John S. Baras

Research Interests

• Performance Improvement and Robustness in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Satellite Overlay
• Routing and Secure Communication in Hybrid Satellite Networks and Inter-planetary Network
• Multicast Routing Algorithms
• Satellite Security
• Network Security

Publications

1. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, John S. Baras and Michael Hadjitheodosiou, "An authentication framework for a hybrid satellite network with resource-constrained nodes," International Conference on Space Information Technology (ICSIT'2005), Wuhan, China, November 19-20, 2005.
2. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, Michael Hadjitheodosiou, John S. Baras and Nicolas Rentz, "Hybrid Networks with a Space Segment - Topology Design and Security Issues," IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2005), Atlantic City, USA, October 17-20, 2005.
3. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, Michael Hadjitheodosiou, John S. Baras and Nicolas Rentz, "Modeling and Design of a Communication Architecture Supporting Lunar Exploration," 23rd AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2005), Rome, Italy, September 25-28, 2005.
4. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, John S. Baras, Michael Hadjitheodosiou and Spyro Papademetriou, Security issues in hybrid networks with a satellite component, IEEE Wireless Communications, Volume 12 , Issue 6, 50 - 61, Dec. 2005.
5. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and John S. Baras, A Certificate-based Light-weight Authentication Algorithm For Resource-constrained Devices, CSHCN TR 2005-4, Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks, College Park, MD, 2005.
6. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and John S. Baras, Key Management for Secure Multicast in Hybrid Satellite Networks, Proceedings of the 19th IFIP International Information Security Conference (SEC 2004), Toulouse, France, August 23-26, 2004.
7. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and John S. Baras, Framework for IP Multicast in Satellite ATM Networks, Proceedings of 22nd AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference and Exhibit (ICSSC) 2004, paper number AIAA-2004-3176, Monterey, California, May 9-12, 2004.
8. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, IP Routing and Key Management for Secure Multicast in Satellite ATM Networks, Masters Dissertation, ISR, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2004.
9. Dharmaraju, D., Roy-Chowdhury, A., Hovareshti, P. and Baras, J.S., INORA-a unified signaling and routing mechanism for QoS support in mobile ad hoc networks, Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 18-21 Aug. 2002.

Internships

• Senior Engineer, Cerona Networks Corporation (www.cerona.com), Frederick, MD, June 2006-Present.
• Summer Intern, Network Equipment Technologies (net.com), Fremont, California, June 2001-August 2001.
  

Contact Information

Office Address:

AVW 3182
A.V. Williams Building 115
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742.
Phone: 301 - 405 - 6561

Email: ayan@nospam.umd.edu - Please remove "nospam." from email address

Personal Webpage: http://www.isr.umd.edu/~ayan