SCONE – the SCOttish Networking Event

SCONE meeting 23-08-2011

Venue

Room: Level 5

Sir Alwyn Williams Building

School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow

18 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ

How to get here

Take the train to Glasgow Queen Street. On arrival, take the right-hand exit from the station (past the ticket office). On leaving the station you should see the entrance to Buchanan Street subway station immediately across the street. Take the subway to Hillhead. On leaving Hillhead station, turn right and walk along Byres Road to Great George Street. Turn right and walk up the hill past the Marks & Spencer, then turn right and walk along Lilybank Gardens. The Sir Alwyn Williams Building is at the far end of Lilybank Gardens, on the left.

Hillhead station is on the left of this campus map, the Sir Alwyn Williams Building is labelled D20.

Time

13.30 – 17.00

Programme

  • 13:30 Introductions

  • 13:45 Invited Talk

    • Saluki: a High-Performance Wi-Fi Sniffing Program – Professor David Kotz, Dartmouth College

  • 14:15 Short Talks (Networking – Routing, Control, and Monitoring):

    • Multipath Flow-Adpative Routing for Data Center Networks – Dr Posco Tso, Glasgow

    • Indoor localization of mobile devices for wireless monitoring – Valentin Radu, Edinburgh

    • Convergence Time of Distributed k-Core on Internet Graphs – Paul Jakma, Glasgow

  • 15:00 Coffee break

  • 15:30 Short Talks (Applications – Naming, Information Sharing, Fraud Detection):

    • Reducing DNS Caching – Professor Saleem Bhatti, St. Andrews

    • Context-based Personalised Settings for Mobile Location Sharing – Dr Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, St. Andrews

    • Risk Analysis for Criminal Context in Information Sharing Policies – Omair Uthmani, Edinburgh Napier

    • Detection Framework for the Reduction of Click-through and ID Theft Fraud in Affiliate Marketing – Mat Miehling, Edinburgh Napier

  • 16.30 Announcements and Discussion

  • 17.00(-ish) Wrap-up, pub, dinner

Talks

David Kotz – Saluki: a High-Performance Wi-Fi Sniffing Program

Abstract: Building a campus-wide wireless LAN measurement system faces many efficiency, scalability and security challenges. To address these challenges, we developed a distributed Wi-Fi sniffing program called Saluki. Compared to our previous implementation and to other available sniffing programs, Saluki has the following advantages: (1) its small footprint makes it suitable for a resource-constrained Linux platform, such as those in commercial Wi-Fi access points; (2) the frame-capture rate increased more than three-fold over tcpdump with minimal frame loss; (3) all traffic between this sniffer and the back-end server was secured using 128-bit encryption; and (4) the traffic load on the backbone network was reduced to only 30% of that in our previous implementation. In this paper, we introduce the design and the implementation details of this high-performance sniffing program, along with preliminary evaluation results. – Paper URL

Biography: David Kotz is the Champion International Professor, in the Department of Computer Science, and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Sciences, at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH. During the 2008-09 academic year he was a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore India, and a Fulbright Research Scholar to India. At Dartmouth, he was the Executive Director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies from 2004-07. His research interests include security and privacy, pervasive computing for healthcare, and wireless networks. He has published over 100 refereed journal and conference papers. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Senior Member of the ACM, a member of the USENIX Association, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his A.B. in Computer Science and Physics from Dartmouth in 1986, he completed his Ph.D in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991 and returned to Dartmouth to join the faculty. For more information see http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/.

 

Fehmi Ben Abdesslem – Context-based Personalised Settings for Mobile Location Sharing

Posco Tso – Multipath Flow-Adpative Routing for Data Center Networks

Paul Jakma – Convergence Time of Distributed k-Core on Internet Graphs

Valentin Radu – Indoor localization of mobile devices for wireless monitoring

Saleem Bhatti – Reducing DNS Caching

Abstract: Traditionally, caching of DNS records has been conservative, using time to live (TTL) values of several hours or days. However, we propose that to support adventurous new capability via DNS, cache times can be reduced to low values, such as 1s or 0s. We present some experimental results to show DNS load with 0s values for TTL and make a request for volunteers to run the same experiment at their own sites!

Omair Uthmani – Risk Analysis for Criminal Context in Information Sharing Policies

Abstract: This presentation outlines of a novel system which maps the information sharing between two domains. It involves the definition of a formalized information sharing policy, which maps the organisation infrastructure which is exposed for the sharing between the domains. A unique element is the additional of a risk context, which is used to define the level of criminal risk involved in the sharing of information. The work shows the results of a survey done within the Scottish Police on the attitudes to criminal risks, and presents a novel system for defining criminal risk which can then be used within the information sharing policy. The work is currently funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR).

Mat Miehling – Detection Framework for the Reduction of Click-through and ID Theft Fraud in Affiliate Marketing

Abstract: This presentation will focus on outlining criminal activity within affiliate marketing related to click-through and ID theft crime, based on real-life crime data. It shows the mechanisms that criminals might use in order to act fraudulently, and presents a framework that has been created in order to detect whether there is a risk from malicious affiliates. The work is funded by the FSA (Financial Services Authority), and aim to overcome some of the risks related to online fraud.

Discussion and Announcements

Please send items to Dimitrios Pezaros in advance

 

  • Colin Perkins: IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize

Attendees

  1. David Kotz, Dartmouth College
  2. Colin Perkins, Glasgow
  3. Dimitrios Pezaros, Glasgow
  4. Posco Tso, Glasgow
  5. Martin Ellis, Glasgow
  6. Stephen D. Strowes, Glasgow
  7. Gregg Hamilton, Glasgow
  8. Kyle White, Glasgow
  9. Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, St Andrews
  10. Saleem Bhatti, St Andrews
  11. Greg Bigwood, St. Andrews
  12. Tristan Henderson, St Andrews
  13. Luke Hutton, St Andrews
  14. Farangis Karimova, St Andrews/Tajik Technical University
  15. Markus Tauber, St Andrews
  16. Yi Yu, St Andrews
  17. Saray Shai, St. Andrews
  18. Marwan Fayed, Stirling
  19. Evan Magill, Stirling
  20. James Nightingale, UWS
  21. Mahesh K. Marina, Edinburgh
  22. Arsham Farshad, Edinburgh
  23. Valentin Radu, Edinburgh
  24. Raffaello Secchi, Aberdeen
  25. Nimbe L. Ewald, Aberdeen
  26. Sonia Panchen, inMon
  27. Stuart Johnston, inMon
  28. Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier
  29. Omair Uthmani, Edinburgh Napier
  30. Mat Miehling, Edinburgh Napier
  31. Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian
  32. Quoc-Tuan Vien, Glasgow Caledonian
  33. Gordon Morison, Glasgow Caledonian
  34. Robert Atkinson, Strathclyde