NEtwork Performance and Security Research Group @ IMT Lille Douai

Research Goals

Our research at NEPS aims at resolving the tensions between performance and security in different types of computer and communication networks and services, with current focuses on the following scenarios, 

• • Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)

  • Data Centre Networks (DCN) 

  • IoT systems and networks, e.g., smart home, industrial IoT

  • Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), e.g., eHealthcare systems and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

The research topics cover anomaly detection, security management, trust and reputation management, security protocols, and so on. We are endeavored to develop multidisciplinary solutions with provable properties and solid theoretic foundations (e.g., machine learning, data mining, statistics & probability theory,  applied cryptography, software engineering). The designs are prototyped and validated by simulations and experiments using particular tools, platforms and testbeds, ensuring that they can be seamlessly and unobtrusively integrated into the life cycles of the protected assets without incurring performance penalties. 

Team Members

• Zonghua Zhang (Professor, IMT Lille Douai, CNRS UMR 5157 SAMOVAR Lab)

• Ahmed Meddahi (Professor, IMT Lille Douai)

• Qipeng Song (Postdoc, 1/12/2017-31/07/2019) 

• Montida Pattaranantakul (Postdoc, IMT Lille Douai; 01/07/2016 - 30/09/2019)

Research Topics

• Autonomic cyberdefense, software-defined security

• Anomaly detection, root cause analysis, network forensics

• Security management, security evaluation, attack modelling and evaluation 

• Network performance evaluation

• Reputation management, trust management 

• Data privacy and security protocols

Research Projects

• PHC MAIMONIDE: Ultra-lightweight authentication system for IoT

  • 2019-2020

  • Sponsors: MEAE and MESRI, France 

• DeepSEC: Building next generation networking platform for Cybersecurity research and education 

  • 2018-2018

  • Internal grant of IMT Lille Douai 

• Deep learning empowered network forensics in SDN-enabled IoT networks  

  • From October 2017 to now 

  • IMT Futur & Ruptures grant for Ph.D. thesis, in collaboration with Telecom SudParis

• SecMANO: NFV based Security MAnagement and Orchestration 

  • June 2015 - December 2018

  • External research contract of Orange Labs 

• Trust and privacy issues in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) 

  • In collaboration with MMU of UK, and BJTU of China

Our Collaborators

• • CNRS UMR 5157 SAMOVAR Lab (IMT, Télécom SudParis)

  • Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU)

  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)

  • Peking University

  • MMU, UK

• Orange Labs

Alums

• Montida Pattaranantakul (Ph.D. student, Univ. of Paris Saclay, defense on 21/06/2019)

• Yuchia Tseng (PhD student, Univ. of Paris V; Univ. of Paris V; graduated on June 25th, 2018) 

  • Rishikesh Sahay (PhD student, Univ. of Paris 6; Joint supervision with: Hervé Debar, Gregory Blanc, Télécom SudParis; defense on 14/11/2017)

• Dominique Dautriche (Master student, intern, 02/2017 - 07/2017) 

News

• ICICS 2018- the 20th International Conference on Information and Communications Security will be organized by us, from Oct. 29 to Oct. 31, 2018 ! 

• A workshop dedicated to Cybersecurity host by NEPS will be held on April 10, 2018 !  

• From Dec. 2 to Dec. 10, 2018, Zonghua visited BUPT of Beijing and participated ICICS 2017. 

• On Dec. 1, Dr. Qingpeng Song from IMT Atlantique joins us for 1 year postdoc research 

  • In August, 2017, Zonghua Zhang visited 5 universities and institutions in China: Beijing Jiaotong University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chinese Academia of Sciences (Hefei), Nanjing Univ. of Posts & Telecommunications, and Jiangsu Industrial Technolohy Research Institute

• Dr. Soufiene Djahel, Senior Lecturer of MMU, UK visits our group from 3rd April to 7th April, 2017   

• We'll be attending NFV World Congress 2017 at San Jose, USA during 2nd - 6th May, 2017

• Best paper of ACM SDN-NFV security workshop 2017, and selected for NFV world congress 2017

• Outstanding student paper award received at 17th PDCAT, Guangzhou, Dec. 18, 2016

• Zonghua delivered a Keynote speech at the 11th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS), 5th-7th September 2016, Roscoff, France

• Zonghua delivered a keynote speech at IEEE ISNCC 2016, 11th - 13th May, Hammamet, Tunisa

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