Ronaldo Alves Ferreira - Publications

Ronaldo Alves Ferreira
Professor of Computer Science
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
College of Computing (FACOM)

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Networking

François Wirz, Marten Gartner, Jelte van Bommel, Elham Ehsani Moghadam, Grace H. Cimaszewski, Anxiao He, Yizhe Zhang, Henry Birge-Lee, Felix Kottmann, Cyrill Krähenbühl, Jonghoon Kwon. Kyveli Mavromati, Liang Wang, Daniel Bertolo, Marco Canini, Buseung Cho, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Simon Peter Green, David Hausheer, Junbeom Hur, Xiaohua Jia, Heejo Lee, Prateek Mittal, Omo Oaiya, Chanjin Park, Adrian Perrig, Jerry Sobieski, Yixin Sun, Cong Wang, and Klaas Wierenga. Scaling SCIERA: A Journey Through the Deployment of a Next-Generation Network. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'25, Coimbra, Portugal, pages 1-23, September 8-11, 2025.
Brivaldo A. da Silva Junior, Adriano B. de Carvalho, Ítalo Cunha, Timur Friedman, Ethan Katz-Bassett, and Ronaldo A. Ferreira. Uncovering BGP Action Communities and Community Squatters in the Wild. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS'25, Stony Brook, NY, USA, pages 1-23, June 6-10, 2025.
Arthur Selle Jacobs, Ricardo José Pfitscher, Rafael Hengen Ribeiro, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Ronaldo Alves Ferreira, Walter Willinger, and Sanjay G Rao. Establishing Trust for Using Natural Language for Intent-Based Networking. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025.
Walter Willinger, Ronaldo A Ferreira, Arpit Gupta, Roman Beltiukov, Satyandra Guthula, Lisandro Z Granville, and Arthur S Jacobs. When Something Looks Too Good To Be True, It Usually Is! AI Is Causing A Credibility Crisis In Networking. In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 55, no. 1, pp. 10-15, Jan. 2025.

Fabrício B. Carvalho, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Ítalo Cunha, Marcos A. M. Vieira, and Murali K. Ramanathan. State Disaggregation for Dynamic Scaling of Network Functions In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 32, no. 1, pp. 81-95, Feb. 2024.
Walter Willinger, Arpit Gupta, Arthur S. Jacobs, Roman Beltiukov, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, and Lisandro Granville. A NetAI Manifesto (Part I): Less Explorimentation, More Science. In ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 51, no. 2, Oct. 2023.
Arthur S. Jacobs, Roman Beltiukov, Walter Willinger, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Arpit Gupta, and Lisandro Granville. AI/ML for Network Security: The Emperor has no Clothes. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS'22), Los Angeles, CA, USA, pages 1537-1551, November 7-11, 2022.
Awarded Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CCS 2022.
Awarded 2023 IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize.
Brivaldo A. da Silva Junior, Paulo Mol, Osvaldo Fonseca, Ítalo Cunha, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, and Ethan Katz-Bassett. Automatic Inference of BGP Location Communities. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS'22, Mumbai, India, pages 3.1-3.23, June 6-10, 2022.
Fabrício B. Carvalho, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Ítalo Cunha, Marcos A. M. Vieira, and Murali K. Ramanathan. Dyssect: Dynamic Scaling of Stateful Network Functions. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM'22), Cambridge, UK (Online), pages 1529-1538, May 2-5, 2022.
Arthur S. Jacobs, Ricardo Pfitscher, Rafael Ribeiro, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Lisandro Granville, Walter Willinger, and Sanjay Rao. Hey, Lumi! Using Natural Language for Intent-Based Network Management. In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2021 (USENIX ATC'21), pages 625-639, July 14-16, 2021.
Osvaldo Fonseca, Ítalo Cunha, Elverton Fazzion, Wagner Meira Jr, Brivaldo Junior, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, and Ethan Katz-Basset. Identifying Networks Vulnerable to IP Spoofing. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Volume 18, Number 3, pages 3170-3183, September, 2021.
Pamela Zave, Fabrício B. Carvalho, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Jennifer Rexford, Masaharu Morimoto, and X. Kelvin Zou. A Verified Session Protocol for Dynamic Service Chaining. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 28, Number 1, pages 423-437, February 2021.
Osvaldo Fonseca, Ítalo Cunha, Elverton Fazzion, Wagner Meira Jr, Brivaldo Junior, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, and Ethan Katz-Basset. Tracking Down Sources of Spoofed IP Packets. In IFIP Networking 2020 Conference, pages 208-216, Paris, France, June 22-25, 2020.
Awarded Best Paper Runner-Up
Arthur S. Jacobs, Ricardo J. Pfitscher, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, and Lisandro Z. Granville. Refining Network Intents for Self-Driving Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 48, Issue 5, pages 55-63, October 2018. An earlier version was selected as the Best Paper of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Self-Driving Networks in Budapest, Hungary, August 20-25 2018.
Pamela Zave, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, X. Kelvin Zou, Masaharu Morimoto, and Jennifer Rexford. Dynamic Service Chaining with Dysco. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '17, pages 57-70, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 21-25, 2017.

Distributed Algorithms and Systems

Péricles Lopes and Ronaldo A. Ferreira. SplitQuest: Controlled and Exhaustive Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks. In Proceedings of the USENIX 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS´10), San Jose, CA, USA, April 2010.
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Mehmet Koyutürk, Suresh Jagannathan, and Ananth Grama. Semantic Indexing in Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks. In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) , Volume 68, Number 1, pages 64-77, January 2008.
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Murali K. Ramanathan, Ananth Grama, and Suresh Jagannathan. Randomized Protocols for Duplicate Elimination in Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 18, Number 5, pages 686-696, May 2007. An earlier version appeared at the 5th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2005).
Murali K. Ramanathan, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Grama, and Wojciech Szpankowski. Randomized Leader Election. In Distributed Computing, Volume 19, Number 5-6, pages 403-418, April 2007.
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan, and Ananth Grama. Locality in Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 66, Number 2, pages 257-273, February 2006.
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Murali K. Ramanathan, Asad Awan, Ananth Grama, and Suresh Jagannathan. Search with Probabilistic Guarantees in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks. In Proceedings of The 5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2005), Konstanz, Germany, pages 165-172, August 2005.

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