Towards Design and Implementation of a Secure Middleware for Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing

Speaker:        Dr. Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
                Marquette University
                USA

Title:          "Towards Design and Implementation of a Secure Middleware
                for Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing"

Date:           Monday, 27 February, 2012

Time:           10:00am - 11:00am

Venue:          Room 3494

Abstract:

As portable devices (cell phones, smart phones, or PDAs), sensors, and
RFIDs have become a part of our everyday lives, most of us are living in a
more pervasive/ubiquitous computing environment. People engage not with a
single device for a specific purpose but with many devices interacting
with each other in the course of ordinary activities. In the wake of such
prevalence of pervasive technology, the interaction among portable
devices, sensors, and RFIDs needs to be continuous and imperceptible.
Pervasive/ubiquitous computing requires a scalable and robust network
which relies heavily on the middleware to resolve communication and
security issues. In this presentation, we introduce a secure middleware
which incorporates device validation, resource discovery, privacy
preservation, secure search and authentication for pervasive/ ubiquitous
computing.


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Biography:

Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed is an associate professor in the Department of Math.,
Stat., and Computer Science at Marquette University, USA. He is also
faculty member of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
Marquette University and Medical college of Wisconsin, USA.  He is a
member of the IEEE, ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society. He completed his
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University, USA in 2003. His
research interests include security and privacy in pervasive computing,
middleware for ubiquitous/pervasive computing, and pervasive healthcare.
He is a recipient of Way-Klinger Young Scholars Award 2007. He has
published 100+ peer reviewed journal, conference and workshop papers.  He
has received 5(five) best paper/posters awards in last four years. One of
them was selected the best from 325 submitted papers. Dr. Ahamed serves
regularly on international conference program committees in software
engineering and pervasive computing such as COMPSAC 10, COMPSAC 09,
PERCOM 08, and SAC 08. He is the Workshops Chair of COMPSAC 2009 and
COMPSAC 2010. He is the Program Chair  of COMPSAC 2011. He was the Program
Co-Chair of WPS 2009 and SPTSA 10. He is the Guest Editor of Computer
Communications Journal, Elsevier. He directs the Ubicomp Research Lab
(www.mscs.mu.edu/~ubicomp) at Marquette University, USA, where he led a
number challenging pervasive computing software and systems. Dr. Ahamed
can be contacted at  http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~iq.