Ashvin Goel

Research Interests

My research interests span the areas of operating systems, security, networks and mobile systems. Currently, my research group is exploring the design of systems and tools that allow analysis when computer systems are compromised or misconfigured. We are developing a computer forensic system that allows capture, analysis, reconstruction and replay of system activities. Our system helps determine the extent of damage to compromised machines, enables recovery from intrusions, and helps harden systems against future intrusions. The data collected by our system can also help with detecting bugs in software and troubleshooting problems related to system configuration. I am also working on a network infrastructure that is specifically designed for mobile computing applications.

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2006

Fareha Shafique, Kenneth Po, Ashvin Goel. Correlating Multi-Session Attacks via Replay. Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep). November, 2006.

Jing Su, Kelvin K. W. Chan, Andrew G. Miklas, Kenneth Po, Ali Akhavan, Stefan Saroiu, Eyal de Lara and Ashvin Goel. A Preliminary Investigation of Worm Infections in a Bluetooth Environment. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Recurring Malcode (WORM). November, 2006.

Jing Su, Ashvin Goel and Eyal de Lara. An Empirical Evaluation of the Student-Net Delay Tolerant Network. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS). July, 2006.

Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza and Ashvin Goel. Database Replication Policies for Dynamic Content Applications. In Proceedings of the EuroSys conference. April, 2006.

Ashvin Goel, Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng, David Maier and Jim Snow. Automatic High-Performance Reconstruction and Recovery. IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication, To appear in the special issue on Security through Self-Protecting and Self-Healing Systems. 2006.

2005

Ashvin Goel, Kenneth Po, Kamran Farhadi, Zheng Li and Eyal de Lara. The Taser intrusion recovery system. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). October, 2005.

Ashvin Goel, Wu-chang Feng, David Maier, Wu-chi Feng and Jonathan Walpole. Forensix: A Robust High-Performance Reconstruction System. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing Systems (SDCS), In conjunction with International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). June, 2005.

Gokul Soundararajan, Kaloian Manassiev, Jin Chen, Ashvin Goel and Cristiana Amza. Feedback-based Scheduling for Back-end Databases in Shared Dynamic Content Server Clusters. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Short paper. June, 2005.

2004

Jing Su, Alvin Chin, Anna Popivanoca, Ashvin Goel and Eyal de Lara. User mobility for opportunistic ad-hoc networking. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA). December, 2004.

Ashvin Goel, Jonathan Walpole and Molly Shor. Real-Rate Scheduling. In Proceedings of the IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). May, 2004.