Best Student Paper Award IEEE NSS 2014

Our paper entitled “Exploiting the Hard-wired Vulnerabilities of Newscast via Connectivity-splitting Attack” [1], accepted for publication and presented at the 8^th IEEE International Conference on Network and System Security (IEEE NSS 2014), has received the ‘Best student paper award’.

Abstract

Newscast is a model for information dissemination and mem- bership management in large-scale, agent-based distributed systems. It deploys a simple, peer-to-peer data exchange protocol. The Newscast pro- tocol forms an overlay network and keeps it connected by means of an epidemic algorithm, thus featuring a complex, spatially structured, and dynamically changing environment. It has recently become very popu- lar due to its inherent resilience to node volatility as it exhibits strong self-healing properties. In this paper, we analyze the robustness of the Newscast model when executed in a distributed environment subjected to malicious acts. More precisely, we evaluate the resilience of Newscast against cheating faults and demonstrate that even a few naive cheaters are able to defeat the protocol by breaking the network connectivity. Concrete experiments are performed using a framework that implements both the protocol and the cheating model considered in this work.

References

1. J. Muszyński, S. Varrette, J. L. J. Laredo, and P. Bouvry, “Exploiting the Hard-wired Vulnerabilities of Newscast via Connectivity-splitting Attack,” in Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Network and System Security (NSS 2014), Xi’an, China, 2014, vol. 8792, pp. 152–165.
   
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   @inproceedings{MVJB_NSS14,
     author = {Muszy\'nski, J. and Varrette, S. and Laredo, J.L. Jim\'enez and Bouvry, P.},
     title = {{Exploiting the Hard-wired Vulnerabilities of Newscast via Connectivity-splitting Attack}},
     booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Network and System Security (NSS 2014)},
     year = {2014},
     publisher = {Springer Verlag},
     series = {LNCS},
     volume = {8792},
     pages = {152--165},
     month = oct,
     address = {Xi'an, China},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-11698-3_12},
     note = {\textbf{Best Student Paper Award}}
   }