Summary
I work as Assistant Professor at University College London (UCL). I am affiliated with the Electronic & Electrical Engineering Department and member of the UCL’s Academic Center of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). I am Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College London.
My research interests are IoT, privacy, security, networking and Internet measurement techniques. I study privacy implications and information exposure from IoT devices. I work on the problem of modelling, designing, and evaluating adaptation strategies based on Internet measurements techniques.
NEWS
Our team went through Phase 2 of the InnovateUK CyberASAP programme. We got funds for developing a PoC ready to present at a Demo Day in February.
Our team has recently won one of the TOP 5 spots in the Telekom Challenge Development Stream, receiving a generous gift to develop a prototype for the blocking system, IoTrim.
Our Paper Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach won the community contribution award at IMC'19 because “the dataset was timely, has high potential for impact, and was challenging to obtain.” Check out our data and code here: https://moniotrlab.ccis.neu.edu/imc19/
publications
Rapid IoT Device Identification at the Edge
Oliver Thompson, Anna Maria Mandalari, Hamed Haddadi
Proceedings on the 2nd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning, co-located with CoNEXT 2021.
Revisiting IoT Device Identification
Roman Kolcun, Diana Andreea Popescu, Vadim Safronov, Poonam Yadav, Anna Maria Mandalari, Richard Mortier, Hamed Haddadi
Proceedings on TMA 2021.
Blocking without Breaking: Identification and Mitigation of Non-Essential IoT Traffic
Anna Maria Mandalari, Daniel J. Dubois, Roman Kolcun, Muhammad Talha Paracha, David Choffnes, Hamed Haddadi
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2021.
Measuring Roaming in Europe: Infrastructure and Implications on Users QoE Andra Lutu, Martino Trevisan, Ali Safari Khatouni, Anna Maria Mandalari, Ana Custura, Marco Mellia, Ozgu Alay, Marcelo Bagnulo, Vaibhav Bajpai, Anna Brunstrom, Joerg Ott, Gorry Fairhurst
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2021.
A Haystack Full of Needles: Scalable Detection of IoT Devices in the Wild Said Jawad Saidi, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann
Proc. of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2020.
When Speakers Are All Ears: Characterizing Misactivations of IoT Smart Speakers
Daniel J. Dubois, Roman Kolcun, Anna Maria Mandalari, Muhammad Talha Paracha, David Choffnes, Hamed Haddadi
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2020.
Towards Automatic Identification and Blocking of Non-Critical IoT Traffic Destinations
Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes
IEEE S&P Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’20).
Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach [Community Contribution Award!]
Jingjing Ren, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi
Proc. of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2019.
Experience: Implication of Roaming in Europe
Anna Maria Mandalari, Andra Lutu,Ana Custura, Ali Safari Khatouni, Ozgu Alay,
Marcelo Bagnulo, Vaibhav Bajpai, Anna Brunstrom, Joerg Ott, Marco Mellia, Gorry Fairhurst
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Oct 2018, New Delhi, India.
Measuring ECN : Good News for , Bad News for ECN over Mobile
Anna Maria Mandalari, Andra Lutu, Bob Briscoe, Marcelo Bagnulo, Ozgu Alay
IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2018.
Tracking the Big NAT across Europe and the U.S
Anna Maria Mandalari, Andra Lutu, Amogh Dhamdhere, Marcelo Bagnulo, KC Claffy Apr 2017.
NATwatcher: Profiling NATs in the Wild
Anna Maria Mandalari, Miguel Angel Diaz Bautista, Francisco Valera, Marcelo Bagnulo
IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2017.
TCP Fast Open initial measurements
Anna Maria Mandalari, Marcelo Bagnulo, Andra Lutu
ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, Dec 2015, Heidelberg, Germany.
Informing Protocol Design Through Crowdsourcing: the Case of Pervasive Encryption [Best paper award at C2B(I)D 2015!]
Anna Maria Mandalari, Marcelo Bagnulo, Andra Lutu
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data (C2B(I)D), Aug 2015, London, UK.
Duty-Cycle Optimization for Machine-to-Machine Area Networks Based on Frame Slotted-ALOHA with Energy Harvesting Capabilities
Orazio Briante, Anna Maria Mandalari, Antonella Molinaro, Giuseppe Ruggeri, Jesus Alonso-Zarate, Francisco Vazquez-Gallego
European Wireless 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
Performance Evaluation of Reservation Frame Slotted-ALOHA for Data Collection M2M Networks
Francisco Vazquez-Gallego, Jesus Alonso-Zarate, Anna Maria Mandalari, Orazio Briante, Antonella Molinaro, Giuseppe Ruggeri
European Wireless 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
Publications
Journals
Bagnulo M, García-Martínez A, Mandalari AM, et al., 2023, Design, implementation and validation of a receiver-driven less-than-best-effort transport, Computer Networks, Vol:233, ISSN:1389-1286
Mandalari AM, Lutu A, Custura A, et al., 2022, Measuring Roaming in Europe: Infrastructure and Implications on Users' QoE, Ieee Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol:21, ISSN:1536-1233, Pages:3687-3699
Conference
Anselmi G, Mandalari AM, Lazzaro S, et al., 2023, Poster: COPSEC: Compliance-Oriented IoT Security and Privacy Evaluation Framework, Pages:6-7
Hadjixenophontos S, Mandalari AM, Zhao Y, et al., 2023, PRISM: privacy preserving healthcare Internet of Things security management, 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), IEEE, ISSN:2642-7389
Mandalari AM, Haddadi H, Dubois DJ, et al., 2023, Protected or porous: a comparative analysis of threat detection capability of IoT safeguards, 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), IEEE Computer Society, Pages:3061-3078, ISSN:1081-6011