For over two decades the group was Distributed Network Analysis, and its work shaped how the Internet is modeled, defended, and paid for. It was renamed QuAINt in 2026. A few landmarks:
2000
Fluid-based analysis of TCP and Active Queue Management
A differential-equation model of TCP/RED that became a standard tool for reasoning about congestion control. ACM SIGCOMM.
2002
SOS & WebSOS: overlay defense against denial-of-service
An architecture using secure overlays to keep services reachable under DDoS. ACM SIGCOMM / IEEE JSAC.
2006
Growth Codes: data persistence in sensor networks
Coding that maximizes information recovered from a dying network. ACM SIGCOMM.
2010
The Shapley value for ISP settlement
A cooperative-game account of how interconnected ISPs should share revenue. IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking.
2015
Routing Money, Not Packets. Revisiting network neutrality
The neutrality fight, rewritten as a question of who pays whom. Communications of the ACM.