publications

2024

  1. JCSS
    Net Loss: An econometric method to measure the impact of Internet shutdowns
    Tagat, Anirudh, Phokeer, Amreesh, and Kreitem, Hanna
    ACM J. Comput. Sustain. Soc. 2024
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  2. PAM
    A tale of two synergies: Uncovering RPKI practices for RTBH at IXPs
    Livadariu, Ioana, Fontugne, Romain, Phokeer, Amreesh, Candela, Massimo, and Massimiliano, Stucchi
    In Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2024
  3. NSDI
    A System to Detect Forged-Origin Hijacks
    Holterbach, Thomas, Alfroy, Thomas, Phokeer, Amreesh D., Dainotti, Alberto, and Pelsser, Cristel
    In 21th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24) 2024
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2023

  1. ACM IMC
    RoVista: Measuring and Analyzing the Route Origin Validation (ROV) in RPKI
    Li, Weitong, Lin, Zhexiao, Ashiq, Md Ishtiaq, Aben, Emile, Fontugne, Romain, Phokeer, Amreesh, and Chung, Taejoong
    In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference 2023
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  2. PAM
    RPKI Time-of-Flight: Tracking Delays in the Management, Control, and Data Planes
    Fontugne, Romain, Phokeer, Amreesh, Pelsser, Cristel, Vermeulen, Kevin, and Bush, Randy
    In Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2023
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2022

  1. Technical report
    African Open Source Digital Infrastructures: Evaluating the Landscape
    Johnson, David, Cloete, Laurens, Hadzic, Senka, Kiden, Sarah, Rens, Andrew, and Phokeer, Amreesh
    2022
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2021

  1. Technical report
    Measuring internet resilience in Africa (Mira)
    Phokeer, Amreesh, Chege, Kevin, Chavula, Josiah, Elmokashfi, Ahmed, and Gueye, Assane
    Internet Society 2021
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  2. PHD THESIS
    Improving content delivery in low-resource networks: A case study of the African Internet Ecosystem
    Phokeer, Amreesh Dev
    2021
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2020

  1. ACM IMC
    On Measuring RPKI Relying Parties
    Kristoff, John, Bush, Randy, Kanich, Chris, Michaelson, George, Phokeer, Amreesh, Schmidt, Thomas C, and Wahlisch, Matthias
    2020
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  2. AFRICOMM
    African nameservers revealed: Characterizing DNS authoritative nameservers
    Akanho, Yazid, Alassane, Malick, Houngbadji, Mike, and Phokeer, Amreesh
    2020
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  3. AFRICOMM
    A first look at the African s ccTLDs technical environment
    Arouna, Alfred, Phokeer, Amreesh, and Elmokashfi, Ahmed
    2020
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  4. ACM COMPASS
    iNethi Community Network: A first look at local and Internet traffic usage
    Phokeer, Amreesh, Hadzic, Senka, Nitschke, Eric, Van Zyl, Andre, Johnson, David, Densmore, Melissa, and Chavula, Josiah
    2020
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2019

  1. IEEE COMSNETS
    On the potential of Google AMP to promote local content in developing regions
    Phokeer, Amreesh, Chavula, Josiah, Johnson, David, Densmore, Melissa, Tyson, Gareth, Sathiaseelan, Arjuna, and Feamster, Nick
    2019
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  2. AFRICOMM
    State of internet measurement in Africa-A survey
    Isah, Musab, Phokeer, Amreesh, Chavula, Josiah, Elmokashfi, Ahmed, and Asrese, Alemnew Sheferaw
    2019
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2018

  1. IEEE INFOCOM
    Deep diving into africa s inter-country latencies
    Formoso, Agustin, Chavula, Josiah, Phokeer, Amreesh, Sathiaseelan, Arjuna, and Tyson, Gareth
    2018
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  2. AFRICOMM
    Internet development in Africa: a content use, hosting and distribution perspective
    Calandro, Enrico, Chavula, Josiah, and Phokeer, Amreesh
    2018
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  3. CPRSOUTH
    The impact of remote hosting on Internet performance
    Calandro, Enrico, Chavula, Josiah, and Phokeer, Amreesh
    2018
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  4. AFRICOMM
    Performance barriers to cloud services in Africa s public sector: A latency perspective
    Chavula, Josiah, Phokeer, Amreesh, and Calandro, Enrico
    2018
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2017

  1. ACM SIGMETRICS
    An empirical analysis of facebook s free basics
    Singh, Siddharth, Nanda, Vedant, Sen, Rijurekha, Ahmad, Sohaib, Sengupta, Satadal, Phokeer, Amreesh, Farooq, Zaid Ahmed, Khan, Taslim Arefin, Kumaragaguru, Ponnurangam, Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub, and others,
    2017
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  2. SIGCOMM CCR
    Inside the walled garden: Deconstructing facebook s free basics program [BEST CCR]
    Sen, Rijurekha, Ahmad, Sohaib, Phokeer, Amreesh, Farooq, Zaid Ahmed, Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub, Choffnes, David, and Gummadi, Krishna P
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2017
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  3. IEEE Africon
    Insight into Africa s country-level latencies [BEST PAPER]
    Chavula, Josiah, Phokeer, Amreesh, Formoso, Agustin, and Feamster, Nick
    2017
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2016

  1. IST Africa
    A survey of anti-spam mechanisms and their usage from a Regional Internet Registry s perspective
    Phokeer, Amreesh, and Aina, Alain
    2016
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  2. ACM IMC
    On the free bridge across the digital divide: Assessing the quality of facebook s free basics service
    Sen, Rijurekha, Pirzada, Hasnain Ali, Phokeer, Amreesh, Farooq, Zaid Ahmed, Sengupta, Satadal, Choffnes, David, and Gummadi, Krishna P
    2016
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  3. IEEE ISTAS
    TownshipNet: A localized hybrid TVWS-WiFi and cloud services network
    Hadzic, Senka, Phokeer, Amreesh, and Johnson, David
    2016
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  4. ACMDEV
    A first look at mobile internet use in township communities in South Africa
    Phokeer, Amreesh, Densmore, Melissa, Johnson, David, and Feamster, Nick
    2016
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  5. AFRICOMM
    DNS Lame delegations: A case-study of public reverse DNS records in the African Region
    Phokeer, Amreesh, Aina, Alain, and Johnson, David
    2016
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