Jonathan Ponniah and Dr. P. R. Kumar, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and co-author Yih-Chun Hu, have published a monograph on designing secure protocols with provable security guarantees for wireless ad-hoc networks infiltrated with adversarial nodes. The monograph is titled “A Clean Slate Approach to Secure Wireless Networking.”
The authors note that the current process of designing secure protocols is tantamount to an arms race between attacks and “patches” that does not provide any security guarantees. Motivated by this, they introduce a system theoretic approach to the design of secure protocols with provable security as well as optimality guarantees.
Ponniah is a post-doc who completed his Ph.D. under the advisement of Kumar who is a University Distinguished Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering.