University of Maryland Partnership with the LTS (2004-2005)

The University of Maryland, through UMIACS, has established a partnership with the Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences (LTS) based on collaborative research programs covering a broad spectrum of fundamental and applied research in the design, performance, and the management of distributed heterogeneous networks. In addition, this partnership involves strong outreach activities including collaboration with industrial partners and the organization of focused workshops and seminar series in emerging technology areas in telecommunications sciences. The UMD Principal Investigator is Prof. Joseph JaJa (UMIACS and ECE) with faculty participating from the following units: UMIACS, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, the Business School, Institute for Systems Research, and the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at UMBC.

Spring 2005: Progress Review Presentations

• Overview: Active Network Management (Presented by Mark Shayman)
• Source-Domain DDoS Prevention (Presented by Bobby Bhattacharjee)
• Measurement Based Routing Strategies on Overlay Architectures (Presented by Richard La)
• Differentiated Traffic Engineering for Providing QoS in Networks (Presented by Vahid Tabatabaee)
• Real-Time Reconfiguration of MPLS/WDM Networks (Presented by Mark Shayman)
• Economics Aspects of Information Security (Presented by Larry Gordon and Marty Loeb)
• Coprocessor-Based Integrity Monitoring (Presented by Bill Arbaugh)
• Wireless Networking Projects (Presented by Ashok Agrawala)
• Using Neighbor Graphs in Support of Fast and Secure WLAN Mobility (Presented by Bill Arbaugh)
• Timestepped Simulation for WLAN/WAN (Presented by U. Shankar)
• Internet Pricing and Network Design Management (Presented by Joseph Bailey)
• Column Generation for WDM Optical Network Design (Presented by S. Raghavan)
• Multi-Period Traffic Routing in Satellite Networks (Presented by S. Raghavan)

January 2005: Progress Report

October 2004: Progress Report

June 2004: UMIACS/LTS Annual Review Presentations

• Active Network Management
  Overlay-based Active Monitoring and Security (S. Bhattacharjee)
  Measurement-based Multicast on Overlay Architecture (R. La)
  Differentiated Traffic Engineering for Providing Quality of Service in Networks (V. Tabatabaee)
  Real-time Reconfiguration of MPLS/WDM Networks (M. Shayman)

• Wireless Networking
  Neighbor Graphs: Probing and Interference (W. Arbaugh)
  Wireless Networking Projects (A. Agrawala)
  Managing and Exploiting Mobility for Elastic Traffic (J. Thomas)
  Wide-area Wireless Test-bed (W. Arbaugh/A. Agrawala/J. Thomas)
• The Economics of Networking Technology
  Economic Aspects of Information Security (L. Gordon/M. Loeb)
  Economics of Networking Technology (J. Bailey/S. Raghavan)
• Optical Networking
  Potential Impact of Dispersion and Nonlinearity on Network Management (G. Carter)
  High Speed Optical Networking: FEC Coding, Channel Models, and Evaluations (J. Morris)
• Security and Peer to Peer Networking
  Active Systems Security Management (W. Arbaugh)
  Peer to Peer Networking Research (M. Marsh)

January 2004: Progress Report

LTS/UMIACS Projects and Faculty Involved:

• Active Network Mangement (Mark Shayman, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Steve Marcus, Richard La, and Ray Chen)
• Active Systems Security Management (Bill Arbaugh and Virgil Gligor)
• The Economics of Communications/Networking Technology (Larry Gordon, Martin Loeb, Joseph Bailey, and S. Raghavan)
• Wireless Networking (Ashok Agrawala, Bill Arbaugh, Udaya Shankar, and Joseph Thomas)
• Optical Networking (Gary Carter and Joel Morris)
• Technical Exchanges in Telecommunications Sciences (Joseph JaJa)

UMIACS/LTS Seminar Series (2004):

• Using Neighbor Graphs in Support of Fast and Secure WLAN Mobility; February 4, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Location and Time in Wireless Environments; February 18, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks; March 3, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Progress in Ultra Wideband Communications; March 17, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Optimum Resource Allocation and Signalling Schemes in Fading CDMA Channels; March 31, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Military Grade Wireless Ad Hoc Networks; April 14, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks; May 5, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Room 1115 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC)
• Approximate Aggregation Techniques for Sensor Databases; October 20, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Visual-based Anomaly Detection for BGP; November 3, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Defending Against the Worms of Today and Tomorrow (PDF, PDF); November 17, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building
• Telecom Economics and Telecom Dogmas; December 1, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Room 1115 Computer Science Intructional Center (CSIC)
• Toward the Joint Design of Electronic and Optical Layer Protection; December 15, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Room 2460 A.V. Williams Building

Read Progress Reports and Presentations from Past Projects between 1999 and 2003