NSRC Industry Day 2006, held on Tuesday, October 17th, was a great success. Over 30 representatives from 17 companies from industry and government were in attendance. The day included keynote talks by John Eicke of ARL and Dr. Douglas Maughan of DHS, a presentation by Dean of the College of Engineering David Wormley, faculty presentations, and over 30 student posters. Links to the talks and posters can be found below.

Monday, October 16

• 6:30-9:00 PM – Reception, The Atherton Hotel

Tuesday, October 17

HUB Auditorium

• 8:30-8:35 – Welcome – Thomas La Porta, Director, NSRC

• 8:35-9:00 – David Wormley, Dean, College of Engineering

• 9:00-10:00 – John Eicke, Chief of Signal & Image Processing Division, Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

Since 1999, Mr. John Eicke has been the Chief of the Signal & Image Processing Division at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. He received his BSEE in 1976 and his MSEE degree in 1981 from the University of Maryland. He Began his career as an electronics engineer at the Harry Diamond Laboratories which became part of the U.S. Army Research laboratory in 1992. Mr. Eicke currently leads the ARL efforts in sensors for autonomous sensing operations, including image understanding, acoustic sensing and other non-imaging sensing and unattended ground sensor programs.
• 10:00-10:30 – Break

• 10:30-11:30 – Doug Maughan, Program Manager, Cyber Security R&D, Department of Homeland Security

Dr. Douglas Maughan is a Program Manager in Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) within the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Dr. Maughan is directing the Cyber Security Research and Development activities at HSARPA. Prior to his appointment at DHS, Dr. Maughan was a Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Office (ATO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia. His research interests and related programs were in the areas of networking and information assurance. Prior to his appointment at DARPA, Dr. Maughan worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) as a senior computer scientist and led several research teams performing network security research. Dr. Maughan received Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Statistics from Utah State University, a Masters degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
• 11:30-12:00 – Thomas La Porta, Director, NSRC

Information Sciences and Technology Building

• 12:00-4:00 – Lunch, Posters, Demos (see list below)

• 2:30-4:00 – Faculty Talks (in parallel)

• Patrick McDaniel – SIIS Lab
• Trent Jaeger – SIIS Lab
• Sencun Zhu – SIIS Lab
• Guohong Cao – Mobile Computing and Networking Lab
• Aylin Yener – Wireless Communications and Networking Lab
• George Kesidis – Research Overview
• Tom La Porta – Center Issues

Demos

• Fine-Grained Secure Localization for 802.11 Networks – Patrick Traynor (sponsored by Telcordia)
• Sensor Relocation – Jie Teng
• FP-LBS: A Flexible Privacy enhanced Location Based Services System Framework and Practice – Yan Sun (sponsored by IBM)
• iCAT: A Probabilistic Risk Assessment Toolkit for 3G Networks – Kameswari Kotapati
• JPMail: A security-typed, multi-level secure email client using Jif and Labeled IPsec – Boniface Hicks
• CS Cache Engine: Data Access Accelerator for Location-based Service in Mobile Environments – Ken Lee

Posters

• Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks – Patrick Traynor, William Enck (sponsored by Raytheon)
• SET: Clone Detection in Sensor Networks – Heesook Choi
• Data Gathering in Active RFID Networks using a Mobile Reader – Mike Lin, Hosam Rowaihy (sponsored by TTC)
• Dynamic Sensor Networks Reconfiguration for Multi-Mission Support – Hosam Rowaihy, Sharanya Eswaran (sponsored by ARL and MoD-UK)
• Channelization in multi-hop wireless networks – J. Shin, R. Kumar
• Congestion Aware Routing in Sensor Networks – R. Kumar, H. Rowaihy
• Payload-based polymorphic worm defense – Jisheng Wang
• Data dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks – Jing Zhao
• Collaborative data access in mobile P2P networks – Yang Zhang
• Controllable Node Mobility for Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks – Changlei Liu
• On the use of nodes with controllable mobility for conserving power in MANETs – Aravindhan Venkateswaran
• Energy Efficient Scheduling for Two-tier CDMA Sensor Networks – Min Chen
• Power Optimal Routing for Ad Hoc Networks with End-to-end QoS Guarantees – Chien-Jen Huang
• Cooperative Cognitive Relay Networks: Diversity and Outage Performance – Kyounghwan Lee
• Physical Layer Security for Multiuser Systems – Ender Tekin
• Mining Security-Sensitive Operations in Legacy Code – Dave King
• Shamon: A Shared Reference Monitor for Distributed Mandatory Access Control – Luke St. Clair
• Breaking Down the Barriers of Mutual Distrust: Security typed Email Using Labeled IPsec – Sandra Julieta Rueda Rodriguez
• Language-based Information Flow Control – Boniface Hicks
• Security-typed Languages: From Theory to Practice – Boniface Hicks
• Understanding Mutable Internet Pathogens, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Parasitic Behavior – Kevin Butler
• Securing Non-Volatile Main Memory – William Enck
• Email Communities of Interest – Lisa Johansen
• SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks – Yi Yang
• SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker – Xinran Wang
• Thwarting Topological Worm Attacks in P2P Systems – Liang Xie
• Link Quality Estimator for Wireless Sensor Networks – Yingqi Xu
• Information Management and Knowledge Discovery in Large Scale Dynamic Networks – Mei Li
• Purposeful Mobility, QoS and Security for Sensor Networks – Arnab Das, Azin Neishaboori, Rajesh Rao

A pdf of the agenda can be found here.