DIMACS Workshop on Information-Theoretic Network Security

November 12 - 14, 2012
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Yingbin Liang, Syracuse University, yliang06 at syr.edu

Prakash Narayan, University of Maryland, prakash at umd.edu

Workshop Program:

Monday, November 12, 2012

 8:15 -  8:50  Breakfast and registration
 
 8:50 -  9:00  Opening of the Workshop 
               Yingbin Liang, Syracuse University

Session I - Chair: Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs
 
 9:00 -  9:40  The Trade-off between Expected Key Consumption and Transmission Cost in EPS Systems
               Siu-Wai Ho, University of South Australia

 9:50 - 10:30  Reliable and Secure Message Transmission in Networks
               Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary

10:30 - 10:55  Break

10:55 - 11:35  Low Complexity Constructions of Secret Keys Using Polar Coding
               Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton University

11:45 - 12:25  Perfect Secrecy in Bidirectional Relaying
               Andrew Thangaraj, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

12:30 -  1:50  Lunch

 1:50 -  2:00  Director's Welcome 
               Rebecca Wright, Director of DIMACS

Session II - Chair: Prakash Narayan, University of Maryland
 
 2:00 -  2:30  Security in Malicious Environments: NSF's Programs in Information-Theoretic Network Security
               Phillip Regalia, NSF
 
 2:30 -  2:40  Questions
 
 2:50 -  3:30  Almost-Everywhere Secure Computation with Edge Corruptions
               Juan Garay, AT&T Labs  Research

 3:30 -  3:55  Break
 
 3:55 -  4:35  Physical Layer Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
               Wade Trappe, Rutgers University

 4:45 -  5:25  Overcoming Weak Expectations
               Yevgeniy Dodis, New York University

Tuesday, November 13, 2012
 
 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and registration

Session III - Chair: Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland
 
 9:00 -  9:40  On Interactive Wireless Network Security
               Suhas Diggavi, UCLA

 9:50 - 10:00  Secure Degrees of Freedom of Wireless Networks
               Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland

10:30 - 10:55  Break

10:55 - 11:35  Information Theoretic Secret key Generation in WiFi Systems
               Chunxuan Ye, InterDigital

11:45 - 12:25  Brief Encounters with Random Key Graphs
               Virgil D. Gligor, Carnegie Mellon University

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

Poster Session - Chair: Yingbin Liang

 2:00 -  3:30  Student poster presentation

 3:30 -  3:55  Break

Session IV

 3:55 -  4:35  Security of Quantum Key Distribution with Encoding on Optical Phase Shift
               Masato Koashi, University of Tokyo

 4:45 -  5:25  Information Theoretic Security Based on Bounded Observability
               Jun Muramatsu, NTT Corporation

 5:30          Dinner at DIMACS

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and registration

Session V - Chair: Roy Yates, Rutgers University

 9:00 -  9:40  Biometrics: Identification and Authentication
               Frans Willems, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

 9:50 - 10:00  Interactive Secret-Key Generation from Channel Reciprocity
               Ashish Khisti, U. Toronto

10:30 - 10:55  Break

10:55 - 11:35  The Link between Secret Key Agreement and Network Coding
               Chung Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong

11:45          Closing remarks, Prakash Narayan, University of Maryland

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