Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Systems

Cybersecurity is the state of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this. Cyber-Physical Systems, or "smart" systems, are co-engineered interacting networks of physical and computational components. These systems will provide the foundation of our critical infrastructure, form the basis of emerging and future smart services, and improve our quality of life in many areas.

Dr. Farah Kandah created a a solution to supporting high traffic demand by using Software-Defined Networking (SDN). This network is designed to identify traffic patterns and ultimately building virtual slices. Dr. Kandah included his students in the SDN project by writing simulation experiments, building a physical testbed in the lab, and running experiments to evaluate performance.

In 2019 and moving forward, Dr. Kandah plans on extending his expertise by discovering new areas in the Cybersecurity field and wants to collaborate with his findings.

Research Thrust Lead:

Team Members

• Anthony Skjellum
• Mike Ward
• Daniel Loveless
• Donald Reising
• Amani Al-Tarawneh
• Sai Medury
• Brennan Huber
• Jacob Coleman
• Adam Dean
• Jonathan Hunter
• Savaughn Orr
• Tom Hershburg
• IMSA

Current Projects

• Cybersecurity
• Software-defined network
• Blockchain
• Connected Autonomous Vehicles in Smart Cities
• Hardware-Software Codesign Approach
  • Trust Management
  • RF-DNA fingerprinting

Selected Publications

1. F. Kandah, A. Altarawneh, B. Huber, A. Skjellum, and S. Medury, "A Human-Understandable, Behavior-based Trust Management Approach for IoT/CPS at Scale," Int. J. of International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), In Press (2020).
2. F. Kandah, I. Ozcelik, and B. Huber, "MARS: Machine Learning Based Adaptable and Robust Network Management for Software-defined Networks," In 2020 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) - Accepted 2020.
3. A. Altarawneh, T. Herschberg, S. Medury, F. Kandah, and A. Skjellum, "Buterin’s Scalability Trilemma Viewed Through a State-change-based Classification for Common Consensus Algorithms," In 2020 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) - Accepted 2020.
4. J. Coleman, F. Kandah, and B. Huber, "Behavioral Model Anomaly Detection in Automatic Identification Systems (AIS)," In 2020 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) - Accepted 2020.
5. F. Kandah, B. Huber, A. Altarawneh, S. Medury and A. Skjellum, "BLAST: Blockchain-based Trust Management in Smart Cities and Connected Vehicles Setup," 2019 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Waltham, MA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-7.
6. Farah Kandah, Donald R Reising, Anthony Skjellum, Amani Altarawneh, and Joseph Cancelleri, "A Hardware-Software Codesign Approach to Identity, Trust, and Resilience for IoT/CPS at Scale," 2019 International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019, pp. 1125-1134.
7. Farah Kandah, Brennan Huber, Anthony Skjellum, and Amani Altarawneh, "A Blockchain-based Trust Management Approach for Connected Autonomous Vehicles in Smart Cities," 2019 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), pages 0544–0549, Jan 2019.