Arunan Sivanathan

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Arunan Sivanathan is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Arunan Sivanathan has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Arunan Sivanathan's work include Network Security and Intrusion Detection (15 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (11 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (10 papers). Arunan Sivanathan is often cited by papers focused on Network Security and Intrusion Detection (15 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (11 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (10 papers). Arunan Sivanathan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Sri Lanka and United States. Arunan Sivanathan's co-authors include Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Vijay Sivaraman, Adam Radford, Arun Vishwanath, Chamith Wijenayake, Minzhao Lyu and Ayyoob Hamza and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer, IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

In The Last Decade

Arunan Sivanathan

15 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Classifying IoT Devices in Smart Environments Using Netwo... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Classifying IoT Devices in Smart Environments Using Network Traffic Characteristics
    2018 498 citations Arunan Sivanathan, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili et al. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Arunan Sivanathan Australia 10 946 709 482 194 150 17 1.1k
Adam Radford Australia 6 840 0.9× 585 0.8× 385 0.8× 160 0.8× 145 1.0× 7 1.0k
Jinlin Wang China 10 1.1k 1.1× 1000 1.4× 489 1.0× 159 0.8× 52 0.3× 69 1.3k
Kangfeng Zheng China 11 630 0.7× 599 0.8× 308 0.6× 131 0.7× 91 0.6× 32 860
Nathan Shone United Kingdom 8 1.0k 1.1× 895 1.3× 577 1.2× 120 0.6× 56 0.4× 24 1.2k
Ítalo Cunha Brazil 18 964 1.0× 455 0.6× 163 0.3× 279 1.4× 99 0.7× 76 1.1k
Marwa Keshk Australia 12 620 0.7× 508 0.7× 304 0.6× 249 1.3× 74 0.5× 19 880
Mahdi Aiash United Kingdom 14 686 0.7× 201 0.3× 161 0.3× 181 0.9× 192 1.3× 64 818
Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis Denmark 14 655 0.7× 370 0.5× 357 0.7× 273 1.4× 58 0.4× 51 830
Nick Sullivan Australia 6 727 0.8× 522 0.7× 490 1.0× 221 1.1× 70 0.5× 11 911
Romain Fontugne Japan 15 581 0.6× 483 0.7× 151 0.3× 74 0.4× 78 0.5× 49 770

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arunan Sivanathan

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Sivanathan, Arunan, et al.. (2024). Unveiling Behavioral Transparency of Protocols Communicated by IoT Networked Assets. 39–44. 3 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, et al.. (2023). Programmable Active Scans Controlled by Passive Traffic Inference for IoT Asset Characterization. 19. 1–6. 3 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, et al.. (2022). PicP-MUD: Profiling Information Content of Payloads in MUD Flows for IoT Devices. 521–526. 3 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, et al.. (2021). PARVP. 10–16. 5 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, & Vijay Sivaraman. (2020). Detecting Behavioral Change of IoT Devices Using Clustering-Based Network Traffic Modeling. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(8). 7295–7309. 47 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, & Vijay Sivaraman. (2020). Managing IoT Cyber-Security Using Programmable Telemetry and Machine Learning. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 17(1). 60–74. 55 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, & Vijay Sivaraman. (2019). Inferring IoT Device Types from Network Behavior Using Unsupervised Clustering. 230–233. 31 indexed citations
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Gharakheili, Hassan Habibi, Arunan Sivanathan, Ayyoob Hamza, & Vijay Sivaraman. (2019). Network-Level Security for the Internet of Things: Opportunities and Challenges. Computer. 52(8). 58–62. 13 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, & Vijay Sivaraman. (2018). Can We Classify an IoT Device using TCP Port Scan?. 1–4. 33 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Adam Radford, et al.. (2018). Classifying IoT Devices in Smart Environments Using Network Traffic Characteristics. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 18(8). 1745–1759. 498 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sivanathan, Arunan, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Adam Radford, et al.. (2017). Characterizing and classifying IoT traffic in smart cities and campuses. 559–564. 251 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, et al.. (2017). Systematically Evaluating Security and Privacy for Consumer IoT Devices. UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). 1–6. 74 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, et al.. (2017). Experimental evaluation of cybersecurity threats to the smart-home. 1–6. 9 indexed citations
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Lyu, Minzhao, et al.. (2017). Quantifying the reflective DDoS attack capability of household IoT devices. 46–51. 61 indexed citations
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Sivanathan, Arunan, et al.. (2016). Low-cost flow-based security solutions for smart-home IoT devices. UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). 1–6. 58 indexed citations

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