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I2 Lab Distinguished Seminar Series
On Securing Networked Real-Time Embedded Systems
Dr. Kang G. Shin
Monday, April 2, 2007
4:00PM ~ 5:15PM, Harris Engineering Center 125
Abstract
There has been an exponential growth of applications that rely on diverse types of embedded real-time end systems and devices, such as smart phones, play stations, home appliances, consumer and industrial electronics, smart sensors and actuators. These applications require diverse types of Quality-of-Service (QoS) including timeliness, dependability, security and privacy, from the end systems/devices which are usually networked together via heterogeneous networking technologies and procotols.
We now know how to guarantee timeliness and, to a lesser extent, how to provide fault-tolerance, on both end systems and their interconnection networks. However, how to secure them is far less known, despite the growing importance of protecting information stored in the end systems/devices and exchanged over their interconnection networks. Morever, timeliness, fault-tolerance, security and privacy---which I call simply QoS---must be supported simultaneously, often with a tight resource budget such as memory, computation and communication bandwidth, and battery power. Also, different applications require different combinations of QoS components, and hence, one-fits-all solutions are not acceptable. This talk will cover issues and approaches to the problems of securing networked embedded systems.
Short Bio
Dr. Kang G. Shin is the Kevin and Nancy O¡¯Connor Professor of Computer Science and founding director of the Real-Time Computing Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His current research focuses on QoS-sensitive networking and computing as well as on embedded real-time OS, all with emphasis on timeliness, dependability, and security. He has supervised the completion of 54 PhD theses and authored/coauthored more than 630 technical papers and numerous book chapters in the areas of distributed real-time computing and control, computer networking, fault-tolerant computing, and intelligent manufacturing. He has coauthored (jointly with C.M. Krishna) a textbook Real-Time Systems (McGraw Hill, 1997). He has received a number of best paper awards, including the IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award in 2003 and an Outstanding IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control Paper Award in 1987. He has also received several institutional awards, including the Research Excellence Award in 1989, Outstanding Achievement Award in 1999, Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 2001, and Stephen Attwood Award in 2004 from The University of Michigan; a Distinguished Alumni Award of the College of Engineering, Seoul National University in 2002; 2003 IEEE RTC Technical Achievement Award; and the 2006 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering. He is a fellow of the IEEE.
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