SECAN-LAB: INTEROPERABILITY LAB FOR SECURITY IN AD-HOC NETWORKS

The SECAN-LAB is a research group which associates researchers and resources from the NetLab, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT) with members from the Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) at the University of Luxembourg, and with partners from industry and other research institutes. Research interests of the SECAN-LAB group focuses on interoperability and security aspects of spontaneously-created and self-organized non-centralized networks.

Other research topics of the SECAN-LAB lie in:

- interoperability of one-to-one communications,

- scalability of ad-hoc networks with respect to its number of participants,

- tolerance of the network to a certain proportion of malicious and unfair participants,

- linking of ad-hoc networks with wired LANs.

The lab combines its academic research in the areas of security, privacy and identity handling in distributed environments with application of the resulting technology, which is motivated by and integrated into a number of national and EU funded projects covering a large variety of application areas and reference scenarios. Current research activities include graph-based detection of network attacks and malware, anonymity protocols and fingerprinting for distributed environments. A second major research direction focuses on peer-to-peer networks, agile communication for optimized car traffic, cloud security and formal modelling techniques based on algebraic graph transformations for security, compliance and conformance checks.

Alongside its focus on theoretical analysis and development of solutions, the lab also sees itself as a laboratory for practical experiments with newest mobile devices, especially for securing one-to-one communications within an n-hop distance.

Teaching and supervision of both Master of Science and doctorate-level students rank high in the group's activities. With a significant number of Master of Science thesis and current PhD students, SECAN-LAB energetically pursues a strong educational policy and actively combines state-of-the-art research with the training of next generation of high-class researchers.

The group also engages in strong cooperative research activity by direct and peer-to-peer interactions with relevant industrial actors, among them Luxembourg EPT, ESA, CETREL, BCEE, Telindus, Red Dog, Ville de Luxembourg, and SES ASTRA, resulting in jointly-funded Ph.D students and significant technology transfer.

NETLAB

The NetLab is a sub-structure of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. NetLab addresses both fundamental and applied research activities in computer networking and security. Its main research activities cover the security issues of the future Internet and address in particular way topics related to trust management for the Internet of things, emerging protocols for space and satellite communications as well as work for the current security threats in the Internet.