Current projects

Adaptive and precise intrusion detection techniques (sponsored by DARPA)

Chin-Tser Huang, PI

Network anomaly detection systems play an important role in improving the trustworthiness of global network-based services. Their accuracy and false alarm rates, however, must be improved before they can be widely accepted for network monitoring and anomaly detection purposes. Furthermore, network anomaly detection system models do not have a highly successful reputation for processing high volumes of network traffic in real-time mode. This project will focus on development of new theoretical models and a research prototype system for rapid on-line network anomaly detection.  

Multiple Instantiations of Dynamic Firewall Rules in BGP Routers (sponsored by University of South Carolina Research and Productive Scholarship Fund)

Chin-Tser Huang, PI

Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and worm attacks have caused increased traffic burden on the communication backbone of the Internet and huge financial losses to enterprises all over the world. This project seeks to integrate firewalls and routers in order to block attacking packets soon after they enter the Internet.

Security Protocols for Wireless Networks

This project is focused on development, verification, and implementation of security protocols that conform to the 802.11 and 802.16 standards and apply to wireless ad hoc sensor networks. Joint work with Dr. Manton M. Matthews.