research

Conference Papers

• Economic Rebalancing of the Costs and Benefits of Volumetric DDoS Mitigation in the Internet: A Case Study of TCP
  Samuel DeLaughter, Karen Sollins, and William Lehr
  TPRC ‘23: Proceedings of the 51st Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy
  September 2023

• Context Matters: Accurately Measuring the Efficacy of Denial-of-Service Mitigations
  Samuel DeLaughter and Karen Sollins
  CSET ‘22: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test
  August 2022

• Measuring and Analyzing DoS Flooding Experiments
  Amir Farhart, Samuel DeLaughter, and Karen Sollins
  CSET ‘22: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test
  August 2022

• Using Proof-of-Work to Mitigate Spoofing-Based Denial of Service Attacks
  Samuel DeLaughter and Karen Sollins
  CoNEXT-SW ‘21: Proceedings of the CoNEXT Student Workshop
  December 2021

Theses

• Redistributing the Costs of Volumetric Denial-of-Service Mitigation
  PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Advised by Karen Sollins
  August 2023

• A Comparative Analysis of Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Network Protocols
  SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Advised by Karen Sollins
  February 2019

Patents

• High Performance Distributed System of Record with Confidence-Based Consensus
  Co-Inventor, Assigned to Akamai Technologies
  Patent Pending, Published May 2020