PhD Student
University of California, San Diego
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Systems and Networking Group
E-mail: mvrable@cs.ucsd.edu
Office: CSE (EBU3B) 3144 Phone: (858) 534-8173
Advisors: Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage.
I currently work as part of the Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses on mechanisms for early detection and behavioral study of Internet worms. Towards this end, I am helping in the construction of a large-scale honeyfarm.
My current research focuses on virtual machines, and in particular the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor, where I am implementing fast virtual machine cloning for honeypots, including copy-on-write sharing of memory pages between virtual machines.
XFI: Software Guards for System Address Spaces Úlfar Erlingsson, Martín Abadi, Michael Vrable, Mihai Budiu, and George C. Necula. Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Seattle, WA, November 2006.
Scalability, Fidelity, and Containment in the Potemkin Virtual Honeyfarm [presentation] Michael Vrable, Justin Ma, Jay Chen, David Moore, Erik Vandekieft, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP), Brighton, UK, October 2005.
Brief Announcement: The Overlay Network Content Distribution Problem Chip Killian, Michael Vrable, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, and Joseph Pasquale. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Las Vegas, NV, July 2005.