Welcome - CANCCOM - Complex Adaptive Networks for Computing and Communication

Participating researchers include:

The problem of service discovery is about dynamically locating, in a network, servers that fulfill requirements of clients. A strategy is a way to apply a service discovery protocol. The goal of this work is to devise new service discovery strategies and to characterize them in terms of cost and latency. Regarding satellite transport protocols, we look at the problem of handling communication errors compromising the reliable and efficient delivery of units of data from application to application. Most transport protocols are only designed to handle congestion-related errors common to wired networks, resulting in severe degradation in effective throughput. Our approach consists of integrating differentiating error control strategies in transport protocols. Threats to security of mobile and wireless networks are facts of life. The research on intrusion detection in mobile and wireless networks acknowledges the fact that creating a defense for every possible method of attack is an impossible task. The long term goal of this research is to develop tools to help network managers to detect and pinpoint sources of attacks and tools to quickly recover and repair damages caused by attacks (e.g. contaminated data). Currently, the focus is on detecting and pinpointing tools, that is to say, intrusion detection systems. Spontaneous communication is about the establishment, on-the-fly, of communication among members of a group of users for collaboration purposes. It is a model of user level communication typically encountered in mobile and wireless networks. Collaboration groups are called virtual because their topology does not necessarily match the underlying physical topology. Virtual private services address the challenges associated with distributed responsibility for access control of resources. Virtual private services ensure security and privacy policies that are adhered to through coordinated policy enforcement points. The core challenge faced in this communication model is the ability to develop a solution that ensures consistent access-control policies across a set of distributed firewalls between disparate enterprises. While current tools can easily distribute policy files, we address the deeper problem in ensuring consistent access policies, across many different systems, is far more difficult.

Additional information can be found in the NETWORKS and SECURITY Groups.