Network resilience in the presence of adversarial behaviour: new systems and models

When?

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 14:00 to 15:00

Where?

39BB02

Open to:

Staff, Students

Abstract:

This talk will discuss some experimental work we have been doing on protecting networks against Distributed Denial of Service attacks based on detection mechanisms and countermeasures on the one hand, and will also summarise some theoretical work on modeling epidemics in networks and systems.

Notes:

Professor Erol Gelenbe was born in Istanbul and he received his engineering degree from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He is the Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair, and Head of the Intelligent Systems and Networks Group in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial College. His current research on autonomic communications from a practical vewpoint on the one hand, and on mathematical models of computer systems and networks on the other, is funded by EPSRC, MoD, and the EU, and he collaborates with industry including BT, Telecom Italia, BAE Systems, GD UK Ltd, IBM, and QinetiQ.

Professor Gelenbe's recent papers have appeared in the Physical Review E, the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, the journal Computer Networks, The Computer Journal, the IEEE Trans. on SMC, and the Proc. IET. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea and of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, as well as a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, and a Fellow of IET. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Rome, the University of Liege (Belgium), and Bogazici University (Istanbul), and was named a Commander of Merit of the Republic of Italy and an Officer of Merit of France. He serves on several editorial boards, and in recent years has given opening keynotes at several conferences in the area of networks including the Next Generation Internet Conference, the international Networks conference, and the Asian Internet Technology Conference. Erol has graduated some 50 PhD students.