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Thomas LaPorta

  • Director: Networking and Security Research Center (NSRC)
  • Distinguished Professor
360B IST Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-6725

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Education:

  1. Ph.D., Columbia University

Biography:

Thomas F. La Porta received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY. He joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State in 2002. He is the Director of the Networking and Security Research Center at Penn State. Prior to joining Penn State, Dr. La Porta was with Bell Laboratories since 1986, where he was the Director of the Mobile Networking Research Department in Bell Laboratories. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Bell Labs Fellow. 


Dr. La Porta was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine. He has published over 50 technical papers and holds 28 patents. His research interests include mobility management, signaling and control for wireless networks, mobile data systems, protocol design, and security for these systems.

Research Interests:

Mobility Management, Mobile Data Systems including Networks, Protocols, and Applications, Signaling and Control for Telecommunication Networks, Security for Wireless Networks

Selected Publications:

  1. Wang, G., G. Cao, P. Berman, T. F. La Porta. May 2007. Bidding Protocols for Deploying Mobile Sensors. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 6(5):563-576.
  2. Traynor, P., W. Enck, P. McDaniel, T. F. La Porta. September 2006. Mitigating Attacks on Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 2006). pp. 182-193. Los Angeles, CA.
  3. Shin, J., K. H. Lee, A. Yener, T. F. La Porta. August 2006. On-demand Diversity Wireless Relay Networks. ACM Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications 11(4):593-611.
  4. Traynor, P., R. Kumar, H. B. Saad, G. Cao, T. F. La Porta. June 2006. LIGER: Implementing Efficient Hybrid Security Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2006). pp. 15-27. Upsalla, Sweden.
  5. Enck, W., P. Traynor, P. McDaniel, T. F. La Porta. November 2005. Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks. Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'05). pp. 393-404. Alexandria, VA.