Alden Jackson
Associate Clinical Professor
Research interests
- Software-defined network architecture
- Network security
Education
- PhD, University of Delaware
Biography
Alden Jackson is an associate clinical professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He is interested in software-defined network architecture, network security, reliability and robustness of massively distributed systems, network protocol design and implementation, and network traffic analysis and monitoring.
Before joining Northeastern, Jackson was a senior architect at Akamai Technologies. He was responsible for improving the scalability and reliability of the systems that safely distributed customer and system configuration metadata in Akamai's production network to over 200,000 servers worldwide. Before he worked with Akamai, Jackson was a senior network scientist at BBN Technologies. He also worked at Sandia National Laboratories, where he was a principal investigator on US Government (DARPA, DHS HSARPA, AFOSR, DOE) and commercially funded R&D projects in the areas of attack traceback, network traffic analysis and monitoring, network security, active networking, software-defined network architecture, high-speed network architecture, satellite packet switching, and optical network control plane.
Recent publications
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Rebound: Decoy routing on asymmetric routes via error messages
Citation: D. Ellard, C. Jones, V. Manfredi, W. T. Strayer, B. Thapa, M. Van Welie and A. Jackson, "Rebound: Decoy routing on asymmetric routes via error messages," 2015 IEEE 40th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Clearwater Beach, FL, 2015, pp. 91-99. -
Decoy Routing: Toward Unblockable Internet Communication
Citation: J. Karlin, D. Ellard, A. W. Jackson, C. E. Jones, G. Lauer, D. P. Mankins, and W. T. Strayer. Decoy Routing: Toward Unblockable Internet Communication. In USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, Aug. 2011 -
PHAROS: An Architecture for Next-generation Core Optical Networks
Citation: I. Baldine, A. W. Jackson, J. Jacob, W. Leland, J. Lowry, W. Milliken, P. Pal, S. Ramanathan, K. Rauschenbach, C. Santivanez, and D. Wood, “PHAROS: An Architecture for Next-generation Core Optical Networks,” in Next Generation Internet Architectures and Protocols, B. Ramamurthy, G. Rouskas, and K. Sivalingam (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 154-178, 2011.
