Abstract

The past decade has witnessed an explosive deployment of wireless
technologies. The vast expansion of connectivity by wireless networks
combined with the rapid evolution of highly-programmable mobile
devices, have had strong impacts on our life. Security has arisen as a
major concern in wireless networks. Many crypto-based solutions have
been developed to provide the first line of defense, ranging from
fundamental security services such as authentication and privacy, to
the protection of the infrastructure and the various network
components. Recently, cross-layer security enhancement has emerged as
a promising approach to the unique challenge facing mobile wireless
networks, i.e. mobile devices may be compromised (stolen, reverse
engineered, or forged). The idea is to extract unique and unforgeable
information from wireless communications or mobile devices and supply
such information to other layers for enhanced security. In this talk,
we will discuss this transition and several promising research
directions.


Speaker's Bio

Wenjing Lou received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from University of Florida. She is currently an associate professor in
the Computer Science department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, and a co-director of the Complex Networks and
Security Research (CNSR) lab. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2011,
she was on the faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 2003 to
2011.

Her current research interests include wireless network security and
data security and privacy in cloud computing. She is currently serving
on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. She has
served as TPC co-chair for the security symposium of several IEEE
conferences, including IEEE Globecom 2007, IEEE ICCCN 2009, IEEE ICC
2010, IEEE PIMRC 2011, and IEEE Globecom 2012. She is the
mini-conference co-chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2013, and the panel co-chair
for IEEE INFOCOM 2014. She serves as TPC Area Chair for IEEE INFOCOM
2013 & 2014, IEEE ICNP 2013, and IEEE SECON 2014. She is the lead
co-founder and TPC co-chair for the First IEEE Conference on
Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), held in Washington DC
in October 2013.