Prof. George Kesidis

CSE and EE Depts

338J IST Building (office), 115 EE West (lab)

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA, 16802, USA

Email: kesidis at engr dot psu dot edu

Phone: 814-865-9190

Active Projects:

NSF NeTS-WN: Management of Secondary Markets in Deregulated Wireless Networks

G. Kesidis (PSU PI), in collaboration with D. Starobinski and M. Alanyali of Boston U. and S. Sarkar of U. Penn.

Cisco Ltd URP: Per-flow state management in Internet routers: mass purging and heavy-hitter detection

G. Kesidis (PI), C. Das (co-PI)

NSF Cyber Trust: Protecting TCP Congestion Control: Tools for Design, Analysis and Emulation

G. Kesidis (PI), C. Das (co-PI), in collaboration with S. Fahmy and N. Shroff of Purdue

NSF NeTS-NOSS: Controllable node mobility for Mission Oriented Sensor Networks

G. Cao (PI), T. La Porta (co-PI), G. Kesidis (co-PI), C. Das (co-PI)

Recently Completed Projects:

ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Large-Scale Attack/Defense (LSAD), August 27, 2007, Kyoto, Japan (TPC co-chair)

IEEE INFOCOM, May 6-12, 2007, Anchorage (TPC co-chair)

Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models in Wireless Networks, April 16, 2007, Cyprus (TPC co-chair)

IEEE JSAC Oct. 2006 Special Issue on Price-Based Access Control and Economics of Networking (co-editor)

Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), Boston, Nov. 6, 2005

Workshop on Economics of Communication Networks, Montreal, July 2004

            DHS/NSF Cyber Trust: Collaborative Research: Testing and benchmarking methodologies for

future network security mechanisms (EMIST)

            Joint grant with DHS/NSF DETER project

URLs: http://emist.ist.psu.edu and http://www.isi.edu/deter

            PSU and overall PI: G. Kesidis, PSU co-PIs: P. Liu, P. McDaniel, D.J. Miller

Cisco Ltd URP Simulation of Secure Internet Routing Protocols

G. Kesidis (PI), D.J. Miller (co-PI)

            NSF ITR: Robust ad hoc active vision networks and applications

            PI: O. Camps, co-PIs: M. Sznaier, G. Kesidis

NSF ITR Routing of dynamic service-level agreements between inter-domain bandwidth brokers

            PI: R. Acharya, co-PIs: N. Gautam, G. Kesidis

            Cisco Ltd URP Diagnostics and real-time traceback of DDoS attacks in the Internet

            PI: G. Kesidis

            DARPA/ONR MURI Emerging Surveillance Plexsus (ESP)

            PI: S. Phoha; senior personnel: G. Kesidis

Selected Publications on…

Network Games, Pricing, Incentive Engineering

Network Security

Traffic Engineering including Traffic Shaping, Throttling and Scheduling

Performance Evaluation including Simulation

Wireless Networks including Mobility issues

Machine Learning including Applications to Medicine