Network Security Analysis for Oblivious Routing Algorithms in Cloud Computing

The recent advances in cloud computing have substantially changed researchers' understanding of computing hardware/software infrastructure and development methods. This fast transition to cloud computing has enabled a plethora of enterprise services for client use, which has also created new security challenges. More specifically, serious concerns regarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of communication and information systems have arisen as a result of rapid transition to the cloud. For example, relocating data through communication systems to the clouds has caused various security and privacy issues that did not previously exist in traditional client/server models. This work jointly with student Kianoosh Boroojeni proposes a novel Oblivious Routing-based Security Scheme (ORSS) which effectively addresses the security issues caused by the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) security attacks related to the data communication in cloud systems. The robustness of this proposed scheme in minimizing the risk of DDoS zombie attacks will be quantified in the form of new paradigms for cloud computing environments.

A detailed theoretical model and the analysis including, an experimental work in the form of simulation will be covered using two well-known oblivious routing algorithms. Preliminary results indicate promising outcomes to this proposed method.

About the speaker

Iyengar is a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, National Academy of Inventors, and SDPS, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences. His publications include 15 authored/edited books and over 500 research papers. His research interests include high-performance algorithms, sensor fusion, and intelligent systems, and his work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI Program), Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, NASA, U.S. Army Research Office, and various state agencies and companies. He has been the editor of several IEEE journals and is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. He has served on the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health panels to review proposals in various aspects of computational science, and he is on the board of reviewers for various computer science and engineering programs.

Event Topic

Distinguished Lecture Series