| 2025 | PADS | Reflection Test of Time: RINSE: the real-time immersive network simulation environment for network security exercises. | David M. Nicol |
| 2024 | SecureComm | DPU-LARD: DPU-Leveraged Attestation of Remote Devices for Security of OT Networks. | William Kozlowski, Deming Chen, David M. Nicol |
| 2022 | DSN | Exploiting monotonicity and symmetry for efficient simulation of highly dependable systems. | Hoang Hai Nguyen, Kartik Palani, David M. Nicol |
| 2022 | PADS | Temporally synchronized emulation of devices with simulation of networks. | Vignesh Babu, David M. Nicol |
| 2021 | CCS | vBump: Securing Ethernet-based Industrial Control System Networks with VLAN-based Traffic Aggregation. | Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Binbin Chen, Daisuke Mashima, David M. Nicol |
| 2020 | Mobiquitous | Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV-Assisted Emergency Response. | Isabella Lee, Vignesh Babu, Matthew Caesar, David M. Nicol |
| 2020 | PADS | Precise Virtual Time Advancement for Network Emulation. | Vignesh Babu, David M. Nicol |
| 2020 | TrustCom | Estimating Loss Due to Cyber-attack in the Presence of Uncertainty. | Hoang Hai Nguyen, David M. Nicol |
| 2019 | CRITIS | Challenges in Quantifying an Adversary's Cyber Access to Critical Infrastructures. | David M. Nicol |
| 2019 | DSN | Extensions of Network Reliability Analysis. | Hoang Hai Nguyen, Kartik Palani, David M. Nicol |
| 2019 | GLOBECOM | Modeling Stepping Stone Attacks with Constraints in Cyber Infrastructure. | Marco A. Gamarra, Sachin Shetty, David M. Nicol, Laurent Njilla, Oscar R. Gonzlez |
| 2019 | PADS | Simulation-based Analysis of Network Rules Matching. | David M. Nicol |
| 2019 | WSC | SDN Resiliency to Controller Failure in Mobile Contexts. | David M. Nicol, Rakesh Kumar |
| 2018 | ICDCS | Will Distributed Computing Revolutionize Peace? The Emergence of Battlefield IoT. | Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Nora Ayanian, Tamer Basar, Suhas N. Diggavi, Jana Diesner, Deepak Ganesan, Ramesh Govindan, Susmit Jha, Tancrde Lepoint, Benjamin M. Marlin, Klara Nahrstedt, David M. Nicol, Raj Rajkumar, Stephen Russell, Sanjit A. Seshia, Fei Sha, Prashant J. Shenoy, Mani B. Srivastava, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Ananthram Swami, Paulo Tabuada, Don Towsley, Nitin H. Vaidya, Venugopal V. Veeravalli |
| 2018 | ICNP | Network Coding for Critical Infrastructure Networks. | Rakesh Kumar, Vignesh Babu, David M. Nicol |
| 2018 | WSC | On Repeatable Emulation in Virtual Testbeds. | Vignesh Babu, David M. Nicol |
| 2018 | WSC | Cyber Risk of Coordinated Attacks in Critical Infrastructures. | David M. Nicol |
| 2017 | PADS | A Performance Model of Composite Synchronization. | David M. Nicol |
| 2017 | WSC | Melody: Synthesized datasets for evaluating intrusion detection systems for the smart grid. | Vignesh Babu, Rakesh Kumar, Hoang Hai Nguyen, David M. Nicol, Kartik Palani, Elizabeth Reed |
| 2017 | WSC | Parallel discrete event simulation: The making of a field. | Richard M. Fujimoto, Rajive L. Bagrodia, Randal E. Bryant, K. Mani Chandy, David R. Jefferson, Jayadev Misra, David M. Nicol, Brian W. Unger |
| 2016 | CCS | Risk Assessment of Cyber Access to Physical Infrastructure in Cyber-Physical Systems. | David M. Nicol |
| 2016 | PADS | Efficient Monte Carlo Evaluation of SDN Resiliency. | David M. Nicol, Rakesh Kumar |
| 2016 | WSC | Emulation/simulation of PLC networks with the S3F network simulator. | Vignesh Babu, David M. Nicol |
| 2015 | PADS | Conjoining Emulation and Network Simulators on Linux Multiprocessors. | Jereme Lamps, Vladimir Adam, David M. Nicol, Matthew Caesar |
| 2015 | PRDC | Model-Based Cybersecurity Assessment with NESCOR Smart Grid Failure Scenarios. | Sumeet Jauhar, Binbin Chen, William G. Temple, Xinshu Dong, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, William H. Sanders, David M. Nicol |
| 2014 | BigData | Knowledge Discovery from Big Data for Intrusion Detection Using LDA. | Jingwei Huang, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, David M. Nicol |
| 2014 | BigData | Denial-of-Service Threat to Hadoop/YARN Clusters with Multi-tenancy. | Jingwei Huang, David M. Nicol, Roy H. Campbell |
| 2014 | DCOSS | Enabling Collaborative Research for Security and Resiliency of Energy Cyber Physical Systems. | Alefiya Hussain, Ted Faber, Robert Braden, Terry V. Benzel, Tim Yardley, Jeremy Jones, David M. Nicol, William H. Sanders, Thomas W. Edgar, Thomas E. Carroll, David O. Manz, Laura Tinnel |
| 2014 | PADS | TimeKeeper: a lightweight virtual time system for linux. | Jereme Lamps, David M. Nicol, Matthew Caesar |
| 2014 | PRDC | Automatic Generation of Security Argument Graphs. | Nils Ole Tippenhauer, William G. Temple, An Hoa Vu, Binbin Chen, David M. Nicol, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, William H. Sanders |
| 2014 | WSC | A continuous piecewise-linear NHPP intensity function estimator. | David M. Nicol, Lawrence M. Leemis |
| 2014 | WSC | Modeling and analysis of stepping stone attacks. | David M. Nicol, Vikas Mallapura |
| 2013 | CCS | A distributed monitoring architecture for AMIs: minimizing the number of monitoring nodes and enabling collided packet recovery. | Incheol Shin, Jun Ho Huh, Yuseok Jeon, David M. Nicol |
| 2013 | NSPW | Go with the flow: toward workflow-oriented security assessment. | Binbin Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, David M. Nicol, William H. Sanders, Rui Tan, William G. Temple, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, An Hoa Vu, David K. Y. Yau |
| 2013 | PADS | Parallel simulation of software defined networks. | Dong (Kevin) Jin, David M. Nicol |
| 2013 | PADS | Grand challenges in modeling and simulation: expanding our horizons. | Simon J. E. Taylor, Osman Balci, Wentong Cai, Margaret L. Loper, David M. Nicol, George F. Riley |
| 2013 | WSC | Impacts of application lookahead on distributed network emulation. | Yuhao Zheng, Dong (Kevin) Jin, David M. Nicol |
| 2012 | GLOBECOM | The Not-So-Smart Grid: Preliminary work on identifying vulnerabilities in ANSI C12.22. | Shehla S. Rana, Huaiyu Zhu, Cheol Won Lee, David M. Nicol, Incheol Shin |
| 2012 | PADS | Virtual Time Integration of Emulation and Parallel Simulation. | Dong (Kevin) Jin, Yuhao Zheng, Huaiyu Zhu, David M. Nicol, Lenhard Winterrowd |
| 2012 | WSC | Validation of application behavior on a virtual time integrated network emulation testbed. | Yuhao Zheng, Dong (Kevin) Jin, David M. Nicol |
| 2012 | SACMAT | A framework integrating attribute-based policies into role-based access control. | Jingwei Huang, David M. Nicol, Rakesh Bobba, Jun Ho Huh |
| 2012 | SIMULTECH | Exploiting Uncertainty and Error to Accelerate Simulations. | David M. Nicol |
| 2011 | PADS | A Virtual Time System for OpenVZ-Based Network Emulations. | Yuhao Zheng, David M. Nicol |
| 2011 | WSC | An event buffer flooding attack in DNP3 controlled SCADA systems. | Dong (Kevin) Jin, David M. Nicol, Guanhua Yan |
| 2011 | WSC | S3F: the Scalable Simulation Framework revisited. | David M. Nicol, Dong (Kevin) Jin, Yuhao Zheng |
| 2010 | CCS | Role-based differentiation for insider detection algorithms. | Suraj Nellikar, David M. Nicol, Jai J. Choi |
| 2010 | PADS | Efficient Gigabit Ethernet Switch Models for Large-Scale Simulation. | Dong (Kevin) Jin, David M. Nicol, Matthew Caesar |
| 2010 | PADS | Validation of Radio Channel Models Using an Anechoic Chamber. | Yuhao Zheng, David M. Nicol |
| 2010 | WSC | Fast simulation of background traffic through Fair Queueing networks. | Dong (Kevin) Jin, David M. Nicol |
| 2010 | WSC | Methodologies for evaluating game theoretic defense against DDoS attacks. | Tanmay Khirwadkar, Kien C. Nguyen, David M. Nicol, Tamer Basar |
| 2009 | ACSAC | TrustGraph: Trusted Graphics Subsystem for High Assurance Systems. | Hamed Okhravi, David M. Nicol |
| 2009 | WSC | A Post-disaster Mobility Model for Delay Tolerant Networking. | Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, David M. Nicol, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets |
| 2008 | PADS | Performance Analysis of Real Traffic Carried with Encrypted Cover Flows. | Nabil Schear, David M. Nicol |
| 2006 | WSC | Detection of nuclear material at border crossings using motion correlation. | David M. Nicol, Rose Tsang, Heidi R. Ammerlahn, Michael M. Johnson |
| 2005 | CCS | Aggregated path authentication for efficient BGP security. | Meiyuan Zhao, Sean W. Smith, David M. Nicol |
| 2005 | PADS | RINSE: The Real-Time Immersive Network Simulation Environment for Network Security Exercises. | Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, Yougu Yuan, Guanhua Yan, Chris Grier |
| 2005 | PADS | Simulation of Network Traffic at Coarse Timescales. | David M. Nicol, Guanhua Yan |
| 2005 | WSC | Advanced concepts in large-scale network simulation. | David M. Nicol, Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu |
| 2005 | WSC | Performance analysis of binary code protection. | David M. Nicol, Hamed Okhravi |
| 2004 | PADS | Simulation Validation Using Direct Execution of Wireless Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols. | Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, David M. Nicol, Robert S. Gray, Calvin C. Newport, David Kotz, L. Felipe Perrone |
| 2004 | WSC | Evaluation of Secure Peer-to-Peer Overlay Routing for Survivable SCADA Systems. | Jeffrey J. Farris, David M. Nicol |
| 2004 | WSC | A BGP Attack Against Traffic Engineering. | Jintae Kim, Steven Y. Ko, David M. Nicol, Xenofontas A. Dimitropoulos, George F. Riley |
| 2004 | WSC | On-Demand Computation of Policy Based Routes for Large-Scale Network Simulation. | Michael Liljenstam, David M. Nicol |
| 2004 | WSC | Simulation Analysis of Virtual Geographic Routing. | David M. Nicol, Michael E. Goldsby, Michael M. Johnson |
| 2004 | WSC | Fast Model-Based Penetration Testing. | Sankalp Singh, James Lyons, David M. Nicol |
| 2003 | PADS | An Implementation of the SSF Scalable Simulation Framework on the Cray MTA. | Robert R. Henry, Simon Kahan, Jason Liu, David M. Nicol |
| 2003 | PADS | Utility Analysis of Parallel Simulation. | David M. Nicol |
| 2003 | WSC | Simulation of large scale networks II: development of an internet backbone topology for large-scale network simulations. | Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David M. Nicol |
| 2003 | WSC | Simulation of large scale networks I: simulation of large-scale networks using SSF. | David M. Nicol, Jason Liu, Michael Liljenstam, Guanhua Yan |
| 2003 | WSC | Simulation of large scale networks II: modeling and simulation best practices for wireless ad hoc networks. | L. Felipe Perrone, Yougu Yuan, David M. Nicol |
| 2002 | MASCOTS | A Mixed Abstraction Level Simulation Model of Large-Scale Internet Worm Infestations. | Michael Liljenstam, Yougu Yuan, Brian J. Premore, David M. Nicol |
| 2002 | PADS | Lookahead revisited in wireless network simulations. | Jason Liu, David M. Nicol |
| 2002 | PADS | Analysis of composite synchronization. | David M. Nicol |
| 2002 | WSC | Network modeling and simulation: a scalable simulator for TinyOS applications. | L. Felipe Perrone, David M. Nicol |
| 2001 | PADS | Learning not to share. | Jason Liu, David M. Nicol |
| 2001 | PADS | Lock-free scheduling of logical processes in parallel simulation. | Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, King Tan |
| 2001 | PADS | Consistent modeling of distributed mutual exclusion protocol using optimistic simulation. | Yoke-Hean Low, David M. Nicol |
| 2001 | WSC | Wireless: towards high performance modeling of the 802.11 Wireless protocol. | Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, L. Felipe Perrone, Michael Liljenstam |
| 2001 | WSC | Fluid simulation: discrete event fluid modeling of TCP. | David M. Nicol |
| 2000 | MASCOTS | Using N-body Algorithms for Interference Computation in Wireless Cellular Simulations. | L. Felipe Perrone, David M. Nicol |
| 2000 | PADS | Safe timestamps and large-scale modeling. | David M. Nicol, Jason Liu, James H. Cowie |
| 2000 | WSC | Cost/benefit analysis of interval jumping in power-control simulation. | David M. Nicol, L. Felipe Perrone |
| 1999 | PADS | Performance Prediction of a Parallel Simulator. | Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, Brian J. Premore, Anna L. Poplawski |
| 1999 | PDPTA | Towards Realistic Million-Node Internet Simulation. | James H. Cowie, Hongbo Liu, Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, Andrew T. Ogielski |
| 1999 | WSC | Strategic directions in simulation research (panel). | Ernest H. Page, David M. Nicol, Osman Balci, Richard Fujimoto, Paul A. Fishwick, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Roger Smith |
| 1999 | WSC | An investigation of out-of-core parallel discrete-event simulation. | Anna L. Poplawski, David M. Nicol |
| 1998 | MASCOTS | IDES: A Java-based Distributed Simulation Engine. | David M. Nicol, Michael M. Johnson, Ann S. Yoshimura, Michael E. Goldsby |
| 1998 | PADS | Scalability, Locality, Partitioning and Synchronization PDES. | David M. Nicol |
| 1998 | PADS | Rapid Simulation of Wireless Systems. | L. Felipe Perrone, David M. Nicol |
| 1998 | PADS | Nops: A Conservative Parallel Simulation Engine for TeD. | Anna L. Poplawski, David M. Nicol |
| 1997 | PADS | Performance Modeling of the IDES Framework. | David M. Nicol, Michael M. Johnson, Ann S. Yoshimura, Michael E. Goldsby |
| 1997 | PADS | The Dark Side of Risk (what your mother never told you about Time Warp). | David M. Nicol, X. Liu |
| 1997 | WSC | The IDES Framework: A Case Study in Development of a Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation System. | David M. Nicol, Michael M. Johnson, Ann S. Yoshimura |
| 1997 | WSC | Parallel Simulation of TCP/IP Using TeD. | Brian J. Premore, David M. Nicol |
| 1996 | MASCOTS | Building Parallel Simulations from Serial Simulators. | Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol |
| 1996 | MASCOTS | Parallelizable Execution-Driven Simulation of Threaded Distributed Memory Parallel Computations. | David M. Nicol, J. X. Liu |
| 1996 | PADS | On Extending More Parallelism to Serial Simulators. | David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger |
| 1996 | PADS | Experiments in Automated Load Balancing. | Linda F. Wilson, David M. Nicol |
| 1996 | WSC | Principles of Conservative Parallel Simulation. | David M. Nicol |
| 1995 | MASCOTS | Parallelized Network Simulators for Message-Passing Parallel Programs. | Phillip M. Dickens, Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol |
| 1995 | MASCOTS | Efficient Massively Parallel Simulation of Dynamic Channel Assignment Schemes for Wireless Cellular Communications. | Albert G. Greenberg, Boris D. Lubachevsky, David M. Nicol, Paul E. Wright |
| 1995 | PADS | Empirical study of parallel trace-driven LRU cache simulators. | David M. Nicol, Eric Carr |
| 1995 | PADS | On extending parallelism to serial simulators. | David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger |
| 1995 | PADS | Global virtual time and distributed synchronization. | Jeff S. Steinman, Craig A. Lee, Linda F. Wilson, David M. Nicol |
| 1995 | WSC | Automated Load Balancing in SPEEDES. | Linda F. Wilson, David M. Nicol |
| 1994 | MASCOTS | Parallel Simulation of Markovian Queueing Networks. | Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol |
| 1994 | PADS | A distributed memory LAPSE: parallel simulation of message-passing programs. | Phillip M. Dickens, Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol |
| 1994 | PADS | Efficient massively parallel simulation of dynamic channel assignment schemes for wireless cellular communications. | Albert G. Greenberg, Boris D. Lubachevsky, David M. Nicol, Paul E. Wright |
| 1994 | WSC | Timing simulation of paragon codes using workstation clusters. | Phillip M. Dickens, Philip Heidelberger, David M. Nicol |
| 1994 | SIGMETRICS | Optimal Multiphase Complete Exchange on Circuit-Switched Hypercube Architectures. | David M. Nicol, Shahid H. Bokhari |
| 1993 | INFOCOM | Load Balancing of Complex Stochastic Tasks Using Stochastic Majorization. | David M. Nicol, Rahul Simha, Donald F. Towsley |
| 1993 | PADS | Global synchronization for optimistic parallel discrete event simulation. | David M. Nicol |
| 1993 | PADS | Parallel algorithms for simulating continuous time Markov chains. | David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger |
| 1993 | WSC | The impact of adding aggressiveness to a non-aggressive windowing protocol. | Phillip M. Dickens, David M. Nicol, Paul F. Reynolds Jr., John Mark Duva |
| 1993 | SIGMETRICS | Parallel Simulation of Markovian Queueing Networks Using Adaptive Uniformization. | David M. Nicol, Philip Heidelberger |
| 1992 | WSC | State of the art in parallel simulation. | Richard M. Fujimoto, David M. Nicol |
| 1992 | WSC | MIMD Parallel Simulation of Circuit-Switched Communication Networks. | David M. Nicol, Albert G. Greenberg, Boris D. Lubachevsky |
| 1991 | WSC | Parallel simulation of timed Petri-nets. | David M. Nicol, Subhas C. Roy |
| 1990 | PPoPP | Analysis of Synchronization in Massively Parallel Discrete-Event Sumulations. | David M. Nicol |
| 1990 | WSC | A "conservative" approach to parallelizing the Sharks World simulation. | David M. Nicol, Scott E. Riffe |
| 1989 | WSC | Efficient aggregation of multiple PLs in distributed memory parallel simulations. | David M. Nicol, Chris C. Michael, Patrick Inouye |
| 1989 | SIGMETRICS | Accurate Modeling of Parallel Scientific Computations. | David M. Nicol, James C. Townsend |
| 1988 | ICS | Principles of runtime support for parallel processors. | Ravi Mirchandaney, Joel H. Saltz, Roger M. Smith, David M. Nicol, Kay Crowley |
| 1988 | PPoPP | Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation Of FCFS Stochastic Queuing Networks. | David M. Nicol |
| 1988 | WSC | Implementation parallelized queueing network simulations using FORTRAN and data abstraction. | Keith W. Miller, David M. Nicol |
| 1987 | ICPP | Problem Size, Parallel Architecture, and Optimal Speedup. | David M. Nicol, Frank H. Willard |
| 1987 | WSC | Performance issues for distributed battlefield simulations. | David M. Nicol |
| 1985 | WSC | An optimal repartitioning decision policy. | David M. Nicol, Paul F. Reynolds Jr. |
| 1984 | WSC | Problem oriented protocol design. | David M. Nicol, Paul F. Reynolds Jr. |