Indian Institute of Information Technology

Dr. Nikhil Tripathi

Assistant Professor

Office Address:

302, 2nd Floor, Academic Building, Computer Science and Engineering Group
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City,
Chittoor Andhra Pradesh - 517 646, India

Academic Qualifications

Education:

Ph. D. (Computer Science and Engineering)
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Thesis Title: Novel Application Layer Denial-of-Service Attacks and Detection

M. Tech. (Information Technology)
University of Hyderabad
Thesis Title: An ARP-ICMP Probe Packet based Scheme to prevent ARP Poisoning and IP Exhaustion Attacks

Research Areas of Interest

Network Security, System Security, Computer Networks

Awards / Honours

  • Received an honourable mention for one of my research works presented at IEEE ANTS 2015 in ISI Kolkata.
  • Invited talk on one of my research works at Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Germany in September 2018.
  • 3rd best M.Tech research project award at IDRBT, Hyderabad in 2012.
  • Secured 98.14 percentile in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2012).

Projects

Publications

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs):

1. CVE-2018-8956 for a vulnerability disclosed by me in NTP protocol. More details at https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8956

International Journals:

1. Nikhil Tripathi, Neminath Hubballi, Application Layer Denial of Service Attacks and Defense Mechanisms: A Survey, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 54(4), 2021, pp: 1-33 (ACM).

2. Nikhil Tripathi, Neminath Hubballi. Preventing time synchronization in NTP broadcast mode. Computers \& Security, Volume 102, 2021, pp. 102-135 (Elsevier).

3. Nikhil Tripathi, Neminath Hubballi. Slow Rate Denial of Service Attacks against HTTP/2 and Detection, Computers \& Security, Volume 72, 2018, pp. 255-272 (Elsevier).

4. Nikhil Tripathi, Neminath Hubballi. Detecting Stealth DHCP Starvation Attack using Machine Learning Approach, Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, Volume 14, 2018, pp. 233-244 (Springer).

5. Neminath Hubballi, Nikhil Tripathi. An Event Based Technique for Detecting Spoofed IP Packets, Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 35, 2017, pp. 32-43 (Elsevier).

6. Neminath Hubballi, Nikhil Tripathi. A Closer Look into DHCP Starvation Attack in Wireless Networks, Computers \& Security, Volume 65, 2017, pp. 387-404 (Elsevier).

International Conferences:

1. Neminath Hubballi, Amey Kiran Patel, Amit Kumar Meena, Nikhil Tripathi, Cloud Security Service Level Agreements: Representation and Measurement, 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), Paris, 2019, pp. 145-150, IEEE.

2. Nikhil Tripathi, Neminath Hubballi, Yogendra Singh. How Secure are Web Servers? An Empirical Study of Slow HTTP DoS Attacks and Detection. 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'16), Salzburg, Austria, 2016, pp. 454-463 (IEEE).

3. Nikhil Tripathi, Mayank Swarnkar, Neminath Hubballi. DNS Spoofing in Local Networks Made Easy. 11th International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS'17), CVRCE Bhubaneswar, 2017, pp. 1-6 (IEEE).

4. Anuja Tayal, Neminath Hubballi, Nikhil Tripathi. Communication Recurrence and Similarity Detection in Network Flows. 11th International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS'17), CVRCE Bhubaneswar, 2017, pp. 1-6 (IEEE).

5. Mayank Swarnkar, Neminath Hubballi, Nikhil Tripathi, Mauro Conti. AppHunter: Mobile Application Traffic Classification, 12th International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS'18), Indore, 2018, pp. 1-6 (IEEE)

6. Nikhil Tripathi, Neminath Hubballi. A Probabilistic Anomaly Detection Scheme to Detect DHCP Starvation Attacks. 10th International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS'16), IISc Bangalore, 2016, pp. 1-6 (IEEE).

7. Nikhil Tripathi, Neminath Hubballi. Exploiting DHCP Server-side IP Address Conflict Detection: A DHCP Starvation Attack. 9th International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS'15), ISI Kolkata, 2015, pp. 1-3 (IEEE).

8. Nikhil Tripathi, B M Mehtre. Analysis of Various ARP Poisoning Mitigation Techniques: A Comparison. 1st International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT'14), Kanykaumari, 2014, pp. 125-132 (IEEE).

9. Nikhil Tripathi, B M Mehtre. An ICMP based Secondary Cache Approach for the Detection and Prevention of ARP Poisoning. 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC'13), Madurai, 2013, pp. 1-6 (IEEE).

Students

Teaching

Object Oriented Programming

Contact Information

Address for Communication:

302, 2nd Floor, Academic Building, Computer Science and Engineering Group
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City,
Chittoor Andhra Pradesh - 517 646, India