Alberto Dainotti

About

Alberto Dainotti is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. His research is at the intersection of Internet measurement, data science, and cybersecurity. He is interested in understanding when and how Internet infrastructure can fail and proposing remedies. To this end, he develops methods and builds near-real-time streaming data analytics systems such as IODA, BGPStream, and GRIP that combine diverse data to monitor and improve Internet infrastructure security and reliability. Additionally, he is interested in understanding the political motivations and implications of Internet cybersecurity events and phenomena, which led him to start a series of small workshops on Internet Measurement and Political Science in 2014. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was an Associate Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at CAIDA, the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Systems from the University of Napoli 'Federico II' in Italy in 2008.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Computer Security
• Data Mining
• World Wide Web
• Business
• Cartography
• Data science
• Geography

Selected publications

• A multi-perspective view of Internet censorship in Myanmar

  2021-08-18 · 33 citations

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  In the wake of a military coup in February 2021, Myanmar experienced unprecedented levels of Internet censorship. Beginning with haphazard blocking of social media and intermittent Internet connectivity outages, controls proceeded to stricter blocking of websites, the shutdown of cellular data in several networks, and nearly complete disconnection from the Internet every night. In this study, we use diverse datasets and measurement methods to offer a holistic view into the censorship events in M…

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• To Filter or Not to Filter: Measuring the Benefits of Registering in the RPKI Today

  Lecture notes in computer science · 2020-01-01 · 32 citations

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• DynamIPs

  2020-11-23 · 30 citations

  articleSenior author

  IP addresses are commonly used to identify hosts or properties of hosts. The address assigned to a host may change, however, and the extent to which these changes occur in time as well as in the address space is currently unknown, especially in IPv6.

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• Destination Unreachable: Characterizing Internet Outages and Shutdowns

  2023-09-01 · 22 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive longitudinal analysis of government-ordered Internet shutdowns and spontaneous outages (i.e., disruptions not ordered by the government). We describe the available tools, data sources and methods to identify and analyze Internet shutdowns. We then merge manually curated datasets on known government-ordered shutdowns and large-scale Internet outages, further augmenting them with data on real-world events, macroeconomic and sociopolitical indicator…

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• Investigating the impact of DDoS attacks on DNS infrastructure

  2022-10-21 · 22 citations

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  Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks both abuse and target core Internet infrastructures and services, including the Domain Name System (DNS). To characterize recent DDoS attacks against authoritative DNS infrastructure, we join two existing data sets - DoS activity inferred from a sizable darknet, and contemporaneous DNS measurement data - for a 17-month period (Nov. 20 - Mar. 22). Our measurements reveal evidence that millions of domains (up to 5% of the DNS namespace) experienced a DoS attack dur…

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Recent grants

• TWC: TTP Option: Small: Collaborative: Detecting and Characterizing Internet Traffic Interception Based on BGP Hijacking

  NSF · $587k · 2014–2019

• EAGER:Experimental Deployment of the ARTEMIS BGP Hijacking Detection Prototype in Research and Educational Networks

  NSF · $185k · 2018–2019

• TTP: Medium: Detection and Analysis of Large-Scale Internet Infrastructure Outages

  NSF · $1.5M · 2012–2016

Frequent coauthors

• Antonio Pescapè

  38 shared

• kc claffy

  UC San Diego Health System

  27 shared

• Alistair King

  24 shared

• Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

  University of Crete

  16 shared

• Giorgio Ventre

  University of Naples Federico II

  13 shared

• Karyn Benson

  13 shared

• Mattijs Jonker

  University of Twente

  11 shared

• Walter de Donato

  10 shared

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