballi and Maitreya Natu, "Traffic Dynamics-Aware Probe Selection for Fault Detection in Networks", Jounral of Network and System Management, Springer, Vol 28(4), PP 1055-1084, 2020
  15. Mayank Swarnkar and Neminath Hubballi, "SpamDetector: Detecting Spam Callers in VoIP with Graph Anomalies", Security & Privacy, John Wiley & Sons, Vol 2(1), PP 1-16, Wiley 2019
  16. Neminath Hubballi and Mayank Swarnkar, "BitCoding : Network Traffic Classification through Encoded Bit Level Signatures", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 26(3), PP 2334-2346, IEEE, 2018
  17. Neminath Hubballi and Jonathan Santini, "Detecting TCP ACK Storm Attack: A State Transition Modeling Approach", IET Networks Vol 7(6), PP 429-434, IET, 2018
  18. Mayank Swarnkar and Neminath Hubballi, "RDClass: On Using Relative Distance of Keywords for Accurate Network Traffic Classification", IET Networks, Vol 7(4), PP 273-279, IET, 2018
  19. Nikhil Tripathi and Neminath Hubballi, "Detecting Stealth DHCP Starvation Attack Using Machine Learning Approach", Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, Vol 14(3), PP 233-244, Springer, 2018
  20. Nikhil Tripathi and Neminath Hubballi, "Slow Rate Denial of Service Attacks Against HTTP/2 and Detection", Computers & Security, Vol 72(C), PP 255-272, Elsevier, 2018 Click here
  21. Neminath Hubballi and Nikhil Tripathi, "An Event based Technique for Detecting Spoofed IP Packets", Journal of Information Security and Applications, Vol 35(C), PP 32-43, Elsevier, 2017 Click here
  22. Diksha Golait and Neminath Hubballi, "Detecting Anomalous Behaviour in VoIP Systems: A Discrete Event System Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Information and Forensic Security, Vol 12(3), PP 730-745, IEEE, 2017 Click here
  23. Neminath Hubballi and Nikhil Tripathi, "A Closer Look into DHCP Starvation Attack in Wireless Networks",Computers & Security, Vol 65(C), PP 387-404, Elsevier, 2017 Click here
  24. Mayank Swarnkar and Neminath Hubballi, "OCPAD: One Class Naive Bayes Classifier for Payload based Anomaly Detection",Expert Systems with Applications, Vol 64(1), PP 330-339, Elsevier, 2016 Click here
  25. Neminath Hubballi and Vinoth Suryanarayanan. "False Alarm Minimization Techniques in Signature-Based Intrusion Detection Systems: A Survey" doi Computer Communications, Vol 49(1), Elsevier, 2014 Dowload Preprint Here
  26. Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi. "Towards Reducing False Alarms in Network Intrusion Detection Systems with Data Summarization Technique" Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Vol 6(3), Wiley Interscience, 2013
  27. Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi. "Network Specific False Alarm Reduction in Intrusion Detection" Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Vol 4(11), Wiley Interscience, 2011
  28. Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas, Roopa S, Ritesh R, Sukumar Nandi. "LAN Attack Detection using Discrete Event Systems" ISA Transactions, Vol 50(1), Elseviewer, 2011 doi Dowload Preprint Here

Conference Papers

  1. Pankaj Chaudhary and Neminath Hubballi, "EeNCache: Neighborhood Cooperative Content Caching and Delivery in Named Data Networks", 12th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2025), USA (To Appear)
  2. Neminath Hubballi and Pratibha Khandait, "Web Attack Detection Performance Improvement with Extended Berkeley Packet Filtering", 12th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2025), USA (To Appear)
  3. Pragya Shrivastava, Neminath Hubballi , and Himanshu Agrawal, "Implication of Cyber Attacks in Smart-Grid Auction: A Performance Evaluation Case Study”, IEEE Middle East Conference on Communications and Networking (MECOM 2024), Abu Dhabi, UAE 2024
  4. Himanshu Agrawal, Yifei Ren, Nasim Ferdosian, Sourav Dutta, Goutam Das, Reza Nejabati, Vidyasagar Potdar, and Neminath Hubballi, "A Framework for Future Net Zero and Sustainable Network Architecture”, IEEE Middle East Conference on Communications and Networking (MECOM 2024), Abu Dhabi, UAE 2024
  5. Purna Kukadiya, Trapti Jain and Neminath Hubballi , "Weibull Distribution based False Data Injection Attack Detection", 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)
  6. Neminath Hubballi and Nisha Kumari Barsha, "Mitigating Resource Depletion and Message Sequencing Attacks in SCADA Systems", The 38th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2024)
  7. Neminath Hubballi and Pankaj Chaudhary, "CPCache: Cooperative Popularity based Caching for Named Data Networks", 38th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2024)
  8. Neminath Hubballi, Pankaj Chaudhary, and Sameer Kulkarni, "PePC: Popularity based Early Predictive Caching in Named Data Networks”, 24th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2024)
  9. Nisha Kumari Barsha and Neminath Hubballi, "Detecting Cyber Attacks in Smart-Grid Networks with Probability Distribution Comparison”, 24th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2024)
  10. Neminath Hubballi , Yogendra Singh, Dipin Garg, "XSSMitigate: Deep Packet Inspection based XSS Attack Quarantine in Software Defined Networks", 41st IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2023), pp 1-6
  11. Pankaj Chaudhary, Neminath Hubballi and Sameer Kulkarni, "NCache: Neighborhood Cooperative Caching in Named Data Networking", 5th International Conference on Hot Topics in Information Centric Networking (HoTICN 2022), pp. 36-41
  12. Neminath Hubballi and Kanishk Patel,"WiP: Control Plane Saturation Attack Mitigation in Software Defined Networks", 18th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2022), pp 235–246
  13. Aniket Sangwan, Sarthak Jain and Neminath Hubballi, "WiP: EventTracker-Event Driven Evidence Collection for Digital Forensics", 18th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2022), pp 247–259
  14. Shaurya Sood, Pritesh Palod and Neminath Hubballi,"WiP: Characterizing the Impact of Multiplexed DoS Attacks on HTTP and Detection", 18th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2022), IIT Tirupati, pp 260–271
  15. Shaurya Sood, Manash Saikia and Neminath Hubballi, “WiP: Slow Rate HTTP Attack Detection with Behavioral Parameters”, 17th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2021), IIT Patna, India, pp 26-37, 2021
  16. Neminath Hubballi, “Controlling Probe Frequency with Network Traffic Dynamics: An Experience Report”, 4th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom'21), Novi Sad, Serbia, 2021
  17. Amit Meena, Neminath Hubball , Yogendra Singh, Vimal Bhatia, Katrin Franke, "Network Security Systems Log Analysis for Trends and Insights: A Case Study", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems, (ANTS 2020), IIIT Delhi, India
  18. Neminath Hubballi , Namrata Tiwari and Pratibha Khandait, “Distributed SSH Bruteforce Attack Detection with Flow Content Similarity and Login Failure Reputation”, 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2020 Posters), Taipei, Taiwan
  19. Pratibha Khandait, Neminath Hubballi and Katrin Franke, “Towards Automating Detection of Anomalous HTTP Requests with Joint Probability Estimation of Characters”, 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2020 Posters), Taipei, Taiwan
  20. Pratibha Khandait, Neminath Hubballi and Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, "Efficient Keyword Matching for Deep Packet Inspection based Network Traffic Classification", 12th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2020), Bangalore, India
  21. Vinti Agarwal, Neminath Hubballi, Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar and Katrin Franke, "Identifying Anomalous HTTP Traffic with Association Rule Mining", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2019), Goa, India
  22. Mayank Swarnkar, Neminath Hubballi, Nikhil Tripathi and Mauro Conti, "AppHunter: Mobile Application Traffic Classification", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2018) Indore, India
  23. Anuja Tayal, Neminath Hubballi, Maitreya Natu and Vaishali Sadaphal, "Congestion-Aware Probe Selection for Fault Detection in Networks", 10th International Conference on Communications Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2018), Bangalore, India
  24. Anuja Tayal, Neminath Hubballi and Nikhil Tripathi, "Communication Recurrence and Similarity Detection in Network Flows", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications System (ANTS 2017)
  25. Himsnshu Dogra, Sudhakar Verma, Neminath Hubballi and Mayank Swarnkar, "Security Service Level Agreements in Cloud: A Proof of Concept Implementation", Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2017)
  26. Nikhil Tripathi, Mayank Swarnkar and Neminath Hubballi, "DNS Spoofing in Local Networks Made Easy", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications System (ANTS 2017)
  27. Neminath Hubballi and Mayank Swarnkar, "BitCoding : Protocol Type Agnostic Robust Bit Level Signatures for Traffic Classification", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017)
  28. Nikhil Tripathi and Neminath Hubballi, "A Probabilistic Anomaly Detection Scheme to Detect DHCP Starvation Attack", Tenth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2016), Bangalore, India
  29. Sainath Batthala, Neminath Hubballi, Maitreya Natu and Vaishali Sadaphal "Answering If- What Questions to Manage Batch Systems",22nd annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2015), Bangalore, India
  30. Nikhil Tripathi and Neminath Hubballi, "Exploiting DHCP Server-side IP Address Conflict Detection: A DHCP Starvation Attack", Ningth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2015), Kolkata, India ( Honourable mention in conference )
  31. Mayank Swarnkar and Neminath Hubballi, "Rangegram: A Novel Payload based Anomaly Detection Technique Against Web Traffic", Ningth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2015), Kolkata, India
  32. Neminath Hubballi and Vinoth Suryanarayanan, "Application Workload Pattern and Its Implications for Resource Provisioning in Cloud: An Early Experience", 35th IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON 2014), Bangkok, Thailand
  33. Neminath Hubballi, Deepanshu Goyal, "FlowSummary: Summarizing Network Flows for Communication Periodicity Detection", 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2013) Calcuta, India Download Preprint Here
  34. Neminath Hubballi. "Pairgram: Modeling Frequency Information of Lookahead Pairs for System Call based Anomaly Detection", 4th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2012) , Bangalore, India Download Preprint Here
  35. Firdos Barbujiya, Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi. "Completeness of LAN Attack Detection Using Discrete Event Systems", 4th International Conference on Network Security and Applications (CNSA 2011), Chennai, India.
  36. Neminath Hubballi, Bidyut Patra, Sukumar Nandi. "NDoT: Nearest Neighbor Distance Based Outlier Detection Technique", 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2011) Moscow Russia
  37. Firdos. Barbujiya, Santosh Biswas, Neminath Hubballi, Sukumar Nandi "A Host Based DES Approach for Detecting ARP Spoofing", IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Cyber Security (CICS 2011), London, England
  38. Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas, Sukumar Nandi "Sequencegram: n-gram Modeling of System Calls for Program based Anomaly Detection", 3rd International Conference on Communications Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011), Bangalore, India Download Preprint Here
  39. Roopa. S, Ritesh. R, Neminath Hubballi, Firdos. Barbujiya, Santosh Biswas, Sukumar Nandi, Arijit Sur, Vivek Ramachandran, "An Active Host-based Detection Mechanism for LAN Attacks", 2nd International Conference on Networks & Communications (NetCoM 2010),Chennai India,
  40. Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas, Roopa S, Ritesh R, Sukumar Nandi, "A Discrete Event System Approach to Intrusion Detection System for LAN Attacks", 18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2010), Marrakech, Morocco.
  41. Bidyut Kumar Patra, Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi. "A Fast Distance Based Hierarchical Clustering Method for Large Datasets", 7th International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2010) Warsaw, Poland Download Preprint Here
  42. Neminath Hubballi, Roopa S, Ritesh R, F Barbujiya, Santosh Biswas, Sukumar Nandi, Arijit Sur, Vivek Ramachandran "An Active Intrusion Detection for LAN Specific Attacks" 4th International Conference on Information Security and Assurance(ISA 2010). Miyazaki, Japan Download Preprint Here
  43. Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi. "Fuzzy Mega Cluster Based Anomaly Network Intrusion Detection", Network and Service Security (N2S) 2009, Parris, France.
  44. Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi. "An Efficient Data Structure for Storing Network Intrusion Detection Dataset". 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS 2008), IIT Bombay, India.

National Conference Papers

  1. Diksha Golait and Neminath Hubballi, ``VoIPFD: Voice Over IP Flooding Detection", 22nd National Conference on Communication (NCC 2016), IIT Guwahati, India To Appear
  2. Jayeeta Dutta, Neha Kataria and Neminath Hubballi, "Network Traffic Classification in Encrypted Environment: A Case Study of Google Hangout" 21st National Conference on Communication (NCC 2015), IIT Bombay, India. Download Preprint Here

Workshop Papers

  1. Pratibha Khandait, Namrata Tiwari and Neminath Hubballi, "Who is Trying to Compromise Your SSH Server ? An Analysis of Authentication Logs and Detection of Bruteforce Attacks", The 4th International Workshop On Networking Women In Distributed Computing And Networks (NWDCN 2021) held along with ICDCN 2021
  2. Neminath Hubballi, Amey Kiran Patel, Amit Kumar Meena and Nikhil Tripathi, "Cloud Security Service Level Agreements: Representation and Measurement", First International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCN 2019), Held along with INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France
  3. Sainath Bhattala, Mayank Swarnkar, Neminath Hubballi and Maitreya Natu, "VoIP Profiler: Profiling Voice Over IP Communication for User Classification”, The 11th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2016) held along with ARES 2016
  4. Neminath Hubballi and Nikhil Tripathi,"How Secure are Web Servers? An Empirical Study of Slow HTTP DoS Attacks and Detection",The 3rd International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2016) held along with ARES 2016
  5. Neminath Hubballi and Himanshu Dogra,"Detecting Packed Executable File: A Comparison of Supervised and Anomaly Detection", The 1st International Workshop on Malware Analysis (WMA 2016) held along with ARES 2016
  6. Sri Yogesh Dorbala, Kishore R and Neminath Hubballi,"An Experience Report on Scalable Implementation of DDoS Attack Detection" Fifth International Workshop on Information Systems Security (WISSE 2015) held with 27th CAiSE'15
  7. Neminath Hubballi, Santosh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi. "Layered Higher Order n-grams for Hardening Payload Based Anomaly Intrusion Detecton", workshop on Frontiers of Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2010), held along with ARES 2010

Book Chapters

  1. Neminath Hubballi and Deepanshu Goyal, "Discovering Periodicity in Network Flows for Security Monitoring" Handbook of Research on Modern Cryptographic Solutions for Computer and Cyber Security 2015
  2. Neminath Hubballi and Rajeshwari Ganeshan, "Privacy Issues in Big Data" in Big Data Spectrum Infosys Lab Jan 2012

Fast Abstracts

  1. Sainath Batthala, Neminath Hubballi, Maitreya Natu and Vaishali Sadaphal, "If-What Analysis to Manage Batch Systems", Ph.D Forum Presentation, COMSNETS 2016
  2. Santonu Sarkar, Neminath Hubballi, "Fraud Detection in a Mobile Wallet System", Fast Abstract, 42nd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012), Boston, USA
  3. Neminath Hubballi, "False Alarm Minimization in IDS: Open Issues", Fast Abstract, 42nd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012), Boston, USA
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