Alan Mislove

Alan Mislove

Address: Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Campus E1 4 66123 Saarbrücken Germany

Office: 628, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Building E1 4)

Phone: +49 681 932 5696

Email: amislove (at) mpi-sws (dot) mpg (dot) de

I am currently a sixth-year graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and at Rice University in the Computer Science Department. I am advised by Peter Druschel and Krishna Gummadi. In the summer of 2005, I was an intern at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, working with Antony Rowstron and Miguel Castro. In the fall of 2005, I moved with Peter Druschel to found the new Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, in Saarbrücken, Germany.

My research interests currently lie is the area of social networks, distributed systems, and network measurement tools.

Projects

Online Social Networks
Studying the structure, growth, and applications of online social networks.
[Paper] [Homepage]

PeerSpective
Exploting the shared interest in social networks to enhance Web search.
[Paper] [Homepage]
Ostra
Leveraging the trust in social networks to thrwart unwanted communication.
[Paper]

ISP Transparency
Providing end-users with tools to detect ISP traffic shaping and misbehavior.
[Homepage]
ePOST
A completely decentralized email system, providing a challenging proving ground for p2p systems.
[Paper] [Homepage]

FreePastry
An open-source implementation of the Pastry protocol.
[Homepage]

Refereed Publications

Detecting BitTorrent Blocking
Marcel Dischinger, Alan Mislove, Andreas Haeberlen, and Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'08), Vouliagmeni, Greece, October 2008. To appear.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Growth of the Flickr Social Network
Alan Mislove, Hema Swetha Koppula, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, and Bobby Bhattacharjee
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, WA, August 2008.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Measurement Data]
Characterizing Social Cascades in Flickr
Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, Ben Adams, and Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, WA, August 2008.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Ostra: Leveraging trust to thwart unwanted communication
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'08), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)]
Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks
Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, and Bobby Bhattacharjee
In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'07), San Diego, CA, October 2007.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Measurement Data]
Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search
Alan Mislove, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets'06), Irvine, CA, November 2006.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Software]
Experiences in building and operating ePOST, a reliable peer-to-peer application
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Andreas Haeberlen, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the European Professional Society for Systems (EuroSys'06), Leuven, Belgium, April 2006.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Software]
Fallacies in evaluating decentralized systems
Andreas Haeberlen, Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'06), Santa Barbara, CA, February, 2006.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Glacier: Highly durable, decentralized storage despite massive correlated failures
Andreas Haeberlen, Alan Mislove, and Peter Druschel.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'05), Boston, MA, May 2005.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Software]
Sharing micronews with peer-to-peer event notification
Dan Sandler, Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'05), Ithaca, NY, Feburary 2005.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Software]
AP3: Cooperative, decentralized anonymous communication
Alan Mislove, Gaurav Oberoi, Ansley Post, Peter Druschel, and Dan S. Wallach
In Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop (SIGOPS-EW'04), Leuven, Belgium, September 2004.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Providing Administrative Control and Autonomy in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
Alan Mislove and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'04), San Diego, CA, Feburary 2004.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Software]
POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Charles Reis, Paul Willmann, Peter Druschel, Dan S. Wallach, Xavier Bonnaire, Pierre Sens, Jean-Michel Busca, and Luicana Arantes-Bezerra
In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS'03), Lihue, HI, May 2003.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Software]

Theses, Book Chapters, and other Non-Refereed Publications

Consistent Key Mapping in Structured Overlays
Andreas Haeberlen, Jeff Hoye, Alan Mislove, and Peter Druschel
Technical Report TR05-456, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, August 2005.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
ePOST
Alan Mislove, Andreas Haeberlen, Ansley Post, and Peter Druschel
Chapter in Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, LNCS 3485, Spring-Verlag Publishers, Heidelberg. Ralf Steinmetz and Klaus Wehrle, Eds. August 2005.
[Book] [Homepage] [Software]
POST: A Decentralized Platform for Reliable Collaborative Applications
Master of Science Thesis, Rice University, December 2004. Advised by Peter Druschel.
[PDF] [BibTeX]

Talk Slides

Growth of the Flickr Social Network
At the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, WA, August 2008.
[Slides (PDF)]
Ostra: Leveraging Trust to Thrwart Unwanted Communication
At the 5th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'08), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
[Slides (PDF)]
Structure and Growth of Online Social Networks
At the Microsoft Research Workshop on Online Social Networks, Cambridge, UK, December 2007.
[Slides (PDF)]
Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks
At the 5th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'07), San Diego, CA, October 2007.
[Slides (PDF)]
Ostra: Leveraging Trust To Thrwart Unwanted Communication (work-in-progress)
At the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'07), Stevenson, WA, October 2007.
[Slides (PDF)]
Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search
At the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets'06), Irvine, CA, November 2006.
[Slides (PDF)]
Experiences in building and operating ePOST, a reliable peer-to-peer application
At the 1st Conference of the European Professional Society for Systems (EuroSys'06), Leuven, Belgium, April 2006.
[Slides (PDF)]
Providing Administrative Control and Autonomy in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
At the 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'04), San Diego, CA, Feburary 2004.
[Slides (PDF)]
POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System
At the 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS'03), Lihue, HI, May 2003.
[Slides (PDF)]

Press

Coverage of the PeerSpective project has appeared in New Scientist and MIT Technology Review (Germany).
Articles on our Glasnost ISP transparency project have appeared in the New York Times, PC World, the Washington Times, and Ars Technica.
I was quoted in a New Scientist article concerning false Facebook profiles.

Vita

My C.V. is available for download in PDF format.

Address:	`Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Campus E1 4 66123 Saarbrücken Germany`
Office:	`628, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Building E1 4)`
Phone:	`+49 681 932 5696`
Email:	`amislove (at) mpi-sws (dot) mpg (dot) de`