| Nov 2009 |
Updates |
Lots of updates coming soon with the events over the past few months. |
| Aug 2009 |
New movie |
New movie for the Lockdown project can be found here. The movie explores some of the more advanced data mining aspects of Lockdown with regards to our features currently under development. |
| July 2009 |
Conference Papers |
Two new papers recently accepted. One into NPSec regarding the tradeoffs of public versus private firewalls and another into Globecom regarding Fast TCP admission control. |
| June 2009 |
Ph. D Defense |
Congratulations to the soon to be Dr. Mike Chapple for successfully passing his Ph.D final exam. |
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New course |
We will be receiving two Microsoft Surface devices in a few weeks that will form the core of a new System Interface Design course. |
| May 2009 |
Ph. D Proposal |
Congrats to Andrew Blaich on successfully passing his Ph. D candidacy exam! |
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Congratulations to Qi Liao and Andrew Blaich for taking second place in the National Security Innovation Competition (NSIC) held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They presented their work on ENAVis, the visualization component of the Lockdown tool suite. The two won a prize of $2500 and the ability to share their work at a defense trade show in November. The official press release can be found here. |
| April 2009 |
Conference Paper |
Our conference paper entitled "Is High Definition a natural DRM?" was recently accepted to appear in the ICCCN 09 Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC). |
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Conference Paper |
Our conference paper "WiiLab: Bringing Together the Nintendo Wiimote and MATLAB" has been accepted to appear in the upcoming Frontiers In Education (FIE) conference. The work is based on our WiiLab software project that was primarily developed through the work of two REU students: Jordan Brindza and Jessica Szweda. |
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Journal |
Our journal paper "Reflections on The Virtues of Modularity: A Case Study in Linux Security Modules" has been accepted to appear in the journal Software: Practices and Experiences. |
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Conference Paper |
Our paper entitled "End-wise Admission Control Delegation for Effective End-To-End Quality of Service" was recently accepted to appear in IWQoS 2009 |
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Competition |
Our work on ENAVis has made it in as one of the ten finalists at the National Security Innovation Competition to be held May 1st in Denver, Colorado. Press Release |
| Mar 2009 |
Conf Paper |
Our recent paper entitled "On the Difficulties of Passively Detecting 802.11n Rogue Wireless Access Points" was recently accepted into the IEEE WoWMoM conference. |
| Feb 2009 |
REU Site |
We are now accepting applications for the second year of our REU site program, ErWIN: Experimental Research on Wireless Networking. Applications are due March 13, 2009 through the REU website. Relevant to the NetScale research, we will be continuing our WiiLab development and augmentations to the ENAVis / Lockdown visualization projects. |
| Jan 2009 |
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Our paper entitled "An Analysis of Firewall Rulebase (Mis)Management Practices" has been accepted to appear in the Information Systems Security Association Journal. The paper is our first published collaboration with John D'Arcy over at the Notre Dame College of Business. The paper examines through a set of information professional surveys and managers how firewall rules are overly complex and known to have significant potential security risks but yet resources (usually time) do not exist to properly fix the risks. |
| Nov 2008 |
Best Paper |
Our paper at LISA (Large Installation System Administration) 2008 on our visualization tool for Lockdown (ENAVis) won the best paper award. Congratulations to Qi and Andrew on their hard work on the paper! |
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Journal |
Our paper entitled "An Exploration of the Effects of State Granularity Through (m,k) Real-Time Streams" has been accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers. A special thanks to Yingxin on all the hard work she put in to get the paper through. |
| Sep 2008 |
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The Wiilab effort created by Jordan Brindza and Jessica Szweda, two of our REU site participants, allows one to bring simple motion capture via the Nintendo Wiimote into MATLAB. We will be highlighting the code for the fall offering of EG 10111 (Freshmen Engineering) and continuing with additional development in the following spring / summer. The project includes complete tutorials on installation, setup, testing, and MATLAB interactions. Apologies for the logo manipulation in advance. |
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The winning REU poster from our REU site now has the presentation posted in both Flash and Quicktime variants - Streaming / High Quality. |
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Pictures from this last summer's REU final poster presentations are now on-line along with a slideshow as well. |
| July 2008 |
Ph. D Defense |
Congratulations on Dave Salyers on defending his Ph. D entitled "Improving Network Efficiency." Dave will be joining the Amazon S3 group in August and we wish him the best of luck there! |
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Tutorial |
While it has been up for a few months (albeit hidden), we have a nice tutorial on the usage of libpcap containing several sets of example code from our ScaleBox architecture. |
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Conference Paper |
Our paper regarding the application of stealth multicast over the last wireless mile has been accepted at a workshop at IEEE LCN, entitled "Opportunistic Wireless Broadcast (OWB): Dynamic Redundancy Detection in the Wireless Medium." |
| June 2008 |
Conference Paper |
The second paper on the Lockdown project, ENAVis: Enterprise Network Activities Visualization, focusing on the visualization aspects has been accepted to appear at LISA 2008. |
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Position Paper |
Our first wiki position / technical report is on-line regarding considering the size of HD content as a natural DRM. Our goal is to post 2-3 of these position papers a year. |
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Equipment Grant |
The departmental news item is up regarding the experimental campus-wide mesh network that we are constructing as part of the DURIP grant funded via ONR. |
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Award |
Congratulations to our Ph.D group member, Mike Chapple, on receiving a Notre Dame Presidential Award for his service to the university as part of the Notre Dame Information Security effort. |
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Subversion |
We have now transitioned the core ScaleBox tool suite to Subversion. The files are now directly browsable here or also in ViewVC form here. Over the course of the summer, we will be transitioning most of our software tools over to Subversion for simplified download of the tools in source form. |
| May 2008 |
Summer |
Summer schedule is now here with the group meeting shifting to Thursdays in the CSE conference room from 11-12 PM. |
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Grant |
Thanks to Motorola Labs for a grant of $10k plus equipment along with support for the Motorola Labs design challenge for the Computer System Design course. |
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Wiki |
Hop on over to new wiki for the DARTS lab. |
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Conference |
Our paper on wireless time coordination entitled "A Light Weight Method for Maintaining Clock Synchronization for Networked Systems" has been accepted to appear at ICCCN 2008. |
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Congrats to Team 2 (Jeff Simmer, Ed Suski, A. J. Sporinsky) from CSE 40422 (Computer System Design) on winning the Motorola Labs Challenge project. The students designed a novel media-sharing application for smart mobile devices as part of a new joint effort between Dr. Striegel, Dr. Poellabauer, and Dr. Shivajit Mohapatra of Motorola Labs. |
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REU Supplement |
Our REU site for the summer will be up to a full 14 students, 10 courtesy of the REU site and the remaining through NSF REU support. While applications are closed for this year, check back at the end of the summer regarding progress reports for the various students. |
| April 2008 |
INFOCOM Demo |
The code for our INFOCOM demo of RIPPS can be found here. |
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Grant |
We will be revamping our simulation testbed to fully fledged emulation suite together with a university-wide mesh network courtesy of a DURIP grant. (PI: Poellabauer, Co-PIs: Striegel, Laneman). |
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Talks |
A flurry of talks these past few weeks by Dr. Striegel at the University of Connecticut, Boston University, MIT, and the University of Kentucky. Talk abstracts / slides will be posted shortly to the wiki. |
| March 2008 |
REU Site |
Our first round of admits for the NSF REU site are out. We will be doing a second round and will still be taking applicants for this second round for the site as well as project-specific REUs. |
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Ph.D Defense |
Congratulations to the soon to be Dr. Justin Wonziak on his successful Ph.D defense! |
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Server Issues |
Apologies to everyone who experienced issues with connectivity over the past week. We had a catastrophic disk failure on the previous Wiki server and are now running on the new AEG equipment. |
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Journal Paper |
Congratulations to Qi Liao on getting his most recent paper on botnet defense accepted to the Journal of Security and Networks. |
| February 2008 |
Papers Accepted |
Two new papers accepted to the upcoming IEEE WoWMoM conference, one on wireless loss characteristics under 802.11 and another on the power/performance characteristics of USB flash drives. |
| January 2008 |
REU Site |
NSF REU applications are now open. Information on the Experimental Research on Wireless Networking (ERWiN) REU site can be found here. |
| December 2007 |
Equipment Grant |
Our lab has received a Sun Academic Excellence Grant (AEG) to support our work on Lockdown via SunRay thin clients and a new database / SunRay server. The new SunRay thin clients will also support our upcoming REU site. |
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Ph.D Proposal |
Congratulations to Mike Chapple on passing his Ph.D proposal defense! |
| November 2007 |
Downtime |
The web server was temporarily out from Saturday late afternoon to early Monday morning due to a panic of the LOM processor. Hopefully, it is a one time occurrence. |
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REU Site |
Dr. Poellabauer and Dr. Striegel will be the new recipients of a NSF site REU. Registration information for prospective students will be posted shortly here and at the DARTS lab. We will be looking for 10 undergraduate (domestic only) students ranging from current freshman to current juniors. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. |
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Course offering |
Dr. Striegel will be offering an enhanced version of CSE 40422 (Computer System Design) in the spring with special opportunities for students to work on Wifi-enabled cell phones. Juniors and seniors in any field of engineering are welcome to take the course with the pre-requisite of operating systems being waived. |
| October 2007 |
Eye Candy |
Our Lockdown software is now generating nightly graphs of our monitor pool that is displayed on the hallway propaganda monitor. Links to the nightly generated graphs are included as thumbnails. |
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Software |
The first alpha code for the ScaleBox framework is now posted on-line here. |
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Our newest acquisition in the lab is a set of Atmel NGW100 network gateway reference boards. We are looking to see if we can get RIPPS and ScaleBox to run at reasonable speeds for these boards. Features of the boards include dual Ethernet adapters with native microcontroller support, a working Linux kernel pre-installed, and a free developer environment (AVRStudio32). |
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Search |
The search bar and change list are fixed now. The Solaris version of egrep and fgrep were causing problems with TWiki. Various user tools for account maintenance and RSS feeds should also be functional as well. |
| September 2007 |
Stats |
Browse the stats for our web server here. External dynamic access is disabled but enjoy the wonder that is awstats |
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Conference panel |
Slides from the panel Dr. Striegel spoke on at IEEE BroadNets concerning the encroachment of Ethernet into the MAN (Metro Area Network) and WAN |
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Talk |
Talk at NC State on ScaleBox by Dr. Striegel  |
| August 2007 |
Undergraduate research |
Undergraduate research opportunities for the fall semester are listed on the flyer here |
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Masters Defense |
Congratulations to Qi Liao who successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "Improving Network Insight Through Local Context Gathering and Analysis". |
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Operations |
The NetScale wiki has now migrated to its official home on http://netscale.cse.nd.edu. Please update your bookmarks accordingly although re-direction will be enabled for the foreseeable future from the old site. |
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Accepted Poster |
IEEE BroadNets 2007 - Improving Medium-Sized Media Clip Distribution Through Transparent Tail Synchronization |
| July 2007 |
Project Highlight |
Transparent Bandwidth Conservation - Tap analysis results for inbound UDP traffic to wireless network hosts offers peak savings approaching 80% |
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Accepted Journal |
ACM CCR - JumboGen: Dynamic Jumbo Frame Generation for Network Performance Scalability |
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Project Highlight |
Check out the user and application chaining graphs generated as part of the visualization for the Lockdown project. |
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| Students: Andrew Blaich, Qi Liao, Greg Allan, Brian Sullivan |
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Travel Grant |
Andrew Blaich received a student travel grant to attend USENIX Security 2007 in August. He will be presenting our poster on LockDown. |
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Software |
The initial version (1.0) of RIPPS as used for our upcoming ACM TISSEC paper is now available for download. Look for new revisions near the end of the month. |
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