Neil Daswani

and the Google Ad Traffic Quality Team From the forthcoming book, Crimeware, (2009)

Neil Daswani, Chris Mysen, Vinay Rao, Stephen Weis, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Shuman Ghosemajumder, ...

The growth of the web-based online advertising industry has created many new opportunities for lead generation, brand awareness, and electronic commerce for advertisers. In the online marketplace,...

ABSTRACT Pong-Cache Poisoning in GUESS ∗ (2008)

Neil Daswani, Hector Garcia-molina

This paper studies the problem of resource discovery in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. We propose simple policies that make the discovery of resources resilient to coordinated attacks by...

ABSTRACT Pong-Cache Poisoning in GUESS ∗ (2008)

Neil Daswani, Hector Garcia-molina

This paper studies the problem of resource discovery in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. We propose simple policies that make the discovery of resources resilient to coordinated attacks by...

The anatomy of clickbot.a (2007)

Neil Daswani, Security Teams, Google Inc

This paper provides a detailed case study of the architecture of the Clickbot.A botnet that attempted a low-noise click fraud attack against syndicated search engines. The botnet of over 100,000...

An Experimental Study of the Skype Peer-to-Peer VoIP System (2006)

Saikat Guha, Neil Daswani, Ravi Jain

Despite its popularity, relatively little is known about the traffic characteristics of the Skype VoIP system and how they differ from other P2P systems. We describe an experimental study of Skype...

An Experimental Study of the Skype Peer-to-Peer VoIP System (2005)

Guha, Saikat, Daswani, Neil

Despite its popularity, relatively little is known about the traf- fic characteristics of the Skype VoIP system and how they differ from other P2P systems. We describe an experimental study of Skype...

An Experimental Study of the Skype Peer-to-Peer VoIP System (2005)

Guha, Saikat, Daswani, Neil

Despite its popularity, relatively little is known about the traf- fic characteristics of the Skype VoIP system and how they differ from other P2P systems. We describe an experimental study of Skype...

Maximizing remote work in flooding-based peer-to-peer systems (2003)

Qixiang Sun, Neil Daswani, Hector Garcia-molina

Abstract. In peer-to-peer (P2P) systems where individual peers must cooperate to process each other's requests, a useful metric for evaluating the system is how many remote requests are serviced...

Peer-to-Peer Research at Stanford (2003)

Mayank Bawa, Brian F. Cooper, Arturo Crespo, Neil Daswani, Prasanna Ganesan, Hector Garcia-molina, ...

this paper we present recent and ongoing research projects of the Peers research group at Stanford University. Section 2 studies the problems relating to locating resources in P2P systems. Section 3...

Open Problems in Data-Sharing Peer-to-Peer Systems (2003)

Neil Daswani, Hector Garcia-molina, Beverly Yang

In a Peer-To-Peer (P2P) system, autonomous computers pool their resources (e.g., les, storage, compute cycles) in order to inexpensively handle tasks that would normally require large costly servers....

Maximizing remote work in flooding-based peer-to-peer systems (2003)

Qixiang Sun, Neil Daswani, Hector Garcia-molina

In peer-to-peer (P2P) systems where individual peers must cooperate to process each other’s requests, a useful metric for evaluating the system is how many remote requests are serviced by each...

Protecting the pipe from malicious peers (2002)

Brian F. Cooper, Mayank Bawa, Neil Daswani, Hector Garcia-molina

Digital materials can be protected from failures by replicating them at multiple autonomous, distributed sites. A Peerto-peer Information Preservation and Exchange (PIPE) network is a good way to...

Query-Flood DoS Attacks in Gnutella (2002)

Neil Daswani And, Neil Daswani, Hector Garcia-molina

We describe a simple but e#ective tra#c model that can be used to understand the e#ects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks based on query floods in Gnutella networks. We run simulations based on the...

Cryptographic Execution Time for WTLS Handshakes on (2000)

Neil Daswani

This paper analyzes the cryptographic operation time that is required to execute secure transactions on wireless PDAs with WAP browsers. We evaluate the time required to execute the necessary...

Experimenting with Electronic Commerce on the PalmPilot (1998)

Neil Daswani, Dan Boneh

. This paper describes our experience with implementing an electronic payment system for the PalmPilot. Although Palm OS lacks support for many desired security features, we are able to build a...

SWAPEROO: A Simple Wallet Architecture for Payments, Exchanges, Refunds, and Other Operations (1998)

Neil Daswani, Dan Boneh, Hector Garcia-molina, Steven Ketchpel, Andreas Paepcke

Most existing digital wallet implementations support a single or a limited set of proprietary financial instruments and protocols for electronic commerce transactions, preventing a user from having...

SWAPEROO: A Simple Wallet Architecture for Payments, Exchanges, Refunds, and Other Operations (1998)

Neil Daswani, Neil Daswani, Dan Boneh, Dan Boneh, Hector Garcia-molina, Hector Garcia-molina, ...

Most existing digital wallet implementations support a single or a limited set of proprietary financial instruments and protocols for electronic commerce transactions, preventing a user from having...