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D-Index
57
Citations
22531
World Ranking
3740
National Ranking
1786

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to network forensics, security, and privacy, and for thwarting crimes against children

Overview

Brian Neil Levine is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the field of Computer Science, with specific work in multiple subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Transportation, Information Systems, Strategy and Management, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Their recent published papers include:

  • ZipPhone: Protecting user location privacy from cellular service providers (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Pricing Security in Proof-of-Work Systems (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))

Levine's research topics cover a range of subjects. Key topics addressed in their work are:

  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Traffic control and management

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), which has hosted multiple papers from their research.

Levine collaborates with various co-authors across their projects. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Keen Sung
  • Mariya Zheleva
  • George Bissias
  • Rainer Böhme
  • David Thibodeau

Their work has been recognized by professional organizations, notably with the award of ACM Fellow in 2020, with the citation highlighting contributions to network forensics, security, privacy, and efforts addressing crimes against children.

Best Publications

  • MaxProp: Routing for Vehicle-Based Disruption-Tolerant Networks

    J. Burgess;B. Gallagher;D. Jensen;B. N. Levine

  • A secure routing protocol for ad hoc networks

    K. Sanzgiri;B. Dahill;B.N. Levine;C. Shields

  • A survey of practical issues in underwater networks

    Jim Partan;Jim Kurose;Brian Neil Levine

  • DTN routing as a resource allocation problem

    Aruna Balasubramanian;Brian Levine;Arun Venkataramani

  • Deployment issues for the IP multicast service and architecture

    C. Diot;B.N. Levine;B. Lyles;H. Kassem

  • MV routing and capacity building in disruption tolerant networks

    B. Burns;O. Brock;B.N. Levine

  • MORA routing and capacity building in disruption-tolerant networks

    Brendan Burns;Oliver Brock;Brian Neil Levine

  • Inferring the source of encrypted HTTP connections

    Marc Liberatore;Brian Neil Levine

  • Study of a bus-based disruption-tolerant network: mobility modeling and impact on routing

    Xiaolan Zhang;Jim Kurose;Brian Neil Levine;Don Towsley

  • Timing Attacks in Low-Latency Mix Systems

    Brian N. Levine;Michael K. Reiter;Chenxi Wang;Matthew Wright

  • Authenticated routing for ad hoc networks

    K. Sanzgiri;D. LaFlamme;B. Dahill;B.N. Levine

  • Wearable computers as packet transport mechanisms in highly-partitioned ad-hoc networks

    J.A. Davis;A.H. Fagg;B.N. Levine

  • A Survey of Solutions to the Sybil Attack

    Brian Neil Levine;Clay Shields;N. Boris Margolin

  • A protocol for anonymous communication over the Internet

    Clay Shields;Brian Neil Levine

  • Interactive wifi connectivity for moving vehicles

    Aruna Balasubramanian;Ratul Mahajan;Arun Venkataramani;Brian Neil Levine

  • Privacy vulnerabilities in encrypted HTTP streams

    George Dean Bissias;Marc Liberatore;David Jensen;Brian Neil Levine

  • Availability and locality measurements of peer-to-peer file systems

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  • Cheat-proof playout for centralized and distributed online games

    N.E. Baughman;B.N. Levine

  • Capacity Enhancement using Throwboxes in DTNs

    Wenrui Zhao;Yang Chen;Mostafa Ammar;Mark Corner

  • The predecessor attack: An analysis of a threat to anonymous communications systems

    Matthew K. Wright;Micah Adler;Brian Neil Levine;Clay Shields

  • Relays, base stations, and meshes: enhancing mobile networks with infrastructure

    Nilanjan Banerjee;Mark D. Corner;Don Towsley;Brian N. Levine

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Kurose
Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Amherst
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz
Micah Adler
Micah Adler University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arun Venkataramani
Arun Venkataramani University of Massachusetts Amherst
Erik Learned-Miller
Erik Learned-Miller University of Massachusetts Amherst
Don Towsley
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gerome Miklau
Gerome Miklau University of Massachusetts Amherst
W. Bruce Croft
W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts Amherst
Janis Wolak
Janis Wolak University of New Hampshire
Oliver Brock
Oliver Brock Technical University of Berlin

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