Mohamed Ali KAAFAR University of Liège Institut Montéfiore Bât. B28 B - 4000 Liège 1, Belgium Tél : + 32 4 366 26 65 http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/ kaafar/ ma.kaafar@ulg.ac.be RESEARCH INTERESTS EDUCATION Networks Security and Anomaly detection Design and implementation of Robust communication protocols Performance modeling Network topology inference and measurements Since October 2007 Post-Doctoral researcher at the Research Unit in Networking (RUN) at the University of liege, Belgium. Host: Prof. Guy Leduc. 2004-2007 PhD in Computer Science, University de Nice Sophia Antipolis, at the french National Institute for research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) Sophia Antipolis, PLANETE team Thesis title : SECURING INTERNET COORDINATES-BASED SYSTEMS. Advisors : Walid Dabbous & Thierry Turletti committee: President : Jean paul Rigault(Professor at université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Fr) Reviewer : Jon Crowcroft (Professor at university of Cambridge, U.K) Reviewer : Serge Fdida (Professor at university Pierre & Marie Curie Paris 6, Fr) Member : Katia Obraczka (Professor at university of California Santa Cruz, USA) Member : Farouk Kamoun (Professor at university of Manouba, Tn) Member : Laurent Mathy (Professor at university of Lancaster, U.K) Keywords : Anomaly detection, Network positioning systems, Overlay networks, Security, Performance Evaluation, Experimentations, Internet protocols. 2004 Master degree in Networking, Images & Multimedia, École Nationale des Sciences de l Informatique(ENSI), Cristal laboratory, TN Thesis Title : A NOVEL AUTHENTICATION APPROACH FOR IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS GPA: 18/20 Advisor : Prof. Farouk Kamoun Keywords : Authentication, Wireless networks, IEEE 802.1x and IEEE 802.11 standards, Kerberos protocol. Courses taken include : Network Protocols, Internet Programming, Broadband Network Architectures, Advanced Topics in Computer Networks, Queuing Theory and Performance Modeling, Random Processes, Digital Signal Processing.
2 2000-2003 Computer Science Engineering degree, École Nationale des Sciences de l Informatique (ENSI), TN Broad curriculum in computer science with emphasis on computer networks, internet-programming, communications, computer engineering, digital and analog circuits, etc. GPA: 17/20, Rank: 3/115 1998-2000 Preparatory Institute for Engg. studies: Mathematics- Physics, TUNIS, TN WORK EXPERIENCE February 2008, Visiting researcher at l Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Ch), Presented a seminar to the Computer Communications and Applications Laboratory group : Security of overlay networks, to what content is it extended to wireless and vehicular networks? November 2007, Invited by Prof. Bernhard Plattner to give a seminar in l Institut Suisse Fédéral des Technologies de Zurich, (ETH Zurich, Ch) : Securing distance prediction systems. October 2007, Expert Engineer at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Planet project. September 2006 January 2007, Polytechnic School of Sophia Antipolis, TIM Master. Teaching and supervising laboratory sessions: Overlay networks, topology Inference courses. May 2006, Visiting Scholar, Computing Department, Infolab 21, university of Lancaster, UK. Advisor: Dr. Laurent Mathy. March 2004- September 2004, Network administrator and project leader, CTKD, Tunis; Tunisia. Managed a group of 5 Software developers. September 2003-March 2004, Software Engineer, SoftM, Tunis, Tunisia 2003-2004, Assisting in teaching Security in Wi-Fi and Ad-hoc networks courses, Supervising C++ programming laboratory sessions (INSAT, ENSI). Research Assistant in technologic sciences at Institut Supérieur des Etudes Technologiques (Mahdia): Teaching and supervising laboratory sessions: Internet protocols, P2P networks. AWARDS TECHNICAL SKILLS Industrial Development Chamber of Tunisia (CID) AWARD 2003. Best final academic project, offered yearly. Best master thesis project, ENSI, 2004. INRIA 3 years grant to carry out PhD research. Finalist for the best student paper award of IEEE IWQoS 2006. Postdoc fellowship grant from ERCIM - The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. Platforms : Windows, Linux, Solaris. Languages : C, C++, Java, Perl, Unix Shell and network programming. Others : Ns-2, p2psim, GloMoSim, Matlab, Mathematica. Software Projects : 1. Implemented a secure, and large-scale network positioning service, within the Onelab project (C/C++, 40690 source code lines). http://svn.one-lab.org/svivaldi/
3 2. Implemented LCC, an overlay multicast protocol as a library, wrappers allowing hybrid-multicast deployment (C/ C++, unix scripts, 58552 code lines). http://planete.inria.fr/software/lcc/ 3. Open Source project contributor: open1x, for authentication in IEEE 802.1x, Open Source project contributor for HostAP, a host-based access point implementation. http://open1x.org ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Belgian delegate of the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and technical Research COST, 2008. Reviewer to several International Conferences IEEE IWQoS 2006, Networking 2005, CFIP 2006, CoNext 2007, ATC 2007. Co-advising two PhD students, F. Cantin at the University of Liege (with Prof. Guy Leduc), and C. Mrabet at the university of Manouba (with prof. Farouk Kamoun), 2006-2008. TPC member of shadow CoNext 07, shadow CFIP 08 Member of the final studies projects commission of evaluation at ISET, 2004. Network administrator at Cristal lab. 2003-2004. LANGUAGE SKILLS REFERENCES Member of the organisation committee of Medhoc Net 2003, Mahdia. English, French, Arabic, German (basic knowledge) Dr. Walid Dabbous INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 route des lucioles, BP-93 06902 Sophia Antipolis, France. Tel: (+33) 4 92 38 77 18. Courriel : dabbous@inria.fr Dr. Thierry Turletti INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 route des lucioles, BP-93 06902 Sophia Antipolis, France. Tel : (+33) 4 92 38 78 79. Courriel : turletti@sophia.inria.fr Dr. Laurent Mathy Computing Department Infolab 21, South Drive Lancaster University LA1 4WA, Lancaster, UK. Tel : (+44) 15 24 51 03 85. Courriel : laurent@comp.lancs.ac.uk Prof. Guy Leduc Université de Liège, Institut d Electricité Montéfiore Bât. B28. B - 4000 Liège 1, Belgium. Tel : (+32) 4 366 26 98 Fax: + 32 4 3662989. Courriel : Guy.Leduc@ulg.ac.be Dr. Kavé Salamatian Universite Paris 6, LIP6-CNRS 8 rue du capitaine Scott 75015 PARIS, France. Tel : +(33) 1 44 27 71 03. Courriel : kave.salamatian@lip6.fr Prof. Olivier Bonaventure Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Department of Computing Science and Engineering Place Sainte Barbe, 2 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Tel: (+32) 10 47 90 12. Courriel : bonaventure@info.ucl.ac.be Prof. Farouk Kamoun Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l Informatique, ENSI, University of Manouba, Manouba, 2010, Tunisia. Tel : (216)-98-32-80-83. Courriel : frk.kamoun@planet.tn
4 Bibliography International Journals [1] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat, K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Securing Internet Coordinate Embedding Systems, in the ACM Computer Communication Review CCR online, January 2008. [2] M. A. Kaafar, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Supporting Large Scale Overlay multicast Applications, in The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 2007. Under submission [3] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat, K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Certifying Internet Coordinates, submitted to Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2008. [4] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat, K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, La Sécurité des Systèmes de Coordonnées Internet, submitted to the Revue des sciences et technologies de l information, TSI, 2008. International Conferences [5] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat, K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Securing Internet Coordinate Embedding Systems, In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007. [6] M. A. Kaafar, B. Gueye, F. Cantin, G. Leduc, L. Mathy. Towards a Two-tier Internet coordinate system to mitigate the impact of triangle inequality violations, In Proc. of IFIP Networking 2008. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, May 2008. [7] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Virtual Networks under Attack: Disrupting Internet Coordinate Systems, In Proc. of ACM CoNext 2006, Lisboa, December 2006. [8] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Real attacks on virtual networks: Vivaldi out of tune, In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Large Scale Attack Defense LSAD 2006, volume ACM SIGCOMM 2006, pages 139-146, PISA. ACM SIGCOMM, ACM Press, September 2006. [9] M. A. Kaafar, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous. A Locating-First Approach for Scalable Overlay multicast, In Proc. of IEEE IWQoS, New Haven, CT, USA, June 2006. Finalist for the best student paper. [10] M. A. Kaafar, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous. Scalable Overlay Scheme for Application-layer multicast, Extented abstract, In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM student. Workshop, Barcelone, April 2006. [11] M. A. Kaafar, C. Mrabet, T. Turletti. A Topolopgy-aware overlay multicast approach for mobile ad-hoc networks, In Proc. of AINTEC 2006, Bangkok, November, 2006.
5 [12] C. Mrabet, M.A. Kaafar, F. Kamoun, Wireless Alternative Best Effort service: A case study of ALM, In Proc. Of CoNext 2006 St. Workshop, Lisboa, December 2006. [13] M. A. Kaafar, L. Benazzouz, D. Males, F. Kamoun. A Kerberos-based Authentication Architecture for Wireless LANs, In Proc. of the third IFIP-TC6 international conference on networking (Networking 2004), Athens, May 2004. [14] M. A. Kaafar, L. Benazzouz, F. Kamoun. Test beds and experiments of a Kerberos-based authentication architecture for Wi-Fi networks, In Proc. of the IFIP-TC6 conference "Netcon 2004", palma de Mallorca, November 2004. [15] M. A. Kaafar, T. Turletti, and W. Dabbous. Locate, Cluster and Conquer: A Scalable Topology-aware Overlay Multicast, In Proc. of the WG3 workshop, Sophia Antipolis, September 2005. French Speaking Conferences [16] F. Cantin, M. A. Kaafar, B. Gueye, G. Leduc, L. Mathy. Explication et réduction de l impact des violations d inégalités triangulaires dans Vivaldi, In Colloque Francophone sur L Ingénierie des Protocles, CFIP 2008, Les arcs, March 2008.. [17] M. A. Kaafar, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous. Un réseau de recouvrement multipoint passant à l échelle, In Proc. of CFIP 2006, Tozeur, Tunisia, November 2006. [18] C. Mrabet, M.A. Kaafar, and F. Kamoun. Transmission applicative multipoint pour les réseaux ad-hoc, In Proc. of CFIP 2006, Tozeur, Tunisia, November 2006. Invited Papers [19] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat, K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Securing Internet Coordinate Systems, Invited paperto AINTEC 2007, Phuket, November 2007. Software [20] M. A.Kaafar, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Implémentation d une application à approche de localisation pour du multipoint applicatif, protégé par l APP (L Agence pour la Protection des Programmes), March 2006. Thesis [21] M. A. Kaafar, Securing Internet Coordinates Systems, PhD Thesis, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, INRIA, 2007. [22] M. A. Kaafar, Une nouvelle architecture d authentification Kerberos pour les réseaux Wi-Fi, Master thesis, Ecole Nationale des Sciences Informatique, Cristal Lab., 2004.
6 Technical and Research Reports [23] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat, K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Securing the distance Estimation phase of Internet Coordinate systems, INRIA Technical Report, http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00197605/en/ [24] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat, K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, W. Dabbous, Securing Internet Coordinate System: Embedding Phase, INRIA Technical Report, http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00151257/fr/ [25] M. A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, T. Tureltti, W. Dabbous, Virtual Networks under Attack: Disrupting Internet Coordinate Systems, INRIA Research Report, http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00085296/fr/ [26] M. A. Kaafar, T. Tureltti, W. Dabbous, Locate, Cluster and Conquer: A Scalable Topologyaware Overlay Multicast, INRIA Technical Report, http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00069866/fr/