Prof. Misra and Rubenstein obtain NSF CyberTrust grant to study routing security
08/09/2006
Prof. Vishal Misra (Computer Science) and Prof. Dan Rubenstein (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) won a highly-competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberTrust grant to study the security of network routing protocols.
The grant extends over three years and is entitled "Understanding Control Plane Security: The Method of Strong Detection". The research seeks to further development of a methodology for measuring the inherent security of the control plane component of existing and future network routing protocols. The approach has a significant theoretical component: it looks at general classes of routing protocols and show how they can be analyzed for their ability to monitor themselves. It uses our proposed technique of Strong Detection to reveal bounds on the kinds of errors that these classes of routing protocols can detect. Hence, the research will be identifying complexity classes of routing protocols in terms of their self-monitoring abilities.