Publications

This is a collection of Gatekeeper related publications and presentations from our research group and third parties.

Table of Contents Publications Technical Reports Ph.D. Theses Presentations Third-party presentations

Technical Reports

Michel Machado, Cody Doucette, Qiaobin Fu, and John W. Byers. "Gatekeeper: The Design and Deployment of a DDoS Protection System." Technical Report. 2021. (Paper)

Cody Doucette. "An Architectural Approach for Mitigating Next-Generation Denial of Service Attacks. Boston University Ph.D. Thesis. 2021. (Paper)
- Note: Cody's thesis provides an overview of Gatekeeper in Chapter 2 and shows how to define destination policies in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 shows how Gatekeeper can be used to combat large-scale link attacks.
Qiaobin Fu. "High-performance software package processing." Boston University Ph.D. Thesis. 2020. (Paper)
- Note: Qiaobin's thesis presents Gatekeeper and our future work in Chapters 4 and 5, which should satisfy those interested in diving deep into Gatekeeper as well as its performance optimizations.

Cody Doucette. "Gatekeeper: First Open Source DDoS Protection System." NANOG 82. June 14th, 2021. (Video) (Slides)
Cody Doucette. "An Architectural Approach for Mitigating Next-Generation Denial of Service Attacks." Ph.D. Thesis Defense. December 3rd, 2020. (Video) (Slides)
Michel Machado. "Gatekeeper: First Open Source DDoS Protection System." GTER 49 | GTS 35. November 30th, 2020. (Video) (Slides)
- Note: although the slides are in English, the presentation is in Portuguese.

Alexander Pavlov. "The Fight Against DDoS at Mail.ru." NextHop 2020. October 12th, 2020. (Video).