John S. Baras

Research Interests

• Wireless networks, satellite networks, network routing, network performance analysis, network security, authentication protocols, security performance analysis, systems engineering, systems analysis and integration, software development, software testing, embedded systems programming.

Publications

1. "Energy-efficient Source Authentication for Secure Group Communication with Low-Powered Smart Devices in Hybrid Wireless/Satellite Networks," Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and John S. Baras, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, to appear December 2010.
2. "Performance-aware Security of Unicast Communication in Hybrid Satellite Networks," Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and John S. Baras, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009 (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009. 
   
3. "A Lightweight Certificate-based Source Authentication Protocol for Group Communication in Hybrid Wireless/Satellite Networks," Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and John S. Baras, Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 30-December 4, 2008. 
   
4. "Improving Network Performance in Hybrid Wireless Networks Using a Satellite Overlay," Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and John S. Baras, Proc. 13th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference, Turin, Italy, 2007. 
   
5. "Security Issues in Hybrid Networks with a Satellite Component," Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, John S. Baras, Michael Hadjitheodosiou and Spyro Papademetriou, IEEE Wireless Communications magazine, December 2005. 

Internships

• Senior Engineer, Cerona Networks Corporation (www.cerona.com), Frederick, MD, June 2006-June 2008.
• Summer Intern, Network Equipment Technologies (net.com), Fremont, California, June 2001-August 2001.
  

Contact Information

Office Address:

AVW 2251
A.V. Williams Building 115
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742.
Phone: 301-405-6593

Email: ayan@umd.edu

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