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: Collaborative Research: Supporting unstructured peer-to-peer social networking

G. Kesidis (PSU PI), in collaboration with G. de  Veciana of U.T. Austin.

 

NSF NetSE: Unsupervised flow-based clustering

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

 

NSF Cyber Trust and Cyber Infrastructure: Router Models and Downscaling Tools for Scalable Security Experiments

G. Kesidis (PSU PI), in collaboration with S. Fahmy of Purdue and N. Shroff of Ohio State.

 

Cisco Ltd URP: Unsupervised flow-level clustering in network routers for anomaly detection

D.J. Miller (PI) and G. Kesidis (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

         

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

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

 

         

Completed 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.

 

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)

 

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

 

 

Conference and Editing Activity:

 

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

 

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

 

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

 

 

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