Publications in Scientific Journals


Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Fares Meghdouri, E389-01; Robert Annessi, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, F. Meghdouri, R. Annessi, T. Zseby:
"CCgen: Injecting Covert Channels into Network Traffic";
Security And Communication Networks, 2022 (2022), 1 - 11.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Arthur Zimek

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby, A. Zimek:
"Clustering Refinement";
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 12 (2021), 4; 333 - 353.

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Authors: Fares Meghdouri, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Meghdouri, F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Modeling Data with Observers";
Intelligent Data Analysis, 26 (2021), 3; 785 - 803.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Daniel C. Ferreira, E389-01; Gernot Vormayr, E389-01; Maximilian Bachl, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, D. Ferreira, G. Vormayr, M. Bachl, T. Zseby:
"NTARC: A Data Model for the Systematic Review of Network Traffic Analysis Research";
Applied Sciences, 10 (2020), 12:4307; 23 pages.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Pattern Discovery in Internet Background Radiation";
IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 5 (2019), 4; 467 - 480.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Daniel C. Ferreira, E389-01; Arthur Zimek

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby, D. Ferreira, A. Zimek:
"MDCGen: Multidimensional Dataset Generator for Clustering";
Journal of Classification, * (2019), 20 pages.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Arthur Zimek

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby, A. Zimek:
"Absolute Cluster Validity";
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 42 (2019), 9; 2096 - 2112.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Jelena Milosevic, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, J. Milosevic, T. Zseby:
"Fuzzy classification boundaries against adversarial network attacks";
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 368 (2018), 20 - 35.

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Authors: Fares Meghdouri, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01

F. Meghdouri, T. Zseby, F. Iglesias Vazquez:
"Analysis of Lightweight Feature Vectors for Attack Detection in Network Traffic";
Applied Sciences, 8 (2018), 11; 16 pages.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Robert Annessi, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, R. Annessi, T. Zseby:
"Analytic Study of Features for the Detection of Covert Timing Channels in Network Traffic";
Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, 6 (2017), 3; 225 - 270.

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Authors: Zdenek Martinasek, BrnoTU; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Lukas Malina, BrnoTU; Josef Martinasek, BrnoTU

Z. Martinasek, F. Iglesias Vazquez, L. Malina, J. Martinasek:
"Crucial pitfall of DPA Contest V4.2 Implementation";
Security And Communication Networks, 9 (2017), 18; 6094 - 6110.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Robert Annessi, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, R. Annessi, T. Zseby:
"DAT detectors: uncovering TCP/IP covert channels by descriptive analytics";
Security And Communication Networks, 9 (2016), 15; 3011 - 3029.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Time-activity footprints in IP traffic";
Computer Networks, 107 (2016), 1; 64 - 75.

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Authors: Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Valentin Bernhardt, E389-01; Davor Frkat, E389-01; Robert Annessi, E389-01

T. Zseby, F. Iglesias Vazquez, V. Bernhardt, D. Frkat, R. Annessi:
"A Network Steganography Lab on Detecting TCP/IP Covert Channels";
IEEE Transactions on Education, 59 (2016), 3; 224 - 232.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Analysis of network traffic features for anomaly detection";
Machine Learning, 101 (2015), 1; 59 - 84.

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Authors: Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Alistair King; K.C. Claffy

T. Zseby, F. Iglesias Vazquez, A. King, K. Claffy:
"Teaching Network Security With IP Darkspace Data";
IEEE Transactions on Education, 59 (2015), 1; 1 - 7.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Entropy-Based Characterization of Internet Background Radiation";
Entropy, 17 (2014), 1; 74 - 101.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner:
"Analysis of similarity measures in times series clustering for the discovery of building energy patterns";
ENERGIES, 6 (2013), 2; 579 - 597.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03; Mario Kofler, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner, M. Kofler:
"Holistic smart home models for air quality and thermal comfort management";
International Journal of Intelligent Decision Technologies, 7 (2013), 1; 23 - 43.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Peter Palensky

F. Iglesias Vazquez, P. Palensky:
"Profile-based control for central domestic hot water distribution";
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 10 (2013), 1; 697 - 705.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Peter Palensky; Sergio Cantos; Friederich Kupzog, AIT

F. Iglesias Vazquez, P. Palensky, S. Cantos, F. Kupzog:
"Demand side management for stand-alone hybrid power systems based on load identification";
ENERGIES, 5 (2012), 11; 4517 - 4532.

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Authors: Christian Reinisch, E191-03; Mario Jerome Kofler; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03

C. Reinisch, M. J. Kofler, F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner:
"ThinkHome Energy Efficiency in Future Smart Homes";
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, 2011 (2011), 18.

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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry)


Authors: Fares Meghdouri, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Meghdouri, F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Shedding Light in the Tunnel: Counting Flows in Encrypted Network Traffic";
Talk: 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Auckland, New Zealand; 12-07-2021 - 12-10-2021; in: "IEEE ICDM Workshop on Data Mining and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity", IEEE, (2021), 798 - 804.

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Authors: Fares Meghdouri, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Meghdouri, F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Anomaly Detection for Mixed Packet Sequences";
Talk: 45th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney, Australia; 11-16-2020 - 11-19-2020; in: "Proceedings of the 45th LCN Symposium 2020", (2020), ISBN: 978-1-7281-8314-5; 120 - 130.

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Authors: Alexander Hartl, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

A. Hartl, F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"SDOstream: Low-Density Models for Streaming Outlier Detection";
Poster: 28th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges, Belgium; 10-02-2020 - 10-04-2020; in: "ESANN 2020 - Proceedings", i6doc.com, Belgium (2020), ISBN: 978-2-87587-074-2; 661 - 666.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Arthur Zimek

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby, A. Zimek:
"Interpretability and Refinement of Clustering";
Talk: IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), Sydney, Australia; 09-06-2020 - 09-09-2020; in: "Proceedings of the 7th DSAA 2020", (2020), ISBN: 978-1-7281-8206-3; 21 - 29.

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Authors: Fares Meghdouri, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Meghdouri, F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Cross-Layer Profiling of Encrypted Network Data for Anomaly Detection";
Talk: IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), Sydney, Australia; 09-06-2020 - 09-09-2020; in: "Proceedings of the 7th DSAA 2020", (2020), ISBN: 978-1-7281-8206-3; 469 - 478.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Denis Ojdanic; Alexander Hartl, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, D. Ojdanic, A. Hartl, T. Zseby:
"MDCStream: Stream Data Generator for Testing Analysis Algorithms";
Talk: EAI Valuetools 2020, Tsukuba, Japan; 05-18-2020 - 05-20-2020; in: "Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools", Association for Computing Machinery, Tsukuba, Japan (2020), ISBN: 9781450376464; 56 - 63.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Alexander Hartl, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Arthur Zimek

F. Iglesias Vazquez, A. Hartl, T. Zseby, A. Zimek:
"Are Network Attacks Outliers? A Study of Space Representations and Unsupervised Algorithms";
Talk: MLCS Workshop on Machine Learning for CyberSecurity, ECMLPKDD, Würzburg, Germany; 09-16-2019 - 09-20-2019; in: "ECML PKDD 2019: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases", Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1168 (2020), ISBN: 978-3-030-43887-6; 159 - 175.

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Authors: Daniel C. Ferreira, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

D. Ferreira, F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Extreme Dimensionality Reduction for Network Attack Visualization with Autoencoders";
Talk: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN, Budapest; 07-14-2019 - 07-19-2019; in: "Proceedings of the 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)", (2019), ISSN: 2161-4393; 1 - 10.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Arthur Zimek

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby, A. Zimek:
"Outlier Detection Based on Low Density Models";
Talk: ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA-2018), IEEE Internation Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2018), Singapore; 11-17-2018 - 11-20-2018; in: "IEEE ICDM 2018 Workshops Proceedings", IEEE Computer Society Press, (2018), 970 - 979.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Valentin Bernhardt, E389-01; Robert Annessi, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, V. Bernhardt, R. Annessi, T. Zseby:
"Decision Tree Rule Induction for Detecting Covert Timing Channels in TCP/IP Traffic";
Talk: CD-MAKE 2017: IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction, Reggio di Calabria, Italy; 08-29-2017 - 09-01-2017; in: "Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction: First IFIP TC 5, WG 8.4, 8.9, 12.9 International Cross-Domain Conference", (2017), 1 - 19.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Are Network Covert Timing Channels Statistical Anomalies?";
Talk: ARES Conference 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy; 08-29-2017 - 09-01-2017; in: "Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'17), Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUIng)", (2017), 1 - 9.

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Authors: Daniel Luis Cavaco Ferreira, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Gernot Vormayr, E389-01; Maximilian Bachl, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

D. Cavaco Ferreira, F. Iglesias Vazquez, G. Vormayr, M. Bachl, T. Zseby:
"A Meta-Analysis Approach for Feature Selection in Network Traffic Research";
Talk: Acm Sigcomm 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 08-21-2017 - 08-25-2017; in: "Proceedings of the Reproducibility Workshop (Reproducibility´17, ACM SIGCOMM)", (2017), 1 - 4.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Tanja Zseby, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez, T. Zseby:
"Modelling IP darkspace traffic by means of clustering techniques";
Talk: Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2014 IEEE Conference on, San Francisco, USA; 10-29-2014 - 10-31-2014; in: "IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)", San Francisco (2014), Paper ID 166-174, 9 pages.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner:
"A Global Approach of Habit Profiles for Smart Home Control";
Talk: 13th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambéry, France; 08-25-2013 - 08-28-2013; in: "Proceedings BS2013", (2013), Paper ID 1032, 8 pages.

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Authors: Mario Kofler, E191-03; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03

M. Kofler, F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner:
"An ontology for representation of user habits and building context in future smart homes";
Talk: 20th Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Vienna; 06-30-2013 - 07-03-2013; in: "Proceedings EG-ICE 2013", (2013), 1 - 10.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner:
"Detecting user dissatisfaction in ambient intelligence environments";
Talk: 17th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Krakow, Poland; 09-17-2012 - 09-21-2012; in: "Proceedings IEEE 17th Conference on Emerging Technologies Factory Automation (ETFA)", (2012), 4 pages.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner:
"Thermal comfort support application for smart home control";
Talk: 3rd International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2012), Salamanca, Spain; 05-28-2012 - 05-30-2012; in: "Proceeedings 3rd International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2012)", Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications, volume 153 of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (2012), ISBN: 978-3-642-28782-4; 109 - 118.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03; Sergio Cantos Gaceo; Christian Reinisch, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner, S. Gaceo, C. Reinisch:
"Electricity Load Management in Smart Home Control";
Talk: 12th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Sydney, Australia; 11-14-2011 - 11-16-2011; in: "12th Conference of 12th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association", (2011), 957 - 964.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03; Sergio Cantos Gaceo; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03; José A. Montero Morales

F. Iglesias Vazquez, S. Gaceo, W. Kastner, J. Morales:
"Behavioral Profiles for Building Energy Performance Using eXclusive SOM";
Talk: Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, Corfu, Greece; 09-15-2011 - 09-18-2011; in: "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology", (2011), ISBN: 978-3-642-23956-4; 31 - 40.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03; Christian Reinisch, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner, C. Reinisch:
"Impact of user habits in smart home control";
Talk: 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2011), Toulouse, France; 09-05-2011 - 09-09-2011; in: "16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation", (2011), 8 pages.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner:
"Clustering methods for occupancy prediction in smart home control";
Talk: 21st IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2011), Gdansk, Poland; 06-27-2011 - 06-30-2011; in: "Proceedings ISIE 2011", IEEE, (2011), ISBN: 978-1-4244-9312-8; 1321 - 1328.

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Authors: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03; Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03

F. Iglesias Vazquez, W. Kastner:
"Usage Profiles for Sustainable Buildings";
Talk: IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Bilbao, Spain; 09-13-2010 - 09-16-2010; in: "15th IEEE Conference on Emerging Techonologies and Factory Automation", (2010), 1 - 8.

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Authors: Sergio Cantos; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01; Jordina Vidal

S. Cantos, F. Iglesias Vazquez, J. Vidal:
"Comparison of standard and case-based user profiles in building's energy performance simulation";
Talk: 11th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, Glasgow, Scotland; 07-27-2009 - 07-30-2009; in: "Proceedings BS2009", (2009), 7 pages.

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Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry)


Author: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez:
"Methodology for Data Analysis and Machine Learning Application";
Talk: Network Traffic Analysis and Anomaly Detection, Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (TGI) Course, Waterford, Ireland (invited); 01-28-2016 - 02-02-2016.

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Author: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez:
"Knowledge Discovery by Cluster Analysis";
Talk: The Department of Computer Architecture (DAC), The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Barcelona, Spain (invited); 07-17-2015.

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Authors: Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01

T. Zseby, F. Iglesias Vazquez:
"Teaching Network Security with IP Darkspace Data";
Talk: 2nd International Workshop on Darkspace and UnSolicited Traffic Analysis (DUST 2019), San Diego, CA, USA (invited); 05-14-2012 - 05-15-2012.

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Doctor's Theses (authored and supervised)


Author: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E191-03
Other persons involved: Wolfgang Kastner, E191-03; Dietmar Dietrich, E384

F. Iglesias Vazquez:
"Smart Home Control Based on Behavioural Profiles";
Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Kastner, D. Dietrich; E384, 2012; oral examination: 12-17-2012.

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Diploma and Master Theses (authored and supervised)


Author: Denis Ojdanic
Other persons involved: Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01

D. Ojdanic:
"MDCStream: A Stream Dataset Generator for Testing and Evaluating Stream Data Analysis Algorithms";
Supervisor: T. Zseby, F. Iglesias Vazquez; E389, 2019; final examination: 11-21-2019.

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Author: Fares Meghdouri, E389-01
Other persons involved: Tanja Zseby, E389-01; Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01

F. Meghdouri:
"Comparison of Feature Sets for Detecting Attacks in Network Traffic";
Supervisor: T. Zseby, F. Iglesias Vazquez; E389, 2018; final examination: 07-25-2018.

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Non-textual Scientific Publications


Author: Felix Iglesias Vazquez, E389-01

F. Iglesias Vazquez:
"Data for Evaluation of Stream Data Analysis Algorithms";
Publication type: Mendeley Data, project: Streaming Data Analysis; 2021.

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