Projects - Next Generation Networks Lab

LLMs’ Suitability for Network Security: A Case Study of STRIDE Threat Modeling

Project Description Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to be an integral part of next-generation AI-native 6G networks. With the prevalence of AI, researchers have identified …

Analysis of Adversarial Attacks in Network Security

This project enables us to demonstrate the effects of adversarial samples on deep learning-based intrusion detection systems within the context of IoT networks. Our experimental …

Using Machine Learning in Security and Privacy

Our group studies Machine Learning (ML) in network security (as shown in the figure below) and the security of machine learning. Below are some of …

Cybersecurity Challenge Analysis of Work-from-Anywhere (WFA) and Recommendations guided by a User Study

Many organizations were forced to quickly transition to the work-from-anywhere (WFA) model to continue their operations and remain in business despite the restrictions imposed during …

Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) – Projects

Securing RPL Using Network Coding: The Chained Secure Mode (CSM) Considered the preferred routing protocol for many Internet of Things (IoT) networks, the routing protocol …

Investigating QUIC’s Suitability for the Internet of Things

Investigating QUIC’s Suitability for the Internet of Things QUIC is a connection-oriented, stateful, and flow-controlled transport protocol. Instead of identifying connections with IP addresses and …

Privacy in IoT Systems

Privacy Engineering in Smart Home (SH) Systems: A Comprehensive Privacy Threat Analysis and Risk Management Approach Addressing privacy concerns in Smart Home (SH) systems is …

Securing 5G Using Slice Isolation

We study the security of 5G mobile networks and securing 5G using slice isolation. Following are our recent projects on 5G security: Security Analysis of …

Secure 5G Core Network Slicing in Support of IoT Application

The key motivation for this work is that future smart services (e.g. IoT applications) will have competing and perhaps conflicting networking performance requirements. These services …

Resource augmentation in Mobile Cloud Computing

In this research, we address resourced-constrained mobile devices’ ability to get computing support from external sources. This could enhance the performance of their applications and …

Location Verification on the Internet

This research aims at verifying location claims of Internet clients. A wide spectrum of location-sensitive Internet applications could benefit from verifying location assertions. To that …

Adaptive SDN Controllers

In this project, we introduce the use of adaptive controllers into software-defined networking (SDN), and propose the use of adaptive consistency models in the context …