Communication Protocol Design, Implementation and Evaluation
My work on communication protocol design and evaluation has spanned my entire career, but mostly focused on transport, routing and security layers. A sampling of my research papers on this topic are listed below, divided into two sub-topics:
Loss-tolerant and Low-energy Transport Protocols
- B. Ganguly, B. Holzbauer, K. Kar and K. Battle, Loss-Tolerant TCP (LT-TCP): Implementation and Experimental Evaluation, Proceedings of Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) 2012, Orlando, FL, October 2012.
- V. Sharma, K. Kar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. K. Ramakrishnan, A Transport Protocol to Exploit Multipath Diversity in Wireless Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1024-1039, August 2012.
- E. Liri, P. K. Singh, A. Bin Rabiah, K. Kar, K. Makhijani, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Robustness of IoT Application Protocols to Network Impairments, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), Washington DC, June 2018.
- E. Liri, N. Orie, H. Siezar, K. K. Ramakrishnan, P. K. Singh, W. Cai, L. Gerday, K. Kar, G. Lyon, P. Sharma, Communication Energy and Protocol Considerations in IoT Deployments, Proceedings of 2020 IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), August 2020.
- E. Liri, K. K. Ramakrishnan, and K. Kar, A Renewable Energy-Aware Distributed Task Scheduler for Multi-sensor IoT Networks, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems for a Sustainable Society (NET4us '22), August 2022.
Secure Routing and Transport Protocols
- P. Katlic, K. Kar, J. Morris, J. H. Nguyen and R. G. Cole, Design and evaluation of a mass configuration protocol (MCONF) for tactical MANETs, Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2015), Tampa, FL, October 2015.
- P. K. Singh, K. Kar, J. H. Nguyen, and D. Ku, Mass Configuration with Confirmation in Tactical Networks, Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications (DIVANet '17), Miami, FL, November 2017.
- A. Bin Rabiah, K. K. Ramakrishnan, E. Liri, K. Kar, A Lightweight Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for IoT, Proceedings of the 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) - Workshop on Decentralized IoT Security and Standards (DISS), San Diego, February 2018.
- P. K. Singh, K. Kar, Countering data and control plane attack on OLSR using passive neighbor policing and inconsistency identification, Proceedings of 2019 ACM symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM Q2SWinet 2019), Miami Beach, FL, USA, November 2019.
- A. Bin Rabiah, K. K. Ramakrishnan, S. Richelson, A. Bin Rabiah, E. Liri, K. Kar Haiku: Efficient Authenticated Key Agreement with Strong Security Guarantees for IoT, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), January 2021.