RESEARCH AREAS

The Networking and Security (NetSec) lab at UCF serves wide-ranging areas in the networking community including security, distributed computing, wireless networks, and modelling and simulation. Current and past research projects include: Cognitive Network Protocols, ATM Gigabit Network Testbed, Distributed Interactive Simulation, Intelligent Simulation with Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Performance Evaluation of RAID Systems, Vehicle Classification from Laser Images, Neural Networks and Image Processing, and Biological Modeling. Current and past funding agencies include: NAWCTSD, ARO, Stricom, Lucent/Cirent, NSF, Harris, Adaptec,/DPT, I4 Corridor, SEO, Giganet, Trendium, and Thammasat University of Thailand. Researchers @ NetSec work in the following areas:

Distributed Computing

High level architecture, grid computing, distributed databases, link to NetSec's distributed computing resources is here

Network Protocols

MAC, routing, multicast algorithms, concurrency control, network protocols for real-time applications

Network Security

Encryption, formal verification, viruses, phishing, intrusion detection

Wireless Networks

802.11, Wimax resource allocation, routing, cross-layer issues

Optical Networks

Resource allocation, performance evaluation, routing

Modeling and Simulation

Soft-body simulation, parallel simulation of wireless networks, simulation of particle systems

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Guha (guha@eecs.ucf.edu) or Dr. Bassiouni (bassi@eecs.ucf.edu)

(Site Updated: May 01,2008)