Topic: Securing Wireless Networks with Resource-Constrained Devices

Speaker: Yuguang ¡°Michael¡± Fang£¬Professor 

Room: NEB 101

Time: 4:05pm - 5:05pm


Abstract

Huge interest and demand on information superhighway (the future high-speed Internet access) have pressed various telecommunications research fronts and resulted in various kinds of wired or wireless network clouds of various administrative domains to enable the universal information access via inexpensive resource-constrained devices. Thus, the future trend will lead to a new form of Internet consisting of wired and wireless segments where resource-constrained devices such as palm pilots and sensors may become integral parts of the Internet rather than access-only platforms. Moreover, various kinds of applications over such heterogeneous networks may demand control actions to be taken over such networks to order to fulfill certain networking missions (such as sensing and actuation). One of the key design problems is the information assurance in such heterogeneous networks, particularly over wireless networks with resource-constrained segments. In this talk, I will present a novel approach to addressing the security issue. I will focus on the wireless ad hoc networks such as mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks and demonstrate why and how the ID-based cryptography can be effectively applied to the resource-constrained wireless networks for various network security problems, report what we have accomplished along this line of research and point out some future challenges for further research. 

Brief biography: Dr. Yuguang ¡°Michael¡± Fang is currently a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He received a Ph.D degree in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in January 1994 and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Computer Engineering from Boston University in May 1997. His research interests span many areas including wireless networks, mobile computing, mobile communications, wireless security, automatic control, and neural networks. He received NSF CAREER Award in 2001, and ONR Young Investigator Award in 2002. He also received the Best Paper Award in the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP¡¯2006) and the IEEE TCGN Best Paper Award in the IEEE High-Speed Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecom 2002. He is an editor of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazines, ACM Wireless Networks, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. For more detailed information, refer to his home page http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/