In spring 2007 Munindar Singh and I chaired the faculty recruiting committee. Thanks to all who participated, and welcome to Drs. Samatova, Anyanwu, and Gu, who joined the faculty in 2007/2008.

Young June Pyun had a paper accepted to Infocom 2007 and another paper accepted to Broadnets 2007. Congratulations, Young June!

Pan Wang and Qinghua Zhang both had AsiaCCS 2007 papers accepted. Congratulations to them!

In 2006/2007 I was a member of the University Library Committee.

Pan Wang successfully passed his PhD Defense in January 2007. Congratulations, Pan Wang!

ICICS 2006 was held successfully in Raleigh in December 2006. Thanks to all who participated.

Qinghua Zhang and Young June Pyun passed their Oral Prelim exams in Fall 2006. Congratulations to both of you!

In December 2006 I presented an invited seminar at UNC-CH on "Attack Tracing Using Timing-Based Watermarking".

In September 2006 I presented at the National Intelligence Community Information Assurance Workshop in Denver, CO.

I was on the program committee of the IEEE /IST Workshop on Monitoring, Attack Detection, and Mitigation (MonAM 2006), Tuebingen, Germany, September 2006.

A proposal to NSF entitled "Metamorphic Worm Detection" will be funded for the period 8/16/06--8/15/08.

A press release about the Cyber Defense Lab can be found here.

Another good link is infosec@ncstate, part of the e-commerce program

My former student Xinyuan Wang is featured in a newspaper article about his PhD research. The newspaper is the Star-Ledger. The link is here.

I have recently stepped down from the Graduate Admissions Committee in the Department of Computer Science.

I will be the general chair for P2P 2006, to be held in August, 2006.

I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of Telecommunication Systems Journal as an Associate Editor.

Prof. Annie Anton and I were featured in a recent article in Results Magazine.

I was on the program committee of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2005, August 2005, Zurich Switzerland). I also attended, presented a paper, and served as session chair.

I was on the program committee of the Fourth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2005) .

I was on the program committee of the 2nd International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing Systems (SDCS-2005) (June 2005, Columbus Ohio).

I finished a two-year term on the University Library Committee in October, 2004. I am beginning another 3-year term in October, 2005.

I was on the program committee for the networking track of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2005 (January 2005, Las Vegas Nevada).

Pan Wang and Qinglin Jiang presented papers at the 7th Information Security Conference in September, 2004.

I presented the paper "Constructing a Balanced, log(N)-Diameter Super-Peer Topology for Scalable P2P Systems" at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2004) in Zurich, Switzerland in August 2004.

In August 2004 I was an invited speaker at ICT'04, part of the US-Korea Conference (UKC) on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, held in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Yan Zhai's paper, entitled " Reasoning about Complementary Intrusion Evidence", has been accepted for presentation at the Applied Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2004).

Young June Pyun successfully defended his MS thesis, entitled "A Super-Peer Topology for Scalable P2P Systems", on August 9. Congratulations, Young June!

Xinyuan Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 26. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!

Prof. Peng Ning (PI) and I received an additional $60,600 from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Integrating Alerts from Multiple Sources Using Bayesian Networks", running from June 01, 2004 to May 31, 2005.

Pan Wang's paper "Storage-Efficient Stateless Group Key Revocation" has been accepted for presentation at the 7th Information Security Conference in September, 2004.

Qinglin Jiang's paper "Certificate Recommendations to Improve the Robustness of Webs of Trust" has been accepted for presentation at the 7th Information Security Conference in September 2004.

Xinyuan Wang received the 3rd place "Grand Prize" in the ACM Student Research Competition. The award was presented to Xinyuan at the 2004 ACM Awards Banquet in New York City on June 5, 2004. A picture of him with the sponsors and other winners is on page 92 of the August 2004 Communications of the ACM. Congratulations, Xinyuan!

Young June's paper "Constructing a Balanced, log(N)-Diameter Super-Peer Topology for Scalable P2P Systems" has been accepted for presentation at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing in August 2004.

I am also a program committee member for ICQT '04 (Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology) (October 2004, Barcelona Spain)

I am a member of the program committee for the 3rd International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (July 2004, New York City).

Fang Feng presented a paper entitled "Explicit Proactive Handoff with Motion Prediction for Mobile IP" at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in March 2004.

Qinglin Jiang presented his paper entitled "Improving Robustness of PGP Keyrings by Conflict Detection" at RSA-CT (Cryptographer's Track) 2004 in February 2004.

Xinyuan Wang won second place in the Graduate Division of the Student Research Competition at ACM SIGCSE, on March 5, 2004, in Norfolk Virginia. Congratulations, Xinyuan! Also see the NC State press release.

Kehang Wu successfully defended his PhD Thesis on Capacity Planning for Multiple Class-of-Service Networks in January 2004. Best of luck to Kehang.

Ranjana Rao successfully defended her MS thesis on "Integration of Routing and Service Location in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" in January 2004 . Congratulations, Ranjana!

Qinghua Zhang successfully defended her MS thesis on "Improved Keyword Search in P2P Systems by Keyword Caching" in December 2003 . Congratulations, Qinghua! Qinghua is continuing on in the PhD program in Computer Science at NC State.

Peng Ning and I received notification of renewal through March 31, 2004 of our grant "Tracing Attacks Through Non-Cooperative Networks and Stepping Stones with Timing-Based Watermarking", making the total funding to date $584,000. This grant is funded by ARDA, and supports the FootFall Project.

I appeared and spoke as part of a panel at a meeting organized by the Triangle Research Libraries Network on "Building Usable Digital Libraries" on December 12, 2003.

Mithun Acharya successfully defended his MS thesis on "NAMONAMAHA: Network Assisted Multicast Overlay Construction Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Applications" in December 2003. Congratulations, Mithun! He is continuing on for his PhD in Computer Science at NC State, with Dr. David Thuente as his advisor.

I spoke at the Southeast Wireless Forum on December 03, 2003 about the topic of "Wireless Security".

I presented a talk on "The FootFall Project" at at meeting of the ARDA IAIC (Information Assurance for the Intelligence Community) program on November 18, in Nashville Tennessee.

Prashant Murthy successfully defended his MS thesis in November 2003. The title was "GTKgREP - Design and Implementation of a Gnutella-based Reputation Management System". Congratulations, Prashant!

My advisee Xinyuan Wang presented a paper entitled "Robust Correlation of Encrypted Attack Traffic Through Stepping Stones by Manipulation of Interpacket Delays" at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2003) in Washington, DC on Tuesday, October 28. (For a nice press release about this conference, click here.)

Groundbreaking for the new Engineering Phase II building on the Centennial Campus took place on Friday, October 24. This building will house the Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments when it is completed in the fall of 2005.