Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

• DGA-MI: “BGP-like Inter Domain routing protocol for tactical mobile ad hoc networks: feasibility, performances and quality of service.”

  Florian Grandhomme is doing his PhD thesis in the context of a cooperation with DGA-MI. The goal of this thesis is to propose new secure and efficient algorithms and protocols to provide inter-domain routing in the context of tactical mobile ad hoc network. The protocol proposed will have to handle context modification due to the mobility of MANET, that is to say split of a MANET, merge of two or more MANET, and also handle hetereogeneity of technology and infrastructure. The solution will be independant from the underlying intra-domain routing protocol and from the infrastructure: wired or wireles, fixed or mobile.

• DGA-MI: “Visualization for security events monitoring”

  Damien Crémilleux was hired this year as a Ph.D. student on a DGA-MI funding to work on visualization for security events monitoring. The purpose of this thesis it to define relevant representations to allow front-line security operators to monitors systems from a security perspective. A first proposal was made that led to a tool, VEGAS, that allows to monitor large quantities of alerts in real time and to dispatch these alerts in a relevant way to security analysts. VEGAS was presented during the poster session in VizSec 2015 [58] that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the 26th of October 2015.

• Orange Labs: “Data persistence and consistency in ISP infrastructures”

  Pierre Obame is doing his PhD thesis in the context of a CIFRE contract with Orange Labs at Rennes. Pierre Obame has proposed a distributed storage system called Mistore, dedicated to users who access Internet via a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology. This system aims at guaranteeing data availability, persistence, and low access latency by leveraging millions of home gateways and the hundreds of Points of Presence (POP) of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) infrastructure. Pierre Obame has also proposed a mathematical framework for defining both strong and weak consistency criteria within the same formalism. These criteria are offered by Mistore to its clients when they manipulate their data. Pierre Obame, whose PhD thesis is planned to terminate in 2016, is in the process of writing his PhD manuscript so as to defend it in 2016.

• Orange Labs: “Privacy-preserving location-based services”

  Solenn Brunet has started her PhD thesis since 2014 within the context of a CIFRE contract with Orange Labs Caen. Her PhD subject concerns the development of privacy-preserving location-based services that are able to personalize the service provided to the user according to his current position while preserving his location privacy. In particular, Solenn will adapt existing cryptographic primitives (private information retrieval, secure multiparty computation, secure set intersection, $...$) or design novel ones to use them as building blocks for the construction of these privacy-preserving location-based services. A first paper on the development of a privacy-preserving e-toll service based on the partially blind signature has just been accepted for publication.

• DGA-MI: “Security events visualization”

  Christopher Humphries defended his Ph.D. thesis on the 8th of December 2015. This Ph.D. was funded by DGA-MI. The objective of this thesis was to propose new visualization mechanisms dedicated to the analysis of security events, for instance for forensic purposes. Two tools, ELVIS and CORGI, were produced. This research led to two publications in VizSec, which is the most famous venue on the topic of visualization for security.

• DGA-MI: “Alerts correlation taking the context into account”

  The PhD of Erwan Godefroy is done in the context of a cooperation with DGA-MI. This PhD started in November 2012 and is expected to finish in 2016. The current work consists in the automatic generation of alert correlation rules in the context of deployed distributed systems. The correlation rules aim at being used by our GnG correlation system.