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TCIP Presentations & Publications

Posters from the December 2006 External Advisory Committee Meeting (PDF format)

Presentations

Mark Adamiak of GE Consumer & Industrial presented "Utility Communications" on November 15, 2005 as a Grainger Lecture and ITI Special Seminar. His slides are available online in 3 PDF files: "IntelliGrid Architecture ... A System with a View"; "Wide Area Monitoring & Synchrophasors," and "IEC 61850."

Jeff Dagle of the Energy Science and Technology Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, presented "SCADA Security" on September 15, 2005 as a Grainger Lecture and ITI Special Seminar.

Selected TCIP Publications

M. Ahsant, J. Basney, O. Mulmo, A. J. Lee, and L. Johnsson, "Toward an On-Demand Restricted Delegation Mechanism for Grids," Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2006), September 2006, pp. 152-159.

D. Bakken, A. Bose, and C. Hauser, EC Efforts in SCADA-Related Research: Selected Projects. Technical Report EECS-GS-008, Washington State University, 20 October 2006.

D. Bakken, C. Hauser, H. Gjermundrod, and A. Bose, Towards More Flexible and Robust Data Delivery for Monitoring and Control of the Electric Power Grid. Technical Report EECS-GS-009, Washington State University, 7 May 2007.

C. M. Davis, J. E. Tate, H. Okhravi, C. Grier, T. J. Overbye, and D. Nicol, "SCADA Cyber Security Testbed Development," Proceedings of the 38th North American Power Symposium, Carbondale, IL, September 2006, p. 613.

I. Dionysiou, Dynamic and Composable Trust for Indirect Interactions, PhD Dissertation, Washington State University, August 2006.

K.-H. Gjermundrød, Flexible QoS-Managed Status Dissemination Framework for the Electric Power Grid, PhD Dissertation, Washington State University, 2006.

C. A. Gunter, W. H. Sanders, D. E. Bakken, A. Bose, R. Campbell, G. Gross, C. H. Hauser, H. Khurana, R. K. Iyer, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, K. Nahrstedt, D. M. Nicol, T. J. Overbye, P. W. Sauer, S. W. Smith, R. J. Thomas, V. Welch, and M. Winslett, "Trustworthy Cyber-Infrastructure for Power (TCIP)," (online) Proceedings of the Workshop on Research Directions for Security and Networking in Critical Real-time and Embedded Systems, San Jose, CA, April 2006.

S. Hanna and D. M. Nicol, "Implementation and Instrumentation of a Flash-Worm," Proceedings of 2006 DETER Community Workshop, Arlington, VA, June 2006, pp. 91-94.

R. Hasan and M. Winslett, "Synergy: A Trust-aware, Policy-driven Information Dissemination Framework," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2006), San Diego, USA, May 23-24, 2006.

C. H. Hauser, D. E. Bakken, I. Dionysiou, K. H. Gjermundrød, V. Irava, J. Helkey, and A. Bose, "Security, Trust and QoS in Next-generation Control and Communication for Large Power Systems," International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2007, to appear.

C. H. Hauser, D. E. Bakken, I. Dionysiou, K. H. Gjermundrod, V. S. Irava, and A. Bose, "Security, Trust and QoS in Next-generation Control and Communication for Large Power Systems," Proc. International Workshop on Complex Network and Infrastructure Protection 2006, Rome, Italy, March 2006.

W. He, X. Liu, H. Nguyen, K. Nahrstedt, and T. Abdelzaher, "PDA: Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of INFOCOM, 2007, to appear.

W. He, H. Nguyen, X. Liu, K. Nahrstedt, and T. Abdelzaher, "SPDA: Preserving Integrity of Private Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks," submitted for publication.

J. Helkey, Achieving End-to-End Delay Bounds in a Real-Time Status Dissemination Network. Masters Thesis, Washington State University, May 2007.

A. Iliev and S. W. Smith, "Faerieplay on Tiny Trusted Third Parties (Work in Progress)," Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Advances in Trusted Computing: WATC '06 Fall (online), 2006.

V. S. Irava, Low-cost Delay-constrained Multicast Routing Heuristics and Their Evaluation, PhD Dissertation, Washington State University, August 2006.

R. Iyer, Z. Kalbarczyk, K. Pattabiraman, W. Healey, P. Klemperer, and R. Farivar, "Toward Application-Aware Security and Reliability," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 5, no. 1, 2007, pp. 57-62.

P. Johnson, A. Kapadia, P. Tsang, and S. W. Smith, "Nymble: Anonymous IP-Address Blocking," Proceedings of Privacy-Enhancing Technology 2007, Springer-Verlag LNCS, to appear, 2007.

A. Kapadia, P. Tsang, and S. W. Smith, "Attribute-Based Publishing with Hidden Credentials and Hidden Policies," Proceedings of the 14th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '07), p. 179, 2007.

H. Khurana, J. Basney, V. Welch, and R. Campbell, "Operational Security Requirements for Large Collaborative Compute Infrastructures," Proc. of the Trusted Collaboration Workshop (TrustCol), part of CollaborateCom, Atlanta, November 2006.

H. Khurana, M. Khan, and V. Welch, "Leveraging Computational Grid Technologies for Building a Secure and Manageable Power Grid," Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, January 2007, p. 115c.

S. Kirti, A. Scaglione, and R. Thomas, "A Scalable Wireless Communication Architecture for Average Consensus," invited paper, Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), New Orleans, LA, Dec. 12-14, 2007.

S. Kirti, Z. Wang, A. Scaglione, and R. Thomas, "On the Communication Architecture for Wide-Area Real-Time Monitoring in Power Networks," Proc. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2007 (HICSS 2007), Jan. 2007, p. 119.

A. J. Lee, J. P. Boyer, L. E. Olson, and C. A. Gunter, "Defeasible Security Policy Composition for Web Services," Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering (FMSE 2006) held in conjunction with the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006), November 2006, pp. 45-54.

A. J. Lee, K. Minami, and M. Winslett, "Lightweight Consistency Enforcement Schemes for Distributed Proofs with Hidden Subtrees," Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2007), June 2007, to appear.

A. J. Lee, K. Minami, and M. Winslett, "Lightweight Consistency Enforcement Schemes for Distributed Proofs with Hidden Subtrees (Extended Version)," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science Technical Report No. UIUCDCS-R-2007-2839, April 2007.

A. J. Lee, K. E. Seamons, M. Winslett, and Ting Yu, "Automated Trust Negotiation in Open Systems," in Secure Data Management in Decentralized Systems, Ting Yu and Sushil Jajodia (editors), Berlin: Springer, 2007.

A. J. Lee, P. Tabriz, and N. Borisov, "A Privacy-Preserving Interdomain Audit Framework," Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2006) held in conjunction with the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006), October 2006.

A. J. Lee and M. Winslett, "Open Problems for Usable and Secure Open Systems," Proc. Usability Research Challenges for Cyberinfrastructure and Tools held in conjunction with ACM CHI 2006, April 2006.

A. J. Lee and M. Winslett, "Safety and Consistency in Policy-Based Authorization Systems," Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006), October/November 2006, pp. 124-133.

A. J. Lee and M. Winslett, "Safety and Consistency in Policy-Based Authorization Systems (Extended Version)," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science Technical Report No. UIUCDCS-R-2006-2761, August 2006.

A. J. Lee and M. Winslett, "Virtual Fingerprinting as a Foundation for Reputation in Open Systems," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science Technical Report No. UIUCDCS-R-2006-2691, February 2006. (This is a greatly extended version of the conference paper.)

A. J. Lee and M. Winslett, "Virtual Fingerprinting as a Foundation for Reputation in Open Systems," Proc. Fourth International Conference on Trust Management (iTrust 2006), May 2006.

A. J. Lee, M. Winslett, J. Basney, and V. Welch, "Traust: A Trust Negotiation Based Authorization Service" (Demonstration Short Paper), Proc. Fourth International Conference on Trust Management (iTrust 2006), May 2006.

A. J. Lee, M. Winslett, J. Basney, and V. Welch, "Traust: A Trust Negotiation-Based Authorization Service for Open Systems," Proc. Eleventh ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2006), June 2006, pp. 39-48.

A. J. Lee, M. Winslett, J. Basney, and V. Welch, "The Traust Authorization Service," submitted for publication.

M. LeMay, G. Gross, C. A. Gunter, and S. Garg, "Unified Architecture for Large-Scale Attested Metering," Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07), 2007, p. 115b.

S. Myagmar, R. Campbell, and M. Winslett, "Component Composition and Validation for Software Defined Radios," submitted for publication.

S. Myagmar, R. Campbell, and M. Winslett, "Security Challenges of Reconfigurable Devices in the Power Grid," Proceedings of the International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, March 2007.

H. Nguyen and K. Nahrstedt, "Attack Containment Framework for Large-Scale Critical Infrastructures," Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer and Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2007, to appear.

H. Nguyen and K. Nahrstedt, "Data Aggregation in SCADA Networks" (abstract), Proc. 1st Midwest Security Workshop, May 6, 2006.

D. M. Nicol, "High Performance Simulation of Internet Worms," ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, January 2008, to appear.

D. M. Nicol, "The Impact of Stochastic Variability on Worm Detection," Proceedings of ACM Worm 2006, Alexandria, VA, November 2006, pp. 57-64.

D. Nicol, "Models and Analysis of Active Worm Defense," Proceedings of Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Networks Security Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2005.

D. M. Nicol, "Top Speed of Flash Worms Revisited," Proceedings of the European Modeling and Simulation Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, October 2006, pp. 21-30.

D. M. Nicol, "Tradeoffs Between Model Abstraction, Execution Speed, and Accuracy," Proceedings of the European Modeling and Simulation Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, October 2006, pp. 13-20.

D. Nicol, M. Liljenstam, and J. Liu, "Advanced Concepts in Network Simulation," Proceedings of 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2005.

D. M. Nicol, Rose Tsang, Heidi Ammerlahn, and Michael Johnson, "Detection of Nuclear Material at Border Crossings by Correlating Movement and Radiation Measurements," Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference, Monterey, CA, December 2006, pp. 536-544.

D. M. Nicol, Rose Tsang, Heidi Ammerlahn, and Michael Johnson, "Sensor Fusion Algorithms for the Detection of Nuclear Material at Border Crossings," in Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense V, edited by Edward M. Carapezza, vol. 6201 of the Proceedings of SPIE, Orlando, FL, May 2006, pp. 62011O.

K. Pattabiraman, Z. Kalbarczyk, and R. Iyer, "Automated Derivation of Application-Aware Error Detectors using Compiler Analysis," Proceedings of International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS, 2007, to appear.

K. Pattabiraman, G.-P. Saggese, D. Chen, Z. Kalbarczyk, and R. Iyer, "Dynamic Derivation of Application-Specific Error Detectors and their Implementation in Hardware," Proc. of European Dependable Computing Conference, EDCC-6, 2006, pp. 97-108

S. Singh, R. K. Cunningham, S. Cheung, M. Fong, U. Lindqvist, D. M. Nicol, R. Pawlowski, E. Robinson, W. H. Sanders, A. Valdes, B. Woodworth, and M. Zhivich, "Securing Process Control Systems of Today and Tomorrow," Proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Hanover, NH, March 2007.

S. Singh, D. M. Nicol, W. H. Sanders, and M. Seri, "Verifying SCADA Network Access Control Policy Implementations Using the Access Policy Tool," Proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Hanover, NH, March 2007.

S. Singh, W. H. Sanders, D. M. Nicol, and M. Seri, "Automatic Verification of Distributed and Layered Security Policy Implementations Using the Access Policy Tool," submitted for publication.

E. Sparks, A Security Assessment of Trusted Platform Modules, senior honors thesis, Dartmouth College, March 2007.

P. Tsang, A. Kapadia, and S. W. Smith, "Anonymous IP-Address Blocking in Tor with Trusted Computing (Work in Progress)," Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Advances in Trusted Computing: WATC '06 Fall (online), 2006.

L. Wang, Z. Kalbarczyk, W. Gu, and R. Iyer, "An Operating-system-level Framework for Providing Application-aware Reliability," Proceedings of the Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC'06, 2006, pp. 55-62.

Z. Wang, R. J. Thomas, A. Scaglione, and S. Kirti, " Generating Random Topology Power Grids, " submitted for publication.

M. Zhao, S. Smith, and D. Nicol, "Aggregated Path Authentication for Efficient BGP Security," Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2005), Alexandria, VA, November 2005.

 

Online Resources

The following two training applets are the first online educational resources developed under the TCIP project. They are aimed at students in middle and high school. They are classroom-ready and illustrate important concepts in mathematics and the science of electricity and the power grid. Additional applets will be available in the near future.

Educational Lesson #1: Power and Energy in the Home

Educational Lesson #2: Power Grid