The spread of malware has the potential to slow down or cripple wireless services. It poses a particularly inimical threat to a multitude of activities ranging across an entire spectrum from social interaction and gaming, to the flow of commerce and informational services, and, at the largest scale, to national security. Current countermeasures are mostly ad hoc and reactive in that they are used to fend off threats as they arrive or are preemptively discovered.
This project aims to develop theoretical foundations for malware control and counter-measure design in wireless networks by drawing from epidemiological analogues in containment or quarantining strategies for limiting the spread of infectious diseases in human society, and game-theoretic models for interactions among opponents. Optimal power control quarantining strategies that curtail and regulate the spread of contagion by exploiting the broadcast property of the wireless medium will be designed, validated analytically and experimentally, and incorporated in networking protocols.
Journals
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Taming Epidemic Outbreaks in Mobile Adhoc Networks.
E. Hoque, R. Potharaju, C. Nita-Rotaru, S. S. Venkatesh, and S. Sarkar.
Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 24, part A, pp. 57-72, Jan 2015.
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Generating Summary Risk Scores for Mobile Applications.
C.Gates, N. Li, H. Peng, B. Sarma, Y. Qi, R. Potharaju, C. Nita-Rotaru, I. Molloy.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 238-251, May-June 2014.
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Conferences
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Using Probabilistic Generative Models For Ranking Risks of Android Apps.
H. Peng, C. Gates, B. Sarma, N. Li, A. Qi, R. Potharaju, C.
Nita-Rotaru and I. Molloy.
To appear in Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2012), pp 241-252, Oct. 2012.
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Closing the Pandora's Box: Defenses for Thwarting Epidemic
Outbreaks in Mobile Adhoc Networks.
R. Potharaju, E. Hoque, C. Nita-Rotaru, S. S. Venkatesh, and S. Sarkar.
In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2012), Oct. 2012.
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Android Permissions: A Perspective Combining Risks and Benefits.
Bhaskar Sarma, Ninghui Li, Chris Gates, Rahul Potharaju, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Ian Molloy.
In Proceedings of The ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2012.
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Plagiarizing Smartphone Applications: Attack Strategies and Defense Techniques.
Rahul Potharaju, Andrew Newell, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Xiangyu Zhang.
In Proceedings of International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS), 2012. [PDF][BIBTEX]
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Pandora: A Platform for Worm Simulations in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.
Rahul Potharaju, Cristina Nita-Rotaru. In the Poster Proceedings
of 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and
Networking (MOBICOM) 2010, Chicago, USA. [PDF][BIBTEX] |
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Infection Quarantining for Wireless Networks Using Power Control.
Rahul Potharaju. Student Forum, DSN 2010, June 2010. [PDF][BIBTEX]
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- Rahul Potharaju
- Endadul Hoque
This project is funded by the NSF CyberTrust Program, Principal Investigators:
Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University), Saswati Sarkar (UPenn), and
Santosh S. Venkatesh (UPenn).
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