Research projects

My current research interests are in security, notably in distributed computing (e.g. peer-to-peer systems), networking, sensor networking and consumer computing. I am collaborating with Dr. Sandeep Gupta and Dr. Karam Chatha.

Consumer computing security is currently a focus area of my research.

My research, since 1993 has been in collaboration with the parallel and distributed systems group at New York University (Z. M. Kedem and V. Karamcheti). The research topics include Security, Networking and Operating Systems. I have also collaborated with Dr. Nong Ye of Industrial Engineering, ASU.

My funding sources have been NSF, AFOSR, DARPA and Microsoft.

Publications from all the projects below are here.

Security of Consumer Computing
Ensuring authentication of end users and identity assurance in spite of compromised client computers.
Inception: 2004

Sensor Networking Security
Tracking location and identity of deployed sensors and biosensors in spite of intrusions.
Inception: 2003

Attack Resilient P2P Services
Make internet services attack resilient by recruiting large numbers of peer systems to provide the service.
Inception: 2002

Network Hardening: 
Transport level protocols for enabling higher level security in large TCP-IP networks (e.g. Internet). 
Inception: 2001
Funding Sources: AFOSR, DARPA.

Dynamic Coalitions: 
Technology for managing large scale cooperation amongst diverse organizations. 
Inception: February 1999 
Funding Sources: DARPA, Microsoft

General Purpose Process Migration: 
Moving regular application processes from here to there.
Inception: 1999 
Funding Sources: NSF

Computing Communities: 
Coalescing many general purpose systems to form one single general purpose system - and maintain legacy binary compatibility. 
Inception: 1998 
Funding Source: DARPA

The MILAN Project: 
Metacomputing in Large Asynchronous Networks - managing fault isolation, QoS, scalability, Tunability and Adaptivity  for parallel processing. 
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Dates: 1995 -1998
Funding Sources: DARPA, NSF, Intel and Microsoft.

Prior Research (before 1993)