Speaker: Erol Gelenbe, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IITIS-PAN), and CNRS I3S Univ. Cote d’Azur
“Protecting IoT Servers Against Flood Attacks with Quasi Deterministic Transmission”
Time and Place: Feb. 22, 2024 at 14h30 in Salle Lagrange GRIS, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Online on webex, see information below.
Abstract: Cybersecurity and performance analysis meet in many application areas, e.g. mobile networks, the Internet, and the IoT, due to the extreme network and system overload that is created by any types of attacks such as Botnets, Floods, DDoS, etc. This talk is based on our recent work (Best Paper Award at IEEE Trustcom 2023), and it will summarize how attack detection (AD) methods based on Learning G-networks can very accurately detect network attacks in real time, but also that servers and AD software can themselves be overwhelmed by the overload created by an attack. This leads to our invention of the Quasi-Deterministic Transmission Policy which regulates incoming packet flows so that the AD algorithm may effectively detect and then mitigate the incoming attack. Measurements on a network test-bed will illustrate the results. This work was supported by the Horizon IoTAC and DOSS projects at IITIS-PAN.
Brief Bio: In the 1970s, the speaker founded performance evaluation research at INRIA and French Universities. Alumnus of METU Ankara, Erol graduated over 90 PhDs, and has held full professorships at Liege Univ., Paris-Orsay, Paris-Descartes, Duke University, UCF, Imperial College, and the Polish Academy of Sciences. Recipient of the Grand Prix France Telecom (predecessor of the Orange Prize) in 1996, Erol also received several research awards in Turkey, US, UK, etc. He was awarded Honoris Causa doctorates by the Universities of Roma II, Bogazici (Istanbul) and Liege (Belgium). His honors include the Palmes Academiques, Legion d’Honneur, Commandeur du Merite, as well as Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito (Italy), and Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium). He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, IFIP and of the Science Academies of Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and of the Academie des Technologies (France), Hon. Fellow of the Islamic World Acad. of Sciences (Amman, Jordan), and Member of Academia Europaea.
