Securing Resource Constrained Wireless Networks

Speaker:	Professor Yuguang "Michael" FANG
		University of Florida Research Foundation Professor
		Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
		University of Florida

Title:		"Securing Resource Constrained Wireless Networks"

Date:		Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Time:		3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre E (Cheung On Tak Lecture Theatre)
		Chia-Wei Woo Academic Concourse, HKUST

Abstract:

Huge interest and demand on information superhighway (the future
high-speed Internet access) have pressed various telecommunications
research fronts and resulted in various kinds of wired or wireless network
clouds of various administrative domains to enable the universal
information access via inexpensive resource-constrained devices. Thus, the
future trend will lead to a new form of Internet consisting of wired and
wireless segments where resource-constrained devices such as palm pilots
and sensors may become integral parts of the Internet rather than
access-only platforms. Moreover, various kinds of applications over such
heterogeneous networks may demand control actions to be taken over such
networks in order to fulfill certain networking missions (such as sensing
and actuation). One of the key design problems is the information
assurance in such heterogeneous networks, particularly over wireless
networks with resource-constrained devices. In this presentation, a novel
approach to addressing the security issue is given. It will be
demonstrated that the ID-based cryptography can be applied to effectively
address various network security problems in the resource-constrained
wireless networks. Recent research progress and future research challenges
will be reported.


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Biography:

Dr. Yuguang "Michael" Fang received a Ph.D degree in Systems and Control
Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in January 1994 and a
Ph.D degree in Electrical Computer Engineering from Boston University in
May 1997. After one year with the University of Texas at Dallas as a
Visiting Assistant Professor, he joined the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology as an Assistant
Professor in 1998. In May 2000, he moved to the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at University of Florida as an Assistant
Professor. He got early promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in
August 2003, and then to Full Professor in August 2005. He holds a
University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship from 2006-2009. He
is currently a NSC Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Information Engineering at the National Taiwan University. His
research interests span many areas including wireless networks, mobile
computing, mobile communications, wireless security, automatic control,
and neural networks. He has published over 200 papers in refereed
professional journals and conferences. He received the National Science
Foundation Faculty Early Career Award in 2001, the Office of Naval
Research Young Investigator Award in 2002, and the 2001 CAST Academic
Excellence Award from the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
(CAST), USA. He has also received the Best Paper Award for his paper in
the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'2006)
and the IEEE TCGN Best Paper Award for the paper in the IEEE High-Speed
Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecom'2002.

Dr. Fang has actively engaged in many professional activities. He is a
Fellow of IEEE and a member of ACM. He is an Editor for several journals
including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazines, ACM
Wireless Networks, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He was
an editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and currently serves
on its Steering Committee. He served as the Vice-Chair for Technical
Program Committee of IEEE INFOCOM'05 and a member of Technical Program
Committee for many conferences including ACM Mobihoc'08, ACM MobiCom'01,
IEEE ICDCS'04 and IEEE INFOCOM (1998, 2000, 2003-2009).