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December 2008
Volume 55, Number 5
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE Newsletter”
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The
IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
December
2008
Dec. 4 – “Annual Planning Meeting and Workshop”
by Terry Tamutus, NJ Consultants’ Network,
Dec. 4 – “Acoustic and Ultrasonic Sensing Technologies as
Applied to Structural/ Materials Testing and Process Control Monitor”
by Terry Tamutus, NJ Control Systems, 5:00-6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren &
Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor
Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519, chang “AT” njit.edu.
Dec. 8 – “Reconciling Protocol Mismatches to Facilitate
Web Service Composition” by Xitong Li, NJ SMC Society, 7:00 PM, New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Dec. 10 – “Engineers Meet:
For a Holiday Social”, NJ PACE, GOLD, & WIE,
Dec. 11 – “Timing Covert
Communications: A Method for Keyless
Security” by Dr. Shamik Sengupta, NJ Communications
Society, 6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Dec. 12 – “Adjustable Frequency Drives Seminar”
by Dan Kupersmith, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM to 2:00PM, PSE&G, 80 Park Plaza, Room
101, Newark, NJ. Ronald W.
Upcoming
Meetings
Jan. 7 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
NJ Communications Society:
Timing Covert Communications: A Method for Keyless Security
On Monday, December 11, 2008, the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation titled “Timing Covert Communications: A Method for Keyless Security.” The speaker will be Dr. Shamik Sengupta.
About the Talk
Covert
channels primarily refer to the concept of stealth channel and hidden
information. For example, timing covert
channels are secret operations existing in a normal communication channel where
the output alphabet is constructed from different inter-arrival timing of the
packets. Thus timing covert channels
does not use header or payload embedded information to encode covert
messages. Due to its special capability
of key-less security and camouflaging, covert channels are gaining popularity
recently in wireless networking to secure information. However, currently, there is little
understanding on how such a timing covert networking with multiple timing
covert communications simultaneously would operate so as to make the system
secure from defense and security perspectives amidst foreign adversaries in
dynamic spectrum access systems.
In
this research, we present a game-theoretic framework to model an attack-defense
scenario in tactical network dynamic spectrum access system with multiple
timing covert channels based on cognitive radio nodes. An attacker (eavesdropper), which might
possibly be another cognitive radio node from a competitor network or a
competitor agent (e.g., terrorist organization), wants to sense the real time
secret messaging by sensing/snooping into the spectrum bands and upon
successful detection, tries to destroy (jam) the ongoing timing covert
operations. To defend the attack
successfully, DSA system, on the other hand, can potentially enable multiple
auxiliary cognitive radio node communications in the spectrum bands dynamically
that help the timing covert communications in each of the spectrum bands to
camouflage. We analyze the scenario with
twotier game model: i) sensing game (with passive eavesdropper) and ii) jamming
game (with active destroyer). With
regard to the aforementioned secrecy model, we propose a dynamic minimax
camouflaging strategy for DSA system and sensing and jamming strategies for
attacker to capture the conflict of interest between attacker and the DSA
system, both of whom try to maximize their respective net utilities. We show that even in such a greedy and
non-cooperative behavioral game model, it is in the best interest of the
attacker and DSA system to adhere to the proposed strategies to achieve
equilibrium point. Through numerical
analysis and simulation results, we show that how game strategies can be used
as an effective tool for developing secure timing covert networking based on
DSA
About the Speaker
Shamik
Sengupta (Shamik.Sengupta “AT” stevens.edu) is presently appointed as a
Post-Doctoral researcher in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, with Prof. R. Chandramouli. Prior to that, Shamik Sengupta received his
PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Central Florida in 2007 under the guidance of Prof. Mainak
Chatterjee. His research interests
include keyless security in wireless networking, dynamic spectrum access,
cognitive radio, network economics, auction and game theories, and WRAN
technologies. Currently, Shamik Sengupta
serves on the organizing and technical program committee of several IEEE
international conferences.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 6:00 PM, Thursday,
December 11, 2008. Refreshments will be
available at 5:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
NJ Consultants' Network:
Annual Planning Meeting and Workshop
On
About the Topic
The combined November/December meeting of the IEEE Consultants' Network is intended as a strategic planning event for Network members and for consultants who are considering membership in the Network.
The main purpose of the meeting will be to discuss ideas and expectations for the various Network functions in the upcoming year. Results of the annual election of officers will be announced at the time.
This working session is traditionally an open, informal forum to determine what the IEEE-CNNNJ is doing right or wrong. The floor will be open to suggestions for improvements, recommendations of new Network directions and activities and proposals of new feature topics for the general meetings.
This past year brought many changes in organization the Network and in the scope of its activities of. The discussion will evaluate the effect of these changes and will chart the course for 2009.
Certain major functions performed by the IEEE Consultants' Network are always open to reconsideration and to continuing input. These include:
Ä Focus of our group: publicity efforts and member networking.
Ä
Ä Monthly General Meetings - Suggested feature topics.
Ä Alternate general meeting formats.
The December meeting is open to all. Non-members, who are interested in our activities or who are considering joining the group are strongly encouraged to participate in the workshop to gain in-depth insight into our organization.
Pastries and refreshments will be available during the course of the evening.
As always during the year-end workshops, there will be no pre-meeting dinner for members.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of independent technical consultants by business and industry.
CNNNJ Invites You to Join the Network For 2008
The IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ invites all engineers engaged in independent practice to join its ranks. We have recently revised our membership structure, hoping to make it even more worthwhile to participate.
For more details on member benefits and on sign-on requirements, please visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
All Welcome!
Everyone
welcome! No registration needed! Free admission.
Time:
Place: Aeroflex / KDI-Integrated Products,
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status,
call Robert Walker, 973-728-0344, or visit our website www.TechnologyOnTap.org. Map to KDI: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
NJ Control Systems Chapter:
Acoustic and Ultrasonic Sensing Technologies as Applied to Structural/ Materials Testing and Process Control Monitor
On
About
the Talk
Acoustics Emission and
Ultrasonics are two power techniques for inspection materials and structures. It is also used in process control
applications in pharmaceutical and manufacturing. This presentation will discuss applications
work with Boeing, NASA, Navair, Army, offshore oil platforms, nuclear reactors,
aircraft, concrete, steel, composites monitoring and testing. Other applications include granulation, axle
straightening, transformer testing, leak detection corrosion detection,
metallic and composite pressure vessels.
This presentation will cover current and new sensor development in
air-coupled ultrasonic applications, acoustic emission sensors and MEMS,
wireless and remote sensing systems for data acquisition and several other
applications. This presentation will not
focus on a detailed application but give a broad overview of the non-destructive
testing industry and sensors/data acquisition systems used.
About
the Speaker
Terry
Tamutus has his degree in Mechanical Engineering from NJIT (BS 1987); Terry
joined Physical Acoustics Corporation in 1988.
He is a Corporate Level II and Director at Physical Acoustics Corp.
(PAC) where he has been involved in acoustic emission and ultrasonic
applications for the past 18 years. He
has presented at universities, US Government agencies such as DoD, FAA, NASA, FHwA
and companies including Boeing, Lockheed, power generation and refineries. He has authored several papers on acoustic
emission. PAC has been working with
FHwA, universities and DOT for bridge testing since 1972. This presentation will cover advances in
acoustic emission and ultrasonics.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information: Professor Timothy Chang (973)596-3519, chang
“AT” njit.edu.