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Note: A paper to discuss in each topic is marked bold.

Infrastructure

Topic	Papers
Path quality	A geometric approach to improving active packet loss measurement. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 16(2), 2008. The role of PASTA in network measurement. SIGCOMM 2006.
Congestion monitoring	Monitoring persistently congested Internet links. ICNP 2008. Wavelet-based approach to detect shared congestion. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 16(4), 2008.
Topology discovery	DisCarte: A disjunctive Internet cartographer. SIGCOMM 2008. Network routing topology inference from end-to-end measurements. INFOCOM 2008.
AS-level topology	In search of the elusive ground truth: The Internet's AS-level connectivity structure. SIGMETRICS 2008. Characterizing and modeling clustering features in AS-level Internet topology. INFOCOM 2008.
Network coordinates	Distributed algorithms for stable and secure network coordinates. IMC 2008. Network coordinates in the wild. NSDI 2007.
Wireless networks	802.11n under the microscope. IMC 2008. Interactive WiFi connectivity for moving vehicles. SIGCOMM 2008.

Traffic

Topic	Papers
Sampling	Accurate and efficient traffic monitoring using adaptive non-linear sampling method. INFOCOM 2008. Optimal sampling in state space models with applications to network monitoring. SIGMETRICS 2008.
Enterprise networks	Towards highly reliable enterprise network services via inference of multi-level dependencies. SIGCOMM 2007. How healthy are today's enterprise networks? IMC 2008.
Wireless traffic	Analysis of a mixed-use urban wifi network: when metropolitan becomes neapolitan. IMC 2008. A measurement study of a commercial-grade urban wifi mesh. IMC 2008.
Network-wide anomaly detection	Diagnosing network disruptions with network-wide analysis. SIGMETRICS 2007. Sensitivity of PCA for traffic anomaly detection. SIGMETRICS 2007.
Traffic classification	Profiling Internet backbone traffic: Behavior models and applications. SIGCOMM 2005. BLINC: Multilevel traffic classification in the dark. SIGCOMM 2005.
Traffic matrix estimation	A quasi-likelihood approach for accurate traffic matrix estimation in a high speed network. INFOCOM 2008. Robust traffic matrix estimation with imperfect information: Making use of multiple data sources. SIGMETRICS 2006.

Application

Topic	Papers
Social networks	Unveiling Facebook: A measurement study of social network based applications. IMC 2008. Comparison of online social relations in volume vs. interaction: A case study of Cyworld. IMC 2008.
Multimedia streaming	Thinning Akamai. IMC 2008. Challenges, design and analysis of a large-scale P2P-VoD system. SIGCOMM 2008. Watching television over an IP network. IMC 2008.
Games	Measurement-based characterization of a collection of on-line games. IMC 2005. Game traffic analysis: An MMORPG perspective. NOSSDAV 2005.
Voice over IP	Understanding Skype signaling. Computer Networks, 2009. Tracking down Skype traffic. INFOCOM 2008.
Bandwidth-aware routing	Bandwidth-aware routing in overlay networks. INFOCOM 2008 Path selection using available bandwidth estimation in overlay-based video streaming. Networking 2007.

Anonymization and Security

Topic	Papers
Anonymization	Taming the devil: Techniques for evaluating anonymized network data. NDSS 2008. Analyzing privacy in enterprise packet tract anonymization. NDSS 2008. Playing devil's advocate: Inferring sensitive information from anonymized network traces. NDSS 2007.
Botnets	BotSniffer: Detecting botnet command and control channels in network traffic. NDSS 2008. A multifaceted approach to understanding the botnet phenomenon. IMC 2006.
Honeynet	Shedding light on the configuration of dark addresses. NDSS 2007. Scalability, fidelity, and containment in the Potemkin virtual honeyfarm. SOSP 2005.
Spam	Spamming botnets: Signatures and characteristics. SIGCOMM 2008 Understanding the network-level behavior of spammers. SIGCOMM 2006.
Denial of Service attacks	To filter or to authorize: Network-layer DoS defense against multimillion node botnets. SIGCOMM 2008. dFence: Transparent network-based denial of service mitigation. NSDI 2007.
Web security	Automated web patrol with strider HoneyMonkey: Finding web sites that exploit browser vulnerabilities. NDSS 2006. A crawler-based study of spyware in the web. NDSS 2006.