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Statistical and Learning Algorithms for the Design, Analysis, Measurement, and Modelling of Networking and Security Systems

Author:Muhammad Shahzad Michigan State University
Date:March 05, 2015
Time:15:30
Location:220 Deschutes

Abstract

As the cost of commercial RFID tags has become negligible compared to the prices of the products to which they are attached, RFID systems are being increasingly used in various applications such as inventory control, supply chain management, indoor localization, 3D positioning, object tracking, and electronic toll collection. In the first part of this talk, I will present our work on designing statistical algorithms and protocols for RFID systems to enable new applications in inventory control and supply chain management using the existing infrastructure of RFID systems. Examples of such applications include counting the number of products in a warehouse and identifying any missing products.

In the second part of this talk, I will present our work on passively measuring network performance metrics such as latency, loss, throughput, and jitter with arbitrarily high accuracy. Measurement of these network performance metrics has become extremely important in emerging applications and networks such as financial trading, high performance computing, and content delivery networks because network administrators need these measurements to proactively and reactively troubleshoot network performance problems. Finally, towards the end of the talk, I will briefly go over our work on user security and privacy.

Biography

Muhammad Shahzad is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, under the supervision of Dr. Alex Liu. His research interests lie in the design, analysis, measurement, and modeling of networking and security systems. He is especially interested in RFID systems, network performance measurement, and exploring new modalities to develop behavior based user authentication schemes. His research has been published in top tier conferences including SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, ICSE, and RAID and journals including Transactions on Networking and Journal of Information Science.

Shahzad has served as technical program committee member for IEEE ICNP 2014 and ACM MobiCom Wokshop S3 2014 and is currently serving for ICCCN 2015. He has also served as EDAS Chair for IEEE ICNP 2014. He is the recipient of the Honda Shing Endowed Fellowship and is also one of the two recipients of the College of Engineering Graduate Fellowship at Michigan State University. He won the P@SHA ICT Award in Research and Development category, was runners up for the Human Competitive Award, and was a nominee for the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Award.