Security and Wireless Ad-hoc Networking (SWAN) Laboratory^*

^*Funded by NSF-CRI grant CNS-0454416

Faculty:

Sirisha Medidi                                                  Murali Medidi

Graduate Students:   

                          Jiong Wang                                            Christopher J. Mallery                  

       Lynsey Compton-Drake               Ghayathri Garudapuram                Monique Kohagura

Not Pictured:

       Madhusoodan Parthasarathy

Mascot:

Rowan

Current research projects at SWAN LAB: 

• Energy-efficient Bluetooth scatternets

• Mitigating security attacks in mobile ad-hoc networks 

• Clustering in mobile ad-hoc networks

• Energy-efficient data-dissemination in wireless sensor networks

• Secure, QoS-aware routing in mobile ad-hoc networks

• Localization in wireless sensor networks

• Transport protocols for mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks

Publications

Position Papers:

• Sirisha Medidi and Jose Delgado-Frias,  "Hardware/Software Solutions to Improve Security in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks,"  In Proceedings of NSF workshop on Research Challenges in Mobile and Wireless Security and Privacy March 15-16, Miami FL. (The objective of the workshop is to define and establish a common infrastructure of the discipline and to develop a consensus-based document that will provide a foundation for implementation, standardization, and further research. The workshop focuses on defining directions of future research in the area of security and privacy in wireless networks.)

Past research projects:

• Receiver initiated-MAC for ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

• Return-routability for Mobile IP

• Impact of channel acquisition time on UWB networks

Courses supported by SWAN LAB:

• Pervasive Computing, currently being offered as CptS 580, a special topics course taught by Murali Medidi.

• Mobile Computing in Wireless Networks, CptS 559 (online course web site for Spring '06) taught by Sirisha Medidi.

• Secure Wireless Networks, CptS 556 (online course website for Spring '05) taught by Sirisha Medidi. 

SWAN Lab Graduates:

        2003:

                          Richard Griswold, MS in Computer Science               

                                                                            Thesis: Malicious Node Detection in Wireless Ad hoc Networks

                                                                            Currently with Cyber Security group at PNNL, Richland, WA

                                                                            Mathew Whitehead, MS in Computer Science

                                                                            Thesis: Enhanced Return Routability for Mobile IPv6 Networks 

                                                                            Currently PhD student at Indiana University

        2004:

                         Aniruddha Daptardar, MS in Computer Science

                                                                           Thesis: Meshes & Cubes: Distributed Scatternet formation for 

                                                                                      Bluetooth Personal Area Networks

                                                                           Currently at Ashley Laurent, Austin, TX

                 Sireesh Gavini, MS in Computer Science

                 Thesis: Detection of Packet Dropping Faults in Ad-hoc Networks

                 Currently with Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Pullman, WA.

                 Thind Balvinder Kaur, MS in Computer Science

                 Thesis: A Receiver-Initiated MAC Protocol with Enhancements for Multi-hop Wireless Networks

                 Currently at Microsoft, Seattle, WA

                       Knut-Helge Vik, MS in Computer Science

   Thesis: Quality of Service Routing in 

              Mobile Ad-hoc Networks 

                                                                         Currently Research Associate at University of Oslo, Norway  

       2005:

                       Jon Campbell, MS in Computer Science

                                                                        Thesis: Energy-Efficient Bounded-Diameter Scatternet for

                                                                                   Bluetooth Devices

                                                                        Currently at Microsoft, Seattle, WA

                 Tammy Nguyen, MS in Computer Science

                 Thesis: Context-aware Access Control for Pervasive Computing Environments

                 Currently at Microsoft, Seattle, WA

        2006:

               Roger A. Slaaen, MS in Computer Science

                                                                              Thesis: Cluster-based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks.

            Jin Ding, PhD in Computer Science

            Dissertation: Communication Protocols for Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

            Currently at BroadCom, San Jose, CA

            Yuntao Zhu, MS in Computer Science

            Currently Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, West Campus.

        2007:

                 Yuan Yuan Zhou, Ph.D. in Computer Science

                                                                               Currently at Microsoft, Seattle

                 Peter M. Cappetto, MS in Computer Science