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_ Computer Science Seminar Series Speaker
   
  Radha Poovendran
 
University of Washington
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October 2, 2009
11:00am-12:00pm
Donald Bren Hall 6011
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Modeling Jamming Attacks on Wireless Networks
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Robust network operation and the ability to provide user and data security while under attack are desirable qualities of network protocols. However, these qualities require a fundamental understanding of network protocol vulnerabilities and characterization of the space of possible attacks. Understanding attacks and their impact is thus a necessary prerequisite to the design of robust networking protocols. Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks present additional challenges to robust protocol design in the form of resource and computational constraints, reliance on the wireless medium, and the absence of pre-existing network infrastructure. In this work, we will consider modeling the impact of jamming attack on networks that allow multiple path routing and contain multiple sources and destinations. We show that by appropriate mapping, this problem can be viewed as a network flow problem and then provide a constrained optimization formulation of the problem.
 
 

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Speaker Bio
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Radha Poovendran is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include wireless and multiuser security, applications on information theory and optimization to network security. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER as well as Presidential Award (PECASE). He co-chaired ACM WiSec 2008 (as well as in 2005, 2006 when it was a workshop), NSF-NCO workshop on transportation in Nov 2008 in Washington, DC.

   
   
   
   
   
 

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