Recent News

• March 2008: We will be receiving a DURIP equipment grant to create an on-campus mesh network and a new simulation back end.
• December 2007: A recent Sun AEG grant will help support our efforts on Lockdown and act as workstations for our summer REU students.
• December 2007: Congratulations to Mike Chapple on passing his Ph. D proposal defense!
• November 2007: Our NSF site REU looks like it will be coming through. Look for 10 REU students between myself and Dr. Poellabauer over the next 3 years.
• November 2007: With a bit of luck, I 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 courtesy of Motorola. Juniors and seniors in any field of engineering at Notre Dame are welcome to take the course with the pre-requisite of operating systems being waived.
• November 2007: I'll be co-chairing a track/symposium/area for IC3N? on Internet Services and Applications with Swami Sivasubramanian of Amazon.
• September 2007: Out to Raleigh, NC for IEEE BroadNets and a visit to Vince Freeh (newly tenured professor in CS, congrats Vince) at NC State
• August 2007: Blogging now for your reading pleasure at Efficient Redundancy
• August 2007: Congrats to Qi Liao on successfully defending his Master's Thesis.
• August 2007: Our group is now accepting new undergraduate student researchers. Please send me an e-mail to inquire. Both options for credit or simple experience are available. Previous programming experience is not required and all levels of undergraduate are welcome to apply.
• August 2007: I am now one with Google calendar. Click the above link although keep in mind that it is a reference, not always perfect.
• July 2007: Out to Washington D.C. for the Cyber Security Research Needs for Open Science Workshop
• July 2007: Paper accepted in ACM Computer Communications Review on Dynamic Jumbo Frame Generation, part of our research on Transparent Bandwidth Conservation (see below)
• July 2007: Enter the Wiki
  • My personal website is now part of the research group Wiki. We'll be migrating to a new server in the next month but one can still link to my page on the CSE or Notre Dame server and have it successfully re-direct wherever the Wiki may be currently residing.

Brief Biography

Dr. Aaron Striegel is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in December 2002 in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University under the direction of Dr. G. Manimaran. His research interests include networking (bandwidth conservation, QoS), computer security, grid computing, and real-time systems. During his tenure as a student at Iowa State, he worked for various companies in research and development that included Sun Microsystems, Architecture Technology Corporation, and Emerson Process. He has received research and equipment funding from NSF, DARPA, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Architecture Technology Corporation, and Intel.

Dr. Striegel was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2004.

Recent Research Publications / Output

Full Publication Listing

• J Q. Liao, D. Cieslak, A. Striegel, N. Chawla, "Selective, short term mining against DDoS attacks", to appear in Security and Communication Networks, 2008.
• C D. Salyers, A. Striegel, C. Poellabauer, "A Light Weight Method for Maintaining Clock Synchronization for Networked Systems," to appear in Proc. of ICCCN 2008.
• Z. Li, Q. Li, A. Striegel, "Botnet Economic: Uncertainty Matters", to appear in the Proc. of The Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS), June 2008.
• C K. O'Brien, D. Salyers, A. Striegel, C. Poellabauer, "Power and Performance Characteristics of USB Flash Drives", to appear in Proc. of IEEE WoWMoM, June 2008 (short paper).
• C D. Salyers, A. Striegel, C. Poellabauer, "Wireless Reliability: Rethinking 802.11 Packet Loss", in Proc. of IEEE WoWMoM, June 2008 (short paper).
• Demo C. Mano, A. Striegel, "Demo: Rogue Wireless Access Point Detection via RIPPS," demonstration at IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008.
• C. Mano, A. Blaich, Q. Liao, Y. Jiang, D. Cieslak, D. Salyers, A. Striegel, "RIPPS: Rogue Identifying Packet Payload Slicer Detecting Unauthorized Wireless Hosts Through Network Traffic Conditioning," in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1-23, March 2008. DOI BibTeX
• Proposal M. Chapple, "Security Managementof Controlled Networks in a Resource-Constrained Environment," Ph. D Proposal, Adviser: Dr. Aaron Striegel, Committee: Dr. Doug Thain, Dr. Nitesh Chawla, Dr. Marina Blanton, Dec. 2007.
• Thesis Q. Liao, "Improving Network Insight Through Local Context Gathering and Analysis," Master Thesis, University of Notre Dame. Adviser: Dr. Aaron Striegel, Committee: Dr. Douglas Thain, Dr. Nitesh Chawla.
• Poster A. Striegel, D. Salyers, D. Moore, Y. Jiang, A. Blaich, "Improving Medium-Sized Media Clip Distribution Through Transparent Tail Synchronization," poster at IEEE BroadNets, Raleigh, NC, Sept. 2007.
• D. Salyers, Y. Jiang, A. Striegel, C. Poellabauer, "JumboGen: Dynamic Jumbo Frame Generation for Network Performance Scalability," ACM Computer Communications Review (CCR), vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 53-64, October 2007. CCR Online
• Chad D. Mano, David C. Salyers, Qi Liao, Andrew Blaich, Aaron Striegel, "SAABCOT: Secure Application-Agnostic Bandwidth COnservation Techniques", in Proc. of IEEE BroadNets, September 2007 (Invited Paper).
• Poster Andrew Blaich, Qi Liao, Brian Sullivan, Greg Allan, Aaron Striegel, Douglas Thain, "Lockdown: Distributed Policy Analysis and Enforcement within the Enterprise Network," poster at USENIX Security, August 2007. Writeup
• J. M. Wozniak, P. Brenner, D. Thain, A. Striegel, J. A. Izaguirre, "Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Prioritized Storage Management in GEMS," to appear in Future Generation Computer Systems, 2007. DOI
• N. Shillingford, D. Salyers, C. Poellabauer, A. Striegel, "Delay- and Energy-Aware Multi-Path Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," to appear in MobiQuitous, 2007.
• M. J. Chapple, N. Chawla, A. Striegel, "Authentication Anomaly Detection: A Case Study On A Virtual Private Network," in Proc. of ACM MineNet, San Diego, California, pp. 17-22, June 2007. Presentation DOI