Prof. Gareth Tyson

About Me

I moved to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2022 (see my profile here), and am currently recruting PhD students. Please feel free to reach out! My research is in the broad area of Internet Data Science: details of my publications can be found here or on Google Scholar. Over the last 5 years, I have been awarded over £5 million in research funding and have received coverage from news outlets such as Washington Post, CNBC, BBC, New Scientist, MIT Tech Review, The Times, Slashdot, Daily Mail, Wired, Science Daily, Ars Technica, The Independent, Business Insider, The Register, as well as being interviewed on both TV and Radio. I have also served as an organising and program committee member for a number of prominent conferences such as ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM IMC, ACM WWW, ACM CoNEXT, and AAAI ICWSM. I have hosted ACM IMC and ACM DEV in London, and have recieved the Outstanding Reviewer Award four times at ICWSM (2016, 2018, 2019, 2021), and the Distinguished Reviewer Award at ACM CoNEXT (2022). I established the Next Generation Networking (NGN) Webinar Series, and organise the UK's annual 'Coseners' workshop. Alongside collaborators, my research has been awarded the SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award 2023; the IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2023; the WOAH Shared Task on Hateful Memes Prize 2021; the Best Student Paper Award at the Web Conference 2020; the Best Paper Award at eCrime'19; the Honourable Mention Award at the Web Conference 2018 (best paper in track); and the Best Presentation Award at INFOCOM'18. I received QMUL's Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2021 and the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize in 2013.

Recent Selected Publications (2022-2024)

• Yiluo Wei, Dennis Trautwein, Yiannis Psaras, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Aravindh Raman and Gareth Tyson. The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS. In 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Santa Clara, CA (2024).
• Jiahui He, Haris Bin Zia, Ignacio Castro, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry and Gareth Tyson. Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Montreal, Canada (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 25%] [PDF]
• Zhenyu Li, Jinyang Li, Qinghua Wu, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. A Large-Scale Measurement and Optimization of Mobile Live Streaming Services. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) (2023). [Impact Factor: 6.075] [PDF]
• Pelayo Vallina, Ignacio Castro and Gareth Tyson. Cashing in on Contacts: Characterizing the OnlyFans Ecosystem. In 32nd ACM Web Conference (WWW), Austin, TX (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
• Wenrui Zuo, Aravindh Raman, Raul Mondragon and Gareth Tyson. Set in Stone: Analysis of an Immutable Web3 Social Media Platform. In 32nd ACM Web Conference (WWW), Austin, TX (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
• Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson, Tian Dong, Shaofeng Li, Shuo Wang, Haojin Zhu, Seyit Camtepe and Surya Nepal. Mate! Are You Really Aware? An Explainability-Guided Testing Framework for Robustness of Malware Detectors. In ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), San Francisco, CA (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 12%] [SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award]
• Yutao Dong, Qing Li, Kaidong Wu, Ruoyu Li, Dan Zhao, Gareth Tyson, Junkun Peng, Yong Jiang, Shutao Xia, Mingwei Xu. HorusEye: A Realtime IoT Malicious Traffic Detection Framework with Programmable Switches. In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Anaheim, CA (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 29%]
• Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp and Yiannis Psaras. Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web. In ACM SIGCOMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF] [IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize]
• Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Ri Lu, Kai Xiao, Songlin Li, Jufeng Chen, Jingyu Yang, Chunli Zong, Aiyun Chen, Qinghua Wu, Chen Sun, Gareth Tyson and Hongqiang Liu. LiveNet: A Low-Latency Video Transport Network for Large-Scale Live Streaming. In ACM SIGCOMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
• Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Ishaku Anaobi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson. Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. In ACM SIGMETRICS, Mumbai, India (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]

Service

• TPC Chair, ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT'24)
• TPC Track Chair, ACM Web Conference - Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile and WoT track (WWW'24)
• Travel Grant Chair, ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'23)
• Chair, CoNEXT Student Workshop (CoNEXT'23)
• TPC Chair, Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC'23)
• Online Experience Chair, ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM'22)
• Travel Grant Chair, ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'22)
• TPC Chair, Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC'22)
• Online Experience Chair, ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'21)
• TPC Chair, IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'21)
• Chair, CoNEXT Student Workshop (CoNEXT'21)
• TPC Chair, International Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'20)
• Chair, ACM Information-Centric Economic, Societal and Governance Workshop (ICE-SoGo'20)
• Sponsorship Chair for ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT'19)
• Organiser of Shadow TPC for ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'19)
• Chair of Data Science for Bridging the Digital Divide Workshop (Turing Workshop)
• Organiser of Shadow TPC for ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'18)
• Travel Grant Chair for IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'18)
• Local Chair for ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'17)
• General Chair for AFRICOMM Workshop on Internet Measurements Research in Africa (IMRA'17)
• Publicity Chair for IEEE INFOCOM Global Internet Symposium (GI'17)
• Local chair for ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV'15)
• Poster Chair for ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN'15)
• Publicity Chair for IEEE INFOCOM CrossCloud Workshop (CrossCloud'14)

• ACM SIGMETRICS Conference (SIGMETRICS'24)
• ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'24)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'24)
• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS'24)
• 1st AAAI ICWSM International Workshop on Decentralizing the Web (DeWeb)
• ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'23)
• ACM SIGMETRICS Conference (SIGMETRICS'23)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'23)
• Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM'23)
• ACM MobiCom Workshop on Data Privacy and Federated Learning Technologies for Mobile Edge Network (FedEdge'23)
• ACM Web Conference (WWW'22)
• ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT'22)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'22)
• ACM SIGMETRICS Conference (SIGMETRICS'22)
• Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM'22)
• IEEE ICDCS Workshop on Decentralized Internet, Networks, Protocols, and Systems (DINPS'22)
• NAACL Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH'22)
• ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'21)
• ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT'21)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'21)
• Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM'21)
• International Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'21)
• IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'21)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'20)
• IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'20)
• ACM Web Sccience Conference (WebSci'20)
• ACM SIGCAS Computing and Sustainable Societies Conference (COMPASS'20)
• International Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'20)
• ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN'20)
• ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT'19)
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'19)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'19)
• IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on the Communications and Networking Aspects of Online Social Networks (CAOS'19)
• International Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'19)
• ACM EuroSys Workshop on Cross-Cloud Systems (CrossCloud'19)
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'18)
• IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'18)
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN'18)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'18)
• International Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'18)
• 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM'18)
• IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Social Human Behaviour Analysis through Online Social Networks and Media (SAO'18)
• ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Poster and Demo Track (SIGCOMM'17)
• ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN'17)
• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS'17)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'17)
• 42nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'17)
• IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'17)
• ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM'17)
• IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS'17)
• 13th SIGCOMM Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC'17)
• International Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'17)
• IFIP Networking Workshop on Information-Centric Fog Computing (ICFC'17)
• International Teletraffic Congresses: Ubiquitous, software-based, and sustainable networks and services (ITC'17)
• ACM EuroSys Workshop on Cross-Cloud Systems (CrossCloud'17)
• IEEE ICDCS Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Computing and Online Social Networking (HotPOST'17)
• IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'16)
• AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'16)
• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS'16)
• IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'16)
• International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'16)
• ACM SIGCOMM Glocal Access to the Internet for All Workshop (GAIA'16)
• IEEE MobiHoc Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Computing and Online Social Networking (HotPOST'16)
• ACM EuroSys Workshop on Cross-Cloud Systems (CrossCloud'16)
• IEEE ICC Workshop on Social Networks (SAC'16)
• IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements (WNM'16)
• IEEE International Workshop on Future Internet Architecture for Developing Regions (FI4D'16)
• IEEE ICNP Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX'16)
• IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'15)
• IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'15)
• IEEE/ACM Symposium on Quality and Service, posters/demos track (IWQoS'15)
• IEEE ICDCS Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Computing and Online Social Networking (HotPOST'15)
• International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'15)
• IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communication and Networking Techniques for Contemporary Video (CNTCV'15)
• 20th IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD’15).
• IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'14)
• ACM Multimedia Conference, Technical Demo Track (MM'14)
• ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Workshop on Cross Cloud Broker (xCloudBrokers'14)
• International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMC'14)
• IEEE ICDCS Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Computing and Online Social Networking (HotPOST'14)
• IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Phd Forum (ICNP'14)
• IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'13)
• IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Phd Forum (ICNP'13)
• IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Emerging Design Choices in Name-Oriented Networking (NOMEN'13)
• IEEE ICDCS Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Computing and Online Social Networking (HotPOST'13)
• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'13)
• IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON'13)
• ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Emerging Name-Oriented Mobile Networking Design (NOM'12)
• IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Emerging Design Choices in Name-Oriented Networking (NOMEN'12)
• IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON'12)
• IEEE International Workshop on Future Media Networking (FMN'12)
• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'12)
• IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON'11)
• IEEE International Workshop on Future Media Networking (FMN'09)
• IEEE International Workshop on Future Media Networking (FMN'08)

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
• ACM Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSys)
• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ToM)
• ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
• IEEE Network Magazine
• Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET)
• Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM)
• Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)
• IEEE Communications Letters
• Wireless Communications Magazine
• Wiley Security and Communication Networks (SCN)
• Springer Telecommunication Systems

PhD Supervision and Teaching

I am currently recruting fully-funded PhD positions at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. I supervise PhDs in the (broad) areas of social computing, data science and computer systems. Most of my projects involve a lot of data collection and analysis, so a real-world focus is a must. Please drop me a mail if you're interested in brainstorming topics. I have also been teaching the following modules:

• IOTA5001: Web & Social Computing (2022-present)
• IOTA6910A: Security in IoT Systems: Theory and Applications (2022-present)
• EBU6042: Advanced Network Prorgamming (2015-2021)
• EBU4201: Introductory Java Programming (2015-2021)
• EBU750U: Cloud Computing (2017-2019)
• ECS703: 21st Century Networks (2014/15)
• ECS637/ECS757: Digital Media and Social Networks (2014/15)
• ECS626U: MEng Group Projects (2014/2015)
• ECS403: Communications and Networks (2013/14)

Full Publication List

Journals

1. Zhenyu Li, Jinyang Li, Qinghua Wu, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. A Large-Scale Measurement and Optimization of Mobile Live Streaming Services. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) (2023). [Impact Factor: 6.075] [PDF]
2. Jianer Zhou, Xinyi Qiu, Zhenyu Li, Qing Li, Gareth Tyson, Jingpu Duan, Yi Wang, Heng Pan, and Qinghua Wu. A Machine Learning-based Framework for Dynamic Selection of Congestion Control Algorithms. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) (2023). [Impact Factor: 3.796] [PDF]
3. Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li, Heng Pan, Guangming Liu, Yunfei Chen, Qinghua Wu, Gareth Tyson, Gang Cheng. Large-Scale Measurements and Prediction of DC-WAN Traffic. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (2023). [Impact Factor 4.181] [PDF]
4. Penghao Zhang, Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Penglai Cui, Ru Jia, Peng He, Zhibin Zhang, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. NetSHa: In-network Acceleration of LSH-based Distributed Search. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (2022). [Impact Factor: 4.181] [PDF]
5. Donghui Yang, Zhenyu Li, Haiyang Jiang, Gareth Tyson, Hongtao Li, Gaogang Xie and Yu Zeng. A Deep Dive into DNS Behavior and Query Failures. In Computer Networks (COMNET). [Impact Factor: 5.493]
6. Rana Tallal Javed, Mirza Elaaf Shuja, Muhammad Usama, Junaid Qadir, Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro and Kiran Garimella. A Deep Dive into COVID-19-Related Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. In Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) (2022). [Impact Factor: 3.87] [PDF]
7. Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. Characterising Usage Patterns and Privacy Risks of a Home Security Camera Service. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) (2021). [Impact Factor: 6.075] [PDF]
8. Koosha Zarei, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi and Gareth Tyson. Dataset of Coronavirus Content From Instagram With an Exploratory Analysis. In IEEE Access (2021). [Impact Factor: 3.476] [PDF]
9. Siddique Latif, Muhammad Usman, Sanaullah Manzoor, Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Adeel Razi, Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Adrian Weller and Jon Crowcroft. Leveraging Data Science To Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review. In IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI) (2020). [PDF]
10. Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood Masood, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Noha Loizon and Roya Ensafi. Measuring and Analysing the Chain of Implicit Trust: A Study of Third-party Resources Loading. In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) (2020). [Impact Factor: 1.714] [PDF]
11. Pengpeng Zhou, Yang Wang, Zhenyu Li, Xin Wang, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. LogChain: Cloud Workflow Reconstruction & Troubleshooting with Unstructured Logs. In Computer Networks Journal (COMNET) (2020). [Impact Factor: 3.030]
12. Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, Rana Tallal Javed, Adnan Noor Mian, Jon Crowcroft and Gareth Tyson. Five Decades of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM): A Bibliometric Perspective. In ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 49, No. 5 (2019).[PDF] [Impact Factor: 3.577]
13. Zafar Gilani, Reza Farahbakhsh, Gareth Tyson and Jon Crowcroft. A Large Scale Behavioural Analysis of Bots and Humans on Twitter. In ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2019). [PDF] [Impact Factor: 1.526]
14. Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, Gareth Tyson, Adnan Noor Mian, Saeed Ul Hassan, Jon Crowcroft. A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in Computer Networking Research. In Scientometrics Journal, Vol. 119, No. 2 (2019). [PDF] [Impact Factor: 2.173]
15. Jie Deng, Gareth Tyson, Felix Cuadrado, Steve Uhlig. Keddah: Network Evaluation Powered by Simulating Distributed Application Traffic. In ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 29 No. 3 (2019). [PDF] [Impact Factor: 1.075]
16. Roderick Fanou, Gareth Tyson, Eder Leao Fernandes, Pierre Francois and Arjuna Sathiaseelan. Exploring and Analysing the African Web Ecosystem. In ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2018). Impact Factor: 1.526] [PDF]
17. Timm Boettger, Felix Cuadrado, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro and Steve Uhlig. A Hypergiant's View of the Internet. In SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 48, No. 3 (2018). [Impact Factor: 3.577] [PDF] [The Register] [IEEE Spectrum] [Daily Mail][Quartz]
18. Liang Wang, Gareth Tyson, Jussi Kangasharju and Jon Crowcroft. Milking the Cache Cow with Fairness in Mind. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 25, No. 5 (2017). [Impact Factor: 3.376] [PDF]
19. Qinghua Wu, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Steve Uhlig, Mohamed-Ali Kaafar and Gaogang Xie. Privacy-aware Multipath Video Caching for Content-Centric Networks. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 34, No. 8 (2016). [Impact Factor: 7.172] [PDF]
20. Gareth Tyson, Yehia Elkhatib, Nishanth Sastry and Steve Uhlig. Measurements and Analysis of an Adult Video Streaming Website. In ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2016). [Impact Factor: 4.094] [PDF]
21. Gianfranco Nencioni, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson, Vijay Badrinarayanan, Dmytro Karamshuk, Jigna Chandaria and Jon Crowcroft. SCORE: Exploiting global broadcasts to create offline personal channels for on-demand access. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2015). [Impact Factor: 3.376] [PDF]
22. Yonggong Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Steve Uhlig and Gaogang Xie. Design and Evaluation of the Optimal Cache Allocation for Content-Centric Networking. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 1 (2015). [Impact Factor: 3.052] [PDF]
23. Gareth Tyson, Eliane Bodanese, John Bigham and Andreas Mauthe. Beyond Content Delivery: Can ICNs Help Emergency Scenarios? In IEEE Network, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2014). [Impact Factor: 7.197] [PDF]
24. Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry, Ruben Cuevas, Ivica Rimac and Andreas Mauthe. Where is in a Name? A Survey of Mobility in Information-Centric Networks. In Communications of the ACM, Vol. 56, No. 12 (2013). [Impact Factor: 3.063] [PDF]
25. Gareth Tyson, Andreas Mauthe, Sebastian Kaune, Paul Grace, Adel Taweel and Thomas Plagemann. Juno: A Middleware Platform for Supporting Delivery-Centric Applications. In ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2012). [Impact Factor: 1.7] [PDF]

Conferences

2024

1. Yiming Zhu, Zhizhuo Yin, Gareth Tyson, Ehsan-ul Haq, Paul Lee and Pan Hui. APT-Pipe: An Automatic Prompt-Tuning Tool for Social Computing Data Annotation. In ACM Web Conference (WWW), Singapore (2024). [Acceptance Rate: 20%]
2. Jintao Huang, Pengcheng Xia, Jiefeng Li, Kai Ma, Gareth Tyson, Xiapu Luo, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Wei Cai and Haoyu Wang. Unveiling the Paradox of NFT Prosperity. In ACM Web Conference (WWW), Singapore (2024). [Acceptance Rate: 20%]
3. Yiluo Wei, Dennis Trautwein, Yiannis Psaras, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Aravindh Raman and Gareth Tyson. The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS. In 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Santa Clara, CA (2024).
4. Dennis Trautwein, Yiluo Wei, Ioannis Psaras, Moritz Schubotz, Ignacio Castro, Bela Gipp, Gareth Tyson. IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with Optimistic Provide. In 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Vancouver, Canada (2024). [Acceptance Rate: 19%]
5. Xiaoteng Ma, Qing Li, Junkun Peng, Gareth Tyson, Ziwen Ye, Shisong Tang, Qian Ma, Shengbin Meng, Gabriel-Miro Muntean. Smart Data-Driven Proactive Push to Edge Network for User-Generated Videos. In 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Vancouver, Canada (2024). [Acceptance Rate: 19%]
6. Yimeng Gu, Ignacio Castro and Gareth Tyson. Detecting Multimodal Fake News with Gated Variational AutoEncoder. In 16th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci), Stuttgart, Germany (2024). [Acceptance Rate: 30%]
7. Wenrui Zuo, Raul Mondragon, Aravindh Raman and Gareth Tyson. Understanding and Improving Content Moderation in Web3 Platforms. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).
8. Yupeng He, Yimeng Gu, Ravi Shekhar, Ignacio Castro and Gareth Tyson. Making the Pick: Understanding Professional Editor Comment Curation in Online News. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).
9. Yimeng Zhu, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Gareth Tyson, Lik-Hang Lee, Yuyang Wang and Pan Hui. A Study of Partisan News Sharing in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).
10. Matthew Barnes, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Richard Clegg and Matthew Purver. Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).
11. Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Ahmed Abdelmoniem, Gareth Tyson and Ignacio Castro. Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).

    2023

12. Stephen McQuistin, Pete Snyder, Colin Perkins, Hamed Haddadi and Gareth Tyson. A First Look at the Privacy Harms of the Public Suffix List. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Montreal, Canada (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 25%] [PDF]
13. Jiahui He, Haris Bin Zia, Ignacio Castro, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry and Gareth Tyson. Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Montreal, Canada (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 25%] [PDF] [New Scientist]
14. Fulin Wang, Qing Li, Wanxin Shi, Gareth Tyson, Yong Jiang, Lianbo Ma, Peng Zhang, Yulong Lan and Zhicheng Li. Reparo: QoE-Aware Live Video Streaming in Low Rate Networks by Intelligent Frame Recovery. In 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), Ottawa, Canada (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 29%]
15. Yutao Dong, Qing Li, Kaidong Wu, Ruoyu Li, Dan Zhao, Gareth Tyson, Junkun Peng, Yong Jiang, Shutao Xia and Mingwei Xu. HorusEye: A Realtime IoT Malicious Traffic Detection Framework with Programmable Switches. In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Anaheim, CA (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 29%]
16. Pelayo Vallina, Ignacio Castro and Gareth Tyson. Cashing in on Contacts: Characterizing the OnlyFans Ecosystem. In 32nd ACM Web Conference (WWW), Austin, TX (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
17. Ishaku Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Dami Ibosiola and Gareth Tyson. Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse. In 32nd ACM Web Conference (WWW), Austin, TX (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
18. Wenrui Zuo, Aravindh Raman, Raul Mondragon and Gareth Tyson. Set in Stone: Analysis of an Immutable Web3 Social Media Platform. In 32nd ACM Web Conference (WWW), Austin, TX (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
19. Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson, Shuo Wang, Seyit Camtepe and Surya Nepal. Not Seen, Not Heard in the Digital World! Measuring Privacy Practices in Children's Apps. In 32nd ACM Web Conference (WWW), Austin, TX (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
20. Qian Yu, Qing Li, Rui He, Gareth Tyson, Wanxin Shi, Jianhui Lv, Zhenhui Yuan, Peng Zhang, Yulong Lan and Zhicheng Li. BiSR: Bidirectionally Optimized Super-Resolution for Mobile Video Streaming. In 32nd ACM Web Conference (WWW), Austin, TX (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
21. Qingsong Zou, Qing Li, Ruoyu Li, Yucheng Huang, Gareth Tyson, Jingyu Xiao, Shen Zhen, and Yong Jiang. IoTBeholder: A Privacy Snooping Attack on User Habitual Behaviors from Smart Home Wi-Fi Traffic. In ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Cancun, Mexico (2023). [PDF]
22. Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson, Tian Dong, Shaofeng Li, Shuo Wang, Haojin Zhu, Seyit Camtepe and Surya Nepal. Mate! Are You Really Aware? An Explainability-Guided Testing Framework for Robustness of Malware Detectors. In ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), San Francisco, CA (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 12%] [SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award]
23. Prashant Khare, Ravi Shekhar, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Patrick G.T. Healey and Matthew Purver. Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation. In 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Toronto, Canada (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 25%] [PDF]
24. Waleed Iqbal, Vahid Ghafouri, Gareth Tyson, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil and Ignacio Castro. Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network. In 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Limassol, Cyprus (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 20%] [PDF] [New York Post] [SciTechDaily] [NewsWise]
25. Stephen McQuistin, Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Colin Perkins, Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson. Errare humanum est: What do RFC Errata say about Internet Standards? In IFIP Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), Naples, Italy (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 29%]
26. Fachrina Dewi Puspitasari, Gareth Tyson, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Pan Hui and Lik-Hang Lee. Ghost Booking as a New Philanthropy Channel: A Case Study on Ukraine-Russia Conflict. In ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HyperText), Rome, Italy (2023).
27. Peixian Zhang, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Yiming Zhu, Pan Hui and Gareth Tyson. Echo Chambers within the Russo-Ukrainian War: The Role of Bipartisan Users. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Istanbul, Turkey (2023).
28. Ehsan Ul Haq, Yiming Zhu, Zijun Lin, Haodi Weng, Gareth Tyson, Lik Hang Lee, Reza Hadi Mogavi, Tristan Braud and Pan Hui. Understanding Characteristics of Catalyst Users in the WallStreetBets Community. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Kusadi, Turkey (2023).

    2022

29. Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp and Yiannis Psaras. Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web. In ACM SIGCOMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF] [IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize]
30. Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Ri Lu, Kai Xiao, Songlin Li, Jufeng Chen, Jingyu Yang, Chunli Zong, Aiyun Chen, Qinghua Wu, Chen Sun, Gareth Tyson and Hongqiang Harry Liu. LiveNet: A Low-Latency Video Transport Network for Large-Scale Live Streaming. In ACM SIGCOMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
31. Pengcheng Xia, Haoyu Wang, Zhou Yu, Xinyu Liu, Xiapu Luo, Guoai Xu and Gareth Tyson. Challenges in Decentralized Name Management: The Case of ENS. In 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France (2022) [Acceptance Rate: 26%]. [PDF]
32. Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Ishaku Anaobi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson. Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. In ACM SIGMETRICS, Mumbai, India (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
33. Ting Liu, Tianhao Miao, Qinghua Wu, Zhenyu Li, Guangxin He, Jiaoren Wu, Xingwu Yang and Gareth Tyson. Demystifying Scaling Performance Bottlenecks in Distributed Deep Learning. In 31st ACM Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 17%] [PDF]
34. Pushkal Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Kiran Garimella, Damiola Ibosiola, Gareth Tyson and Nishanth Sastry. Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp. In 31st ACM Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 17%] [PDF]
35. Prashant Khare, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey and Ignacio Castro. The Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF. In 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Atlanta, GA (2022). [Winter Acceptance Rate: 10%] [PDF]
36. Ehsan-Ul Haq, Lik-Hang Lee, Gareth Tyson, Reza Hadi Mogavi, Tristan Braud and Pan Hui. Exploring Mental Health Communications among Instagram Coaches. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Istanbul, Turkey (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
37. Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Qinghua Wu and Gareth Tyson. On Uploading Behavior and Optimizations of a Mobile Live Streaming Service. In 41st IEEE Joint Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
38. Zhiren Zhong, Wei Wang, Yiyang Shao, Zhenyu Li, Heng Pan, Hongtao Guan, Gareth Tyson, Gaogang Xie and Kai Zheng. Muses: Enabling Lightweight Learning-Based Congestion Control for Mobile Devices. In In 41st IEEE Joint Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]

    2021

39. Bingyu Gao, Haoyu Wang, Pengcheng Xia, Siwei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Xiapu Luo and Gareth Tyson. Tracking Counterfeit Cryptocurrency End-to-End. In ACM SIGMETRICS, Beijing, China (2021). [Acceptance Rate: 12%] [PDF]
40. Stephen McQuistin, Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey, Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir and Ignacio Castro. Characterising the IETF Through the Lens of RFC Deployment. In 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Virtual (2021). [Acceptance Rate: 28%] [PDF]
41. Anaobi Ishaku Hassan, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry and Gareth Tyson. Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case. In 17th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Munich, Germany (2021). [Acceptance Rate: 22%] [PDF]
42. Penghao Zhang, Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Peng He, Zhibin Zhang, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. Accelerating LSH-based Distributed Search with In-network Computation. In 40th IEEE Joint Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (2021). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
43. Jianer Zhou, Xinyi Qiu, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Qing Li, Jingpu Duan and Yi Wang. Antelope: A Framework for Dynamic Selection of Congestion Control Algorithms. In 29th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Dallas, TX (2021). [Acceptance Rate: 24%] [PDF]
44. Ruoxi Sun, Wei Wang, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson, Seyit Camtepe and Damith Ranasinghe . An Empirical Assessment of Global COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications. In International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Madrid, Spain (2021). [Acceptance Rate: 22%] [PDF] [Business Insider] [IT World Canada] [Indian Express] [Blue Mountain Gazette] [Adelaide Newsroom] [Hindu Business Line] [InnovationAUS]
45. Ella Guest, Bertie Vidgen, Alexandros Mittos, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson, Helen Margetts. An Expert Annotated Dataset for the Detection of Online Misogyny. In 16th Conference of European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Kyiv, Ukraine (2021). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 25%]

    2020

46. Yangyu Hu, Haoyu Wang, Ren He, Li Li, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Yao Guo, Lei Wu and Guoai Xu. Mobile App Squatting. In 29th Web Conference (WWW), Taipei, Taiwan (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF] [Best Student Paper Award]
47. Yuheng Huang, Haoyu Wang, Lei Wu, Gareth Tyson, Xiapu Luo, Run Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu, Gang Huang and Xuxian Jiang. Understanding (Mis)Behavior on the EOSIO Blockchain. In ACM SIGMETRICS, Boston, MA (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 15%] [PDF]
48. Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Jianbo Dong, Zheng Cao, Tao Lan, Di Zhang, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. Dissecting the Communication Latency in Distributed Deep Sparse Learning. In 20th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Pittsburgh, PA (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 24%] [PDF]
49. Donghui Yang, Zhenyu Li and Gareth Tyson. A Deep Dive into DNS Query Failures. In USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Boston, MA (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 18%] [PDF]
50. Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar, Nishanth Sastry and Gareth Tyson. Characterizing User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network. In 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Atlanta, GA (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 17%] [PDF]
51. Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. Your Privilege Gives Your Privacy Away: An Analysis of a Home Security Camera Service. In 39th IEEE Joint Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Beijing, China (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF] [BBC Radio] [CNN] [Daily Mail] [Times] [iNews] [Slashdot] [Tech Times] [Popular Mechanics]
52. Steven Wilson, Waleed Magdy, Barbara McGillivray and Gareth Tyson. Analyzing Temporal Relationships between Trending Terms on Twitter and Urban Dictionary Activity. 12th International ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci), Southampton, UK (2020) [Acceptance Rate: 27%] [PDF]
53. Rana Tallal Javed, Mirza Elaaf Shuja, Muhammad Usama, Junaid Qadir, Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Kiran Garimella. A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. In 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), The Hague, Netherlands (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 17%] [PDF]
54. Andreas Grammenos, Aravindh Raman, Timm Boettger, Zafar Gilani, Gareth Tyson. Dissecting the Workload of a Major Adult Video Portal. In 21st Passive and Active easurement Conference (PAM), Eugene, OR (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 29%] [PDF]
55. Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson. Exploring the Eastern Frontier: A First Look at Mobile App Tracking in China. In 21st Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Eugene, OR (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 29%] [PDF]

    2019

56. Aravindh Raman, Sagar Joglekar, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry and Gareth Tyson. Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case. In 19th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Amsterdam, Netherlands (2019). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF] [CNBC] [The Conversation]
57. Timm Boettger, Felix Cuadrado, Gianni Antichi, Eder Fernandes, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Steve Uhlig. An Empirical Study of the Cost of DNS-over-HTTPs (Short Paper). In 19th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Amsterdam, Netherlands (2019). [PDF] [Yahoo] [Conversation] [Acceptance Rate: 19%]
58. Damilola Ibosiola, Ignacio Castro, Gianluca Stringhini, Steve Uhlig and Gareth Tyson. Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web. In 28th Web Conference (WWW), San Francisco (2019) [PDF] [TorrentFreak] [The Sun] [Gigazine[ [Phys.org] [Deutschlandfunk] [Acceptance Rate: 18%]
59. Srdjan Matic, Gareth Tyson and Gianluca Stringhini. Pythia: A Framework for Automatic Analysis of Web Hosting Environments (Short Paper). In 28th Web Conference (WWW), San Francisco (2019) [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 20%]
60. Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood Masood, Gareth Tyson, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Noha Loizon and Roya Ensafi. The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading (Short Paper). In 28th Web Conference (WWW), San Francisco (2019) [PDF] [Daily Mail] [ITWire] [InnovationAUS] [This Money] [Technology Decisions] [Yahoo] [Acceptance Rate: 20%]
61. Yi Ting Chua, Simon Parkin, Matthew Edwards, Daniela Oliveira, Stefan Schiffner, Gareth Tyson and Alice Hutchings. Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures. In Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), Pittsburgh, PA (2019). [Best Paper Award]
62. Amreesh Phokeer, Josiah Chavula, David Johnson, Melissa Densmore, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Gareth Tyson, Nick Feamster. On the potential of Google AMP to promote local content in developing regions. In Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India (2019). [PDF]

    2018

63. Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson and Nishanth Sastry. Facebook (A)Live? Are live social broadcasts really broadcasts? In 27th Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France (2018). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 15%] [Honorable Mention Award - Best Paper in Track]
64. Damilola Ibosiola, Benjamin Steer, Alvaro Garcia-Recuero, Gianluca Stringhini, Steve Uhlig and Gareth Tyson. Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers. In 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Stanford, CA (2018). [PDF] [Conversation] [TorrentFreak] [EurekAlert] [Acceptance Rate: 16%]
65. Agustin Formoso, Josiah Chavula, Amreesh Phokeer, Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Gareth Tyson. Deep Diving into Africa's Inter-Country Latencies. In 37th IEEE Joint Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, HI (2018). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [Best Presentation in Track]
66. Minghao Zhao, Zhenhua Li, Ennan Zhai, Gareth Tyson, Chen Qian, Zhenyu Li, and Leiyu Zhao. H2Cloud: Maintaining the Whole Filesystem in an Object Storage Cloud. In 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Eugene, OR (2018). [PDF]
67. Kiran Garimella and Gareth Tyson. WhatApp Doc?: A first look at WhatsApp public group data. In 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Stanford, CA (2018). [PDF] [Code] [Outlook India] [BBC] [VentureBeat] [Hindustand Times] [First Post]

    2017

68. Gareth Tyson, Shan Huang, Felix Cuadrado, Ignacio Castro, Claudiu Perta, Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Steve Uhlig. Exploring HTTP Header Manipulation in the Wild. In 26th World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Perth, Australia (2017). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 17%]
69. Zafar Gilani, Reza Farahbakhsh, Gareth Tyson, Liang Wang and Jon Crowcroft. Of Bots and Humans (on Twitter). In 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia (2017). [PDF] [Daily Mail] [American News Report] [Wired] [Techmundo] [Acceptance Rate: 26%]
70. Jie Deng, Gareth Tyson, Felix Cuadrado and Steve Uhlig. Internet Scale User-Generated Live Video Streaming: The Twitch Case. In 18th Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Sydney, Australia (2017). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 23%]
71. Walid Magdy, Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson, Sagar Joglekar and Nishanth Sastry. Fake it till you make it: Fishing for Catfishes. In 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia (2017). [PDF] [BBC] [The Times] [Daily Mail] [Science Daily] [UPI] [Business Standard] [Acceptance Rate: 17%]
72. Jie Deng, Gareth Tyson, Felix Cuadrado and Steve Uhlig. Keddah: Capturing Hadoop Network Behaviour (Short Paper). In 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Atlanta, GA (2017). [PDF]

    2016

73. Roderick Fanou, Gareth Tyson, Pierre Francois and Arjuna Sathiaseelan. Pushing the Frontier: Exploring the African Web Ecosystem. In 25th World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Montreal, Canada (2016). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 16%]
74. Liang Wang, Gareth Tyson, Jussi Kangasharju and Jon Crowcroft. FairCache: Introducing Fairness to ICN Caching. In 24th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Singapore (2016). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 20%]
75. Gareth Tyson, Claudiu Perta, Hamed Haddadi and Michael Seto. A First Look at User Activity on Tinder. In 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San Francisco, CA (2016). [PDF] [Washington Post] [MIT Tech Review] [Mail Online] [Cosmpolitan] [Repubblica] [Independent] [Global Dating Insights] [Business Insider] [Acceptance Rate: 12%]
76. Martin Chorley, Luca Rossi, Gareth Tyson and Matthew Williams. Pub Crawling at Scale: Tapping Untappd to Explore Social Drinking. In 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Cologne, Germany (2016). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 17%]

    2015

77. Matthias Wahlisch, Robert Schmidt, Thomas Schmidt, Olaf Maennel, Steve Uhlig and Gareth Tyson. RiPKI: The Tragic Story of RPKI Deployment in the Web Ecosystem. In 15th ACM Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2015). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 18%]
78. Gareth Tyson, Yehia Elkhatib, Nishanth Sastry and Steve Uhlig. Are People Really Social on Porn 2.0? In Proc. of 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Oxford, UK (2015). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 19%]
79. Claudiu Perta, Marco Valerio Barbera, Gareth Tyson, Hamed Haddadi and Alessandro Mei. A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN Clients. In Proc. 15th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Philadelphia, PA (2015). [PDF] [The Register] [Wired] [BBC] [LifeHacker] [Slashdot] [Ars Technica] [Our Blog] [Acceptance Rate: 20%]

2014

80. Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson and Michel Welzl. Can SPDY Really Make the Web Faster? In Proc. 13th IFIP Networking Conference, Trondheim, Norway (2014). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 25%]
81. Samhar Mahmoud, Gareth Tyson, Simon Miles, Adel Taweel, Tjeerd Van-Staa, Michael Luck, Brendan Delaney. Multi-Agent System for Recruiting Patients for Clinical Trials. In Proc. 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Paris, France (2014). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 23%]

    2013

82. Gareth Tyson, Yehia Elkhatib, Nishanth Sastry and Steve Uhlig. Demystifying Porn 2.0: A look into a Major Adult Video Streaming Website. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Barcelona, Spain (2013). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 23%]
83. Yonggong Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Steve Uhlig and Gaogang Xie. Optimal Cache Allocation for Content-Centric Networking. In Proc. 21st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Gottingen, Germany (2013). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 18%]

    2012

84. Gareth Tyson, Sebastian Kaune, Simon Miles, Yehia ElKhatib, Andreas Mauthe and Adel Taweel. A Trace-Driven Analysis of Caching in Content-Centric Networks. In Proc. 21st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), Munich, Germany (2012). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 30%]
85. Mu Mu, Andreas Mauthe, Gareth Tyson, Eduardo Cerqueira. Statistical Analysis of Ordinal User Opinion Scores. In Proc. of IEEE 7th Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV (2012). [PDF]

    2010

86. Sebastian Kaune, Ruben Cuevas Rumin, Gareth Tyson, Andreas Mauthe, Carmen Guerrero and Ralf Steinmetz. Unraveling BitTorrent's File Unavailability:Measurements and Analysis . In Proc. IEEE 10th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer (P2P), Delft, Netherlands (2010). [PDF] [eprint] [Acceptance Rate: 22%]
87. Sebastian Kaune, Gareth Tyson, Konstantin Pussep, Andreas Mauthe, Aleksandra Kovacevic and Ralf Steinmetz. The Seeder Promotion Problem: Measurements, Analysis and Solution Space . In Proc. 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), Zurich, Switzerland (2010). [PDF] [eprint] [Acceptance Rate: 33%]
88. Gareth Tyson, Adam Lindsay, Steven Simpson and David Hutchison. Improving Wireless Sensor Network Resilience with the INTERSECTION Framework. In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless System, Barcelona, Spain (2010).[PDF] [eprint]

    2009

89. Gareth Tyson, Andreas Mauthe, Sebastian Kaune, Mu Mu and Thomas Plagemann. Corelli: A Peer-to-Peer Dynamic Replication Service for Supporting Latency-Dependent Content in Community Networks. In Proc. 16th ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN), San Jose, CA, USA (2009). [PDF] [eprint] [Acceptance Rate: 33%]
90. Mu Mu, Roswitha Gostner, Andreas Mauthe, Gareth Tyson and Francisco Garcia. Visibility of Individual Packet Loss on H.264 Encoded Video Stream - A User Study on the Impact of Packet Loss on Perceived Video Quality. In Proc. 16th ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN), San Jose, CA, USA (2009). [PDF] [eprint] [Acceptance Rate: 33%]
91. Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe, Gordon Blair and Sebastian Kaune. A Reflective Middleware to Support Peer-to-Peer Overlay Adaptation. In Proc. 9th IFIP InternationalConference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), Lisbon, Portugal (2009). [PDF] [eprint]. [Acceptance Rate: 36%]
92. Mu Mu, Andreas Mauthe, John Casson, Gareth Tyson andFrancisco Garcia. LA1 TestBed: Evaluation Testbed to Assess the Impact of Network Impairments on Video Quality. In Proc. 5th Euromicro International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM), Washington D.C., USA (2009). [PDF] [eprint]
93. Sebastian Kaune, Konstantin Pussep, Christof Leng, Aleksandra Kovacevic, Gareth Tyson and Ralf Steinmetz. Modelling the Internet Delay Space Based on Geographical Locations. In Proc. 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), Weimar, Germany (2009). [PDF] [eprint]

RFCs

1. Kostas Pentikousis, Borje Ohlman, Daniel Corujo, Gennaro Boggia, Gareth Tyson, Elwyn Davies, Dorothy Gellert and Priya Mahadevan. Information-centric Networking: Baseline Scenarios. RFC 7476. [link]

Posters

1. Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Vahid Ghafouri, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Ignacio Castro. Exploring online manifestations of real-world inequalities. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France (2022) [PDF]
2. Haris Bin Zia, Ignacio Castro, Arkaitz Zubiaga and Gareth Tyson. Improving Zero-shot Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection with pseudo-label fine-tuning of Transformer Language Models. In 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Atlanta, GA (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 36%]
3. Ruoxi Sun, Wei Wang, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson and Damith Ranasinghe. VenueTrace: A Privacy-by-Design COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing Solution. In ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Yokohama, Japan (2020).
4. Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson and Nishanth Sastry. Edge for the edge: How edge-centric architectures can benefit the developing countries. In ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), San Jose, CA (2018).
5. Zafar Gilani, Reza Farahbakhsh, Gareth Tyson and Jon Crowcroft. The implications of Twitterbot generated data traffic on networked systems. In ACM SIGCOMM, Los Angeles, CA (2017). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 36%]

Workshops and Other Papers

2023

1. Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Ravi Shekhar, Stephen McQuistin, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Colin Perkins, Patrick G.T. Healey and Matthew Purver. An Email Dataset for Analyzing Large-Group Decision-Making. In 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Findings of the ACL (ACL), Toronto, Canada (2023).
2. Wenrui Zuo, Aravind Raman, Raul Mondragon and Gareth Tyson. A First Look at User-Controlled Moderation on Web3 Social Media: The Case of Memo. cash. In 3rd Hypertext Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks (OASIS), Rome, Italy (2023).
3. Rui Ren, Yang Wang, Fengrui Liu, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Tianhao Miao and Gaogang Xie. Grace: Interpretable Root Cause Analysis by Graph Convolutional Network for Microservices. In IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service 2023 (IWQoS), Orlando, FL (2023). [Acceptance Rate: 27%]

   2022

4. Ehsan Ul Haq, Tristan Braud, Lik Hang Lee, Anish Krishna Vallapuram, Yue Yu, Gareth Tyson and Pan Hui. Short, Colorful, and Irreverent! A Comparative Analysis of New Users on WallstreetBets During the Gamestop Short-squeeze. In 31st ACM Web Conference, Industry Track (WWW), Lyon, France (2022).
5. Ehsan-Ul Haq, Gareth Tyson, Tristan Braud and Pan Hui. Weaponising Social Media for Information Divide and Warfare. In ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext), Blue Sky Session, Barcelona, Spain (2022).
6. Yimeng Gu, Ignacio Castro, and Gareth Tyson. MMVAE at SemEval-2022 Task 5: A Multi-modal Multi-task VAE on Misogynous Meme Detection. In 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2022).

   2021

7. Haris Bin Zia, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson. Racist or Sexist Meme? Classifying Memes beyond Hateful. In ACL Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), Bangkok, Thailand (2021). [PDF] [Winner of Gold Prize for Task B and Silver Prize for Task A in Facebook Shared Task on Hateful Memes]
8. Anaobi Ishaku, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro and Gareth Tyson. The Impact of Capitol Hill on Pleroma: The Case for Decentralised Moderation. In ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, Munich, Germany (2021).

   2020

9. Koosha Zarei, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi and Gareth Tyson. Impersonation on Social Media: A Deep Neural Approach to Identify Ingenuine Content (Short Paper). In 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), The Hague, Netherlands (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 21%] [PDF]
10. Koosha Zarei, Damilola Ibosiola, Reza Farahbakhsh, Zafar Gilani, Kiran Garimella, Noel Crespi and Gareth Tyson. Characterising and Detecting Sponsored Influencer Posts on Instagram (Short Paper). In 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), The Hague, Netherlands (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 21%] [PDF]
11. Steven Wilson, Waleed Magdy, Barbara McGillivray, Kiran Garimella, and Gareth Tyson. Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications. In 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France (2020).
12. Pengpeng Zhou, Yang Wang, Zhenyu Li, Xin Wang, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. LogSayer: Log Pattern-driven Cloud Component Anomaly Diagnosis with Machine Learning. In 28th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS). [Acceptance Rate: 29%].
13. Steven Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray and Gareth Tyson. Embedding Structured Dictionary Entries. In EMNLP Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP (INSIGHTS), Dominican Republic (2020).

    2018

14. Touseef Yaqoob, Muhammad Usama, Junaid Qadir, Gareth Tyson. On Analyzing Self-Driven Networking: A Systems Thinking Approach. In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Self-Driving Networks (SDN), Budapest, Hungary (2018). [PDF] [Acceptancee Rate: 54%]
15. Abdessalam Elhabbash, Gordon Blair, Gareth Tyson and Yehia Elkhatib. Network-conscious Edge Service Adaptation (Short Paper). In 14th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Rome, Italy (2018).

    2017

16. Yehia Elkhatib, Geoff Coulson and Gareth Tyson. Charting an Intent Driven Network (Short Paper). In 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Tokyo, Japan (2017). [PDF]
17. Dong Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Zhenhua Li and Gaogang Xie. Unbiased Sampling of Social Media Networks for Well-connected Subgraphs (Short Paper). In 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia (2017). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 26%]

    2015

18. Jie Deng, Felix Cuadrado, Gareth Tyson and Steve Uhlig. Behind the Game: Exploring the Twitch Streaming Platform. In IEEE 14th IEEE International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames). Zagreb, Croatia (2015). [PDF]
19. Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Liang Wang, Andrius Aucinas, Gareth Tyson and Jon Crowcroft. SCANDEX: Service Centric Networking for Challenged Decentralised Networks. In Proc. ACM MobiSys Workshop on Do-It-Yourself Networking (DIY), Florence, Italy (2015). [PDF]
20. Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson and Arjuna Sathiaseelan Does the Internet Deserve Everybody? In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research (2015). [PDF]
21. Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Gareth Tyson and Soumya Sen. Exploring the Role of Smart Data Pricing in Enabling Affordable Internet Access. In Proc. 4th IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP), Hong Kong (2015). [PDF]
22. Gareth Tyson, Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Jorg Ott. Could we Fit the Internet in a Box? In Proc. Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies Workshop (EGC), Almaty, Kazakhstan (2015). [PDF]

    2014

23. Martin Chapman, Gareth Tyson, Peter McBurney and Michael Luck. Playing Hide-and-Seek: An Abstract Game for Cyber Security. In Proc. AAMAS International Workshop on Agents and Cyber Security (ACySe), Paris, France (2014). [PDF]

    2013

24. Gareth Tyson, John Bigham and Eliane Bodanese. Towards an Information-Centric Delay-Tolerant Network. In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Emerging Design Choices in Name-Oriented Networking (NOMEN), Turin, Italy (2013). [PDF] [Acceptance Rate: 22%]

    2012

25. Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry, Ivica Rimac, Ruben Cuevas and Andreas Mauthe. A Survey of Mobility in Information-Centric Networks: Challenges and Research Directions. In Proc. ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Emerging Name-Oriented Mobile Networking Design (NOM), Hilton Head Island, SC (2012). [PDF]
26. Martin Chapman, Gareth Tyson, Katie Atkinson, Michael Luck, and Peter McBurney. Social Networking and Information Diffusion in Automated Markets. In Proc. AAMAS Joint Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (TADA/AMEC), Valencia, Spain (2012). [PDF]
27. Emilia Garcia, Gareth Tyson, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, Adel Taweel, Tjeerd Van Staa and Brendan Delaney. An Analysis of Agent-Oriented Engineering of e-Health Systems. In Proc. AAMAS Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE), Valencia, Spain (2012). [PDF]
28. Gareth Tyson, Adel Taweel, Maria Vargas-Vera, Tjeerd Van Staa and Brendan Delaney. ePCRN-IDEA2: An Agent-Based System for Large-Scale Clinical Trial Recruitment. In Proc. AAMAS Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC), Valencia, Spain (2012). [PDF]
29. Gareth Tyson, Andreas Mauthe, Sebastian Kaune, Paul Grace and Thomas Plagemann. Juno: An Adaptive Delivery-Centric Middleware. In Proc. IEEE CCNC International Workshop on Future Media Networking (FMN), Las Vegas, NV (2012). [PDF] [eprint]

    2011

30. Gareth Tyson, Adel Taweel, Steffen Zschaler, Tjeerd Van Staa and Brendan Delaney. A Model-Driven Approach to Interoperability and Integration in Systems of Systems. In Proc. 7th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications: Workshop on Model-Based Software and Data Integration (MBSDI), Birmingham, England (2011). [PDF] [eprint]

    2009

31. Yehia Elkhatib, Christopher Edwards, Michael Mackay and Gareth Tyson. Providing Grid Schedulers with Passive Network Measurements. In Proc. IEEE ICCCN Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer), San Francisco, CA (2009). [PDF] [eprint]

    2008

32. Sebastian Kaune, Konstatin Pussep, Gareth Tyson, Andreas Mauthe and Ralf Steinmetz. Cooperation in P2P Systems through Sociological Incentive Patterns. In Proc. 3rd International IEEE Workshop of Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS), Vienna, Austria (2008). [PDF] [eprint]
33. Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe and Sebastian Kaune. The Survival of the Fittest: An Evolutionary Approach to Deploying Adaptive Functionality in Peer-to-Peer Systems. In Proc. ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM), Leuven, Belgium (2008). [PDF] [eprint]
34. Gareth Tyson, Andreas Mauthe, Thomas Plagemann and Yehia Elkhatib. Juno: Reconfigurable Middleware for Heterogeneous Content Networking. In Proc. 5th International MANWEEK Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM), Samos Islands, Greece (2008). [PDF] [eprint]
35. Gareth Tyson and Andreas Mauthe. A Topology Aware Clustering Mechanism. In Proc. 8th EPSRC Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool, UK (2007). [eprint]

General Media

1. Gareth Tyson and Timm Boettger. DNS-over-HTTPS: why the web's latest privacy tech is causing an outcry. The Conversation (2019). [link]
2. Gareth Tyson. The rise of cyberlockers: how online piracy is fighting back. The Conversation (2018). [link]
3. Gareth Tyson. How Africa can develop a home-grown tech sector. The Conversation (2016). [link]
4. Gareth Tyson. Mesh networks and Firechat makes switching off the internet that much harder. The Conversation (2014). [link]

Book Chapters

1. Adel Taweel and Gareth Tyson. Prediction of Non-Functional Properties of Service-Based Systems: A Software Reliability Model. In Engineering Reliable Service Oriented Architecture: Managing Complexity and Service Level Agreements, IGI (2011). [Book Link]

Technical Reports

1. Damilola Ibosiola, Ignacio Castro, Gianluca Stringhini, Steve Uhlig and Gareth Tyson. A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis of DMCA Notices and Online Complaints (2019). [PDF]
2. Agustin Formoso, Josiah Chavula, Amreesh Phokeer, Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Gareth Tyson. Dissecting the African Internet: An Intra-Continental Study (2017). [PDF]
3. Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson and Geoff Coulson. Charting an Intent Driven Network (2016). [PDF]
4. Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry, Richard Mortier and Nick Feamster. Staggercast: Demand-Side Management for Access Networks (2016). [PDF]
5. Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson and Michel Welzl. The Effect of Network and Infrastructural Variables on SPDY's Performance. Technical Report SCC-2013-01, Lancaster University (2013). [PDF]
6. Gareth Tyson, Nicolas Troquard, Simon Parsons and Peter McBurney. Towards a graphical model of remote control of machines. Technical Report, King's College London (2012). [PDF]
7. Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Gordon Blair and Andreas Mauthe. Fine Grained Component Engineering of Adaptive Overlays: Experiences and Perspectives. Technical Report no. COMP-02-2009, Lancaster University (2009). [PDF][eprint]
8. Sebastian Kaune, Gareth Tyson, Andreas Mauthe, Nicolas Liebau and Ralf Steinmetz. Towards A Lightweight Incentive Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Systems. Technical Report no. KOM-TR-2008-2, Technische Universitat Darmstadt (2008). [PDF][eprint]

Theses

1. Gareth Tyson. A Middleware Approach to Building Content-Centric Applications. PhD Thesis, Lancaster University (2010). [PDF][eprint]
2. Gareth Tyson. Component Based Overlay Development in Gridkit. MSc Thesis, Lancaster University (2006).

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