SENSOR NETWORKS AND FUTURE INTERNET SECURITY - University of Southern California One-Day Workshop

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from computer science, engineering, statistical signal processing communities, applied mathematicians, and statisticians/probabilists to identify challenging problems in Sensor Networks, Network Security, Networking, Optimization of Distributed Sensor Systems, Information Theory, and Statistical Inference with an emphasis on a variety of applications that include, but are not limited to:

We especially encourage undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty to participate and to establish possible future collaborations.

An example of an application area is detection and classification of intrusions and congestion in multisensor distributed computer networks (wired and wireless). During the past several years, considerable interest in the field of defense against cyber-terrorism in general, and network intrusion detection in particular, has been induced by a series of external and internal attacks on important corporate and governmental networks, server clusters, and other network resources. Computer network intrusions represent serious threats for information systems, causing failures and interrupting services to users. As a result, the defense against these serious threats is rapidly gaining importance. Recent advances in spectral signal processing and the change-point detection theory can be successfully applied in the design of efficient hybrid anomaly-signature detection systems for early detection of intrusions in computer networks.

This workshop is organized by Dr. Alexander Tartakovsky, Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences & Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California (tartakov@math.usc.edu) and Dr. Edmond Jonckheere, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California (jonckhee@usc.edu) with the sponsorship of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics, Director: Dr. Chunming Wang and the Viterbi School of Engineering, Y. Yortsos, Dean.

Program (Click on talk's title to see the abstract)

8:15 - 8:45	Registration and Coffee
8:45 - 9:00	Welcoming Remarks: MICHAEL QUICK, Dean of Research, LAS and CHUNMING WANG, CAMS Director, University of Southern California
9:00 - 10:00	NAGESWARA S. V. RAO, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “UltraScience Net: Network Research Testbed for Large-Scale Science Applications”
10:00 - 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:05	PETER REIHER, Computer Science Department, University of California at Los Angeles, “Spoofing and DDoS: Solutions for Today’s Internet and Tomorrow’s”
11:05 - 11:55	JOHN HEIDEMANN, Information Science Institute, University of Southern California, “Spectral Analysis of Network Traffic”
11:55 - 1:20	Lunch Break
1:20 - 2:00	STEPHAN BOHACEK, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Delaware, “Capacity Optimization for Mesh Networks”
2:00 - 2:50	SKHUSHBOO SHAH, Nevis Networks, Mountain View, CA, “Stopping Malware in Enterprise”
2:50 - 3:05	Coffee Break
3:05 - 3:55	EDMOND JONCKHEERE, JOAO HESPANHA, et al, University of Southern California, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Secure Routing on Negatively Curved Networks”
4:00 - 5:00	Panel Discussion and Software Demonstrations
5:00 -	Adjourn

Registration

All attendees are required to register. Registration is free, but there is limited space available.
The deadline for registration is May 21, 2007.

Registrants should send an email with name, rank or title, and institutional affiliation to:

Fatima Perez
Graduate Affairs Coordinator
University of Southern California
Kaprielian Hall KAP 108F
3620 S. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532
Tel: (213) 740-4291
Email: fcperez@usc.edu