[UCI-CalIT2] Invitation to Seminar on Security of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Shellie Nazarenus SNAZ@uci.edu
Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:14:54 -0800


UCI DIVISION OF CAL-(IT)2 AND UCI NETWORKED SYSTEMS PRESENTS

Security of Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
featuring
Hisashi Kobayashi 
Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science 
Princeton University

Friday, March 12, 2004
10:30 a.m. light refreshments and 11 a.m. presentation
McDonnell Douglas Auditorium 

Abstract:  Recent advances in wireless technologies allow us to form a
new type of network called ad hoc networks which have no pre-existing
infrastructure, hence no central control.  Such a network may be formed,
for instance, in a disaster rescue operation. 

In an ad hoc network, each mobile user serves as a router as well as an
originator or a recipient of messages. The role of a router is to
forward a message coming from an originator towards its intended
recipient. The ad hoc nature of the network makes it vulnerable to
possible malicious attacks as well as to benign faults. Thus, design of
efficient, reliable and secure routing algorithms will present
formidable challenges.  The presentation will focus on what these
challenges are including a discussion of some of the secure routing
algorithms recently proposed in the literature. A description of ongoing
research efforts including Byzantin-robust routing algorithms, and
detection and prevention of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks
will also be discussed.

Speaker profile:  Hisashi Kobayashi is the Sherman Fairchild University
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton
University, where he served as the Dean of Engineering and Applied
Science (1986-91).  Prior to joining the Princeton faculty he worked for
the IBM Research Division for nineteen years (1967-86) and held several
managerial positions at T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,
N.Y. and then served as the Founding Director of IBM Tokyo Research
Laboratory (1982-86).

His past research efforts include radar signal design, seismic signal
processing, data transmission theory, digital recording, performance
modeling of computers and communication networks, and teletraffic and
queuing theory.  In the early 1970s he invented a high-density digital
recording technique, now widely known as PRML (partial-response coding
and maximum-likelihood decoding) that is widely adopted in today's
high-end hard discs. His recent research interest includes network
security, wireless geolocation, loss network theory, optical network
architecture, OFDM and UWB.

Kobayashi was elected a IEEE Fellow in 1977, a recipient of the Senior
U.S. Scientist Award  from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1979),
IFIP's Silver Core (1980), two IBM Outstanding Contribution Awards
(1975, 84), a member of Japan's National Academy of Engineering (1992)
and most recently elected to an IEEE Life Fellow (2004).

He authored "Modeling and Analysis" (Addison Wesley, 1978), and is
preparing a two-volume graduate textbook on "modeling and analysis of
communication networks" and a senior-level textbook on "digital
communications and networks."

THIS PRESENTATION IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. FOR FURTHER DETAILS,
CALL (949) 824-6900.


Shellie Nazarenus
Communications Mgr.
Cal-(IT)2 UC Irvine division 
416 Engineering Tower
Irvine, CA 92697-2800
office: (949) 824-9622 cell: (949) 533-2564 fax: (949) 824-8197
www.calit2.net