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Topic Name: Battle-hardened wireless network architecture
Category: Telecommunication
Research persons: Michalis Faloutsos and Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Location: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, United States
Details
University of
California, Riverside Computer Science & Engineering Professors Michalis
Faloutsos and Srikanth Krishnamurthy will be designing battle-hardened wireless
network architecture for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of a nationwide
effort to ramp up basic research with potential defense uses.
Faloutsos and Krishnamurthy will be working on a project known as ARSENAL: A
cross layer Architecture for Secure resilient tactical mobile ad hoc networks.
UCR’s portion of the project involves improving the survivability of wireless
communication networks in a battlefield environment. They are part of a team
working from a grant that is being administered through its principal
investigator, UC Davis Computer Science Professor
Prasant
Mohapatra.
At UCR's Bourns College of Engineering,
Krishnamurthy will lead the five-year, $1 million efforts of colleague Faloutsos
and three graduate students who will be developing ways that a wireless system
can determine if lost information is naturally occurring or the result of
sabotage and then devise proper courses of corrective action.
“When you’re talking about the loss of (information) packets in wireless
networks, it’s hard to distinguish what went wrong,” Krishnamurthy said. “With
the sensitivity of the information the Department of Defense handles and the
fact that it is a target, this capability will be very valuable.”
A planning meeting is scheduled in May to more precisely divide the workload
among scientists and students at the partnering institutions:
UCR, UC
Davis, UC Santa Cruz, the
University of Pittsburgh,
Penn. State University,
Brigham Young University and the
University of Utah.
The joint project is one of 36 selected nationwide from a pool of 129. The
Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) is part of a
five-year $207 million effort, of which $19.4 million will be disbursed this
year.
About researcher:
Michalis Faloutsos
Associate
Professor
Engineering Building II, Rm 332
Member of the
Networks and Communications Lab
Computer
Science Department
University
of California, Riverside.
Riverside, California
92521 USA
Office: (951) 827-2480
FAX (951) 827-4643
E-mail: my first name all lowercase @cs.ucr.edu
Srikanth
Krishnamurthy
SRIKANTH KRISHNAMURTHY
Associate Professor of Computer
Science and Engineering
E-Mail:
krish@cs.ucr.edu
Telephone No: 951-827-2348
Address: 334 Engineering Building Unit II,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of California, Riverside, Riverside,
CA 92521
Funded:
The MURI program
supports multi-disciplinary basic research relevant in areas of Department of
Defense activities. The MURI program is highly competitive. The Army Research
Office, the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Office of Scientific
Research solicited proposals in 29 topics and received a total of 129 proposals.
The 36 approved proposals were selected for funding based on merit review by
panels of experts in the pertinent science and engineering fields
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