1. Security and Resilience in Wireless Communications Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Prof. Michele Nogueira
Dublin, Ireland
February 25, 2015

2. About me Ph.D. in Computer Science (2009) Visiting researcher
LIP6 – UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France
Advisor Guy Pujolle
Visiting researcher
During graduation
Georgia Institute of Technology (GeorgiaTech), USA
Mentor Ian F. Akyildiz
Post-doc (end of 2009)
Telecom ParisTech
Professor (since August 2010)
Federal University of Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil)

3. Federal University of Paraná Where is Curitiba?
South Brazil
State of Paraná
Population of approx. 2 million
Close to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

4. Some pictures

5. Federal University of Paraná
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)
Started in 1912
7 campi
Courses: 66 undergraduate, 45 graduate, and others
Department of Informatics
Undergraduate
Graduate
Computational intelligence
Information technology
Computer network and distributed systems

6. NR2 Research Team NR2 – Wireless and Advanced Networks Started at 2007
Members
Professors: 3 permanents and 4 collaborators
Students: Ph.D., Master degree, undergraduate
Research domains
Network management
Security, dependability and resilience
Wireless communication
Performance analysis

7. Mission statement
Keep wireless communication systems reliable, secure and cost-effective
Different levels of the protocol stack that support communication
MAC, routing, application layers
Targets: problems related to network management, security, reliability, resource consumption
Focused on wireless networks, as well as on the interoperability of those networks
Produce solutions based on multidisciplinary aspects

8. Resilient Routing REMAR Resilient routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
Experimentations
Backbone of support for other networks: VANETs and sensor

9. Security in Cognitive Radio
Primary User Emulation (PUE) attacks
Denial of Service – DoS
Malicious User (PUE attack) SU SU
Primary Base Station PU
CRAHN
PRIMARY NETWORK

10. Synchronization in Cognitive Radio
Cognitive Radio Network
Cooperation between NR2 and North Carolina University at Charlotte, USA
Best paper award WPMC 2012: “A simple bio-inspired time synchronization protocol for CRHANs.”

11. Other Works Survivable communication systems MAC, routing, end-to-end
Reliable quorum systems for dynamic environment
Self-adaptive sensor data modeling
Self-adaptive communication
Security on self-organized
Wireless effective infrastructure
Network diagnosis

12. Other initiatives Partnership with industries Book – Mobile HealthCare
UFPR International Affairs Office
Programs for good undergraduation students to promote collaboration between international researchers on the Ph.D.

13. Pictures from members

14. Pictures from members

15. Websites and Contact www.ufpr.br www.nr2.ufpr.br www.bionet.ufpr.br
Prof. Michele Nogueira