Publications

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

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

Differentiated Services Queuing Methods in NS-3 [PDF]
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]
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] [BibTex]
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.

Theses

End-to-End Detection of Third-Party Middlebox Interference [PDF]
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

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 Pending

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-present)

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]