Publications

End-to-End Detection of Middlebox Interference [PDF] [Slides] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Peter Reiher
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), May 2024
(Top Papers Award)

Entailing Security Mindset in Foundational CS Courses: An Interactive Approach [PDF] [Slides]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Hassan Pournaghshband
IEEE World Engineering Education Conference (EDUNINE), March 2024

Identifying Traffic Prioritization on the Internet [PDF] [Slides][BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband
IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom), June 2023

Teaching Security Notions in Entry-Level Programming Courses [PDF][BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Hassan Pournaghshband
IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Education (TALE), December 2021

Simulating Network Link Compression in Loss-less Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) Environment [PDF] [Slides]
Rozita Teymourzadeh, Ramona Carmen Stoica, Robert Chang, and Vahab Pournaghshband
20th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC), December 2021

Appending Security Theories to Projects in Upper-Division CS Courses [PDF] [Slides]
Vahab Pournaghshband
7th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSTY), December 2021

Promoting Diversity-Inclusive Computer Science Pedagogies: A Multidimensional Perspective [PDF] [Slides] [Video] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Paola Medel
25th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), June 2020
(Best Paper Award Finalist)

PLDetect: a Testbed for MiddleBox Detection using PlanetLab [PDF] [BibTex]
Paul Kirth and Vahab Pournaghshband
EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM), December 2019

Protecting Legacy Mobile Medical Devices Using a Wearable Security Device [PDF]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Peter Reiher
6th International Conference on Computer Networks & Data Communications (CNDC), December 2019

Eliminating Gender Bias in Computer Science Education Materials [PDF] [Slides] [BibTex]
Paola Medel and Vahab Pournaghshband
48th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), March 2017

Simulating Strict Priority Queueing, Weighted Round Robin, and Weighted Fair Queueing with NS-3 [PDF]
Robert Chang and Vahab Pournaghshband
International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services, vol 10 no 1 & 2, January 2017

An Improvement Mechanism for Low Priority Traffic TCP Performance in Strict Priority Queueing [PDF] [Slides]
Mahdi Rahimi and Vahab Pournaghshband
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Informatics (ICCCI), January 2016

Differentiated Services Queuing Methods in NS-3 [PDF] [Slides] [BibTex]
Robert Chang, Mahdi Rahimi, and Vahab Pournaghshband
7th International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL), November 2015
(Best Paper Award)

Adrasteia: A Smartphone App for Securing Legacy Mobile Medical Devices [PDF] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband, Majid Sarrafzadeh, David Meyer, Michael Holyland, and Peter Reiher
IEEE Workshop on Usable Mobile Security (WUMS), December 2014

How to Detect Middleboxes: Guidelines on a Methodology [PDF]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Peter Reiher
6th International Conference on Network and Communications Security (NCS), December 2014

End-to-End Detection of Compression of Traffic Flows by Intermediaries [PDF ] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband, Alexander Afanasyev, and Peter Reiher
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), May 2014

Teaching the Security Mindset to CS 1 Students [PDF] [Slides] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband
44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), March 2013

Securing Legacy Mobile Medical Devices [PDF] [Slides] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband, Majid Sarrafzadeh, and Peter Reiher
3rd International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth), November 2012

Controlling Applications by Managing Network Characteristics [PDF] [Slides] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband, Leonard Kleinrock, Peter Reiher, and Alexander Afanasyev
IEEE Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (ICC), June 2012

Incorporating the Security Mindset into Introductory Programming Courses [PDF}
Vahab Pournaghshband
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science, October 2013

A Robust Trust Model for Named-Data Networks [PDF] [Slides]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Karthikeyan Natarajan
International Conference on Security and Management (SAM), July 2011

A New Watermarking Approach for Relational Data [PDF] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband
46th ACM Annual Southeast Regional Conference (ACM-SE), March 2008

An Optimal Query Execution Plan for Database Systems [PDF]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Shahriar Movafaghi
Information Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA), May 2007

Demonstration of a Technique for Stereoscopic Tracking of CMEs for NASA's STEREO Mission [Abstract]
Liewer, Paulette, Eric Dejong, Jeffery Hall, and Vahab Pournaghshband
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, October 2006

Poster Presentations

Locating Link-Layer Compression Links on the Internet [Slides] [Video]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Xiuhui Wang
Annual Congress on Frontiers in Science, Technology, Services, and Applications (IARIA), July 2024

TarProbe: Detecting Strict Priority Queueing [Slides]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Manali Patil
International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation (INFOCOMP), June 2023

A Base Class to Simulate Differentiated Services [Slides]
Vahab Pournaghshband, Aren Mark Boghozian, and Dam Ju Kim
International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS), June 2019

Theses

End-to-End Detection of Third-Party Middlebox Interference [PDF] [BibTex]
Vahab Pournaghshband
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Computer Science,
Computer Science, Ph.D. Dissertation, June 2014

Statistical Analysis of Online News [PDF]
Vahab Pournaghshband
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Computer Science Division, Master Thesis. May 2008

Technical Reports

On Prevalence of Translucent Middleboxes (2020) [PDF]
Vahab Pournaghshband

A Robust Skeletonizer for Farsi Image-texts (2007) [PDF]
Vahab Pournaghshband

Determination of the 3D Trajectory and Velocity of Coronal Mass Ejections using Stereoscopy (2006)
[PDF] [Slides]
Vahab Pournaghshband and Paulett Liewer

Patents

Security of Mobile Medical Devices. (2012) UCLA Case No. 2012-817
Vahab Pournaghshband, Majid Sarrafzadeh, and Peter Reiher

Software

KelK: The Farsi OCR. [kelksofware webpage]
Vahab Pournaghshband, Fares Hedayati, Mike Nelson, Vijay Ganapathi, and Katy Harrison. (2006-2008)

Taracom: End-to-End Third-Party Compression Detection. [development webpage]
Vahab Pournaghshband, Robert Chang, Seyed Mahdi Hosseini-Moghaddam, Matin Fouladinejad. (2012-2014)

Manuscripts

Notes on Transport Layer Security (2009) [PDF]

Advances in Self-Policing Cloud Computing (2009) [PDF]

What Are Botnets and How to Hijack Them? (2009) [PDF]

Short Tutorial on Signals in Linux (2008) [HTML]

Privacy Concerns (2007) [PDF]