Professional Affiliations

I am also a Research Affiliate in the Advanced Network Architecture Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Coordinates

Technical Interests:

Key words for topics of interest to me are:

• Measurement of Interent Performance, Security and Architecture
• Internet Policy
• Performance Analysis
• Traffic Engineering
• Congestion Controls
• Connection Admission Controls

Publications

Selected Papers

• P. Richter, O. Gasser & A. Berger, Illuminating Large-Scale IPv6 Scanning in the Internet, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022, Nice, France, October 25-27, 2022. [bibtex]

• J. P. Rula, P. Richter, G. Smaragdakis, & A. Berger, Who's left behind?: Measuring Adoption of Application Updates at Scale, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2020, October 27-29, 2020 Pages 710-723. [bibtex]

• P. Richter, & A. Berger Scanning the Scanners: Sensing the Internet from a Massively Distributed Network Telescope, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Oct. 21-23, 2019.

• W. Lehr, D. Clark, S. Bauer, A. Berger, & P. Richter, Whither the public Internet? Journal of Information Policy, 9, 1-42, 2019.

• P. Richter, R. Padmanabhan, N. Spring, A. Berger, & D. Clark, Advancing the Art of Internet Edge Outage Detection, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2018, Boston, USA, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2018.

• V. Giotsas, G. Smaragdakis, C. Dietzel, P. Richter, A. Feldmann, & A. Berger, Inferring BGP Blackholing Activity in the Internet, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2017, London, Great Britain, November 1-3, 2017.

• V. Giotsas, C. Dietzel, G.Smaragdakis, A. Feldmann, A. Berger, & E. Aben. Detecting Peering Infrastructure Outages in the Wild, Proc. of the ACM SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, USA, August 21-25, 2017.

• P. Richter, G. Smaragdakis, D. Plonka, & A. Berger Beyond Counting: New Perspectives on the Active IPv4 Address Space, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2016, Santa Monica, USA, November 14-16, 2016. Awarded best technical paper.

• P. Foremski, D. Plonka, & A. Berger Entropy/IP: Uncovering Structure in IPv6 Addresses, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2016, Santa Monica, USA, November 14-16, 2016.

• B. Chandrasekaran, G. Smaragdakis, A. Berger, M. Luckie, & K.C. Ng, A Server-to-Server View of the Internet, The 11th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2015, Heidelberg, Germany, December 1-4 2015.

• D. Plonka, & A. Berger Temporal and Spatial Classification of Active IPv6 Addresses, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2015, Tokyo, Japan, October 28-30, 2015.

• R. Beverly, & A. Berger Server Siblings: Identifying Shared IPv4/IPv6 Infrastructure via Active Fingerprinting, Proc. of Active and Passive Measurement Conference 2015, New York, New York, March 19-20, 2015.

• A. Berger, N. Weaver, R. Beverly, & L. Campbell, Internet Nameserver IPv4 and IPv6 Address Relationships, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2013, Barcelona, Spain, October 23-25, 2013.

• M. Heikkinen, & A. Berger Comparison of User Traffic Characteristics on Mobile-Access versus Fixed-Access Networks, Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7192, Pages 32-412.

• S. Bauer, R. Beverly, & A. Berger Measuring the State of ECN Readiness in Servers, Clients, and Routers, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2011, Berlin, Germany, November 2-4, 2011, pp. 171-179.

• R. Beverly, A. Berger, & G. Xie, Primitives for Active Internet Topology Mapping: Toward High-Frequency Characterization, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia, November 1-3, 2010, pp. 165-171.

• R. Beverly, A. Berger, Y. Hyun, & K. Claffy, Understanding the Efficacy of Deployed Internet Source Address Validation Filtering, Proc. of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2009, Chicago, Illinois, November 4-6, 2009, pp. 356-369.

• P. Faratin, D. Clark, S. Bauer, W. Lehr, P. Gilmore, & A. Berger The Growing Complexity Of Internet Interconnection, Communications & Strategies, No. 72, 4th quarter 2008, pp. 51-71. Extended version prepared for the 35th Annual Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, September 2007.

• X. Yang, D. Clark, & A. Berger NIRA: a New Inter-Domain Routing Architecture, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.15, No. 4, August 2007, pp. 775 - 788.

• S. Kandula, D. Katabi, S. Sinha, & A. Berger Dynamic Load Balancing Without Packet Reordering, Computer Communication Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 2007, pp. 53-62.

• R. Beverly, S. Bauer, & A. Berger The Internet's Not a Big Truck: Toward Quantifying Network Neutrality, Proceedings of the 8th Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, April 5-6, 2007, pp. 135-144.

• R. Beverly, K. Sollins, & A. Berger SVM Learning of IP Address Structure for Latency Prediction, SIGCOMM 2006 Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet-06), Pisa, Italy, Sept, 15 2006.

• H. Rahul, M. Kasbekar, R. Sitaraman, & A. Berger Towards Realizing the Performance and Availability Benefits of a Global Overlay Network, Passive and Active Measurement Conference, March, 2006.

• S. Kandula, D. Katabi, M. Jacob, & A. Berger Botz-4-Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds, Second Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), Boston MA, May 2005.

• J. Jung, S. Schechter, & A. Berger >Fast Detection of Scanning Worm Infections, Seventh Inter. Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Sophia Antipolis, France, September 15-17, 2004.

• A. Feldmann, O. Maennel, Z. M. Mao, A. Berger, & B. Maggs, Locating Internet Routing Instabilities, SIGCOMM 2004, Portland Oregon, August 30 - September 3, 2004.

• J. Jung, V. Paxson, A. Berger, & H. Balakrishnan, >Fast Portscan Detection Using Sequential Hypothesis Testing, Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2004.

Curriculum Vitae