Award Abstract #0426623
ITR - (NHS) - (int/dmc): Secure Remote Computing Services

NSF Org:	CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	September 9, 2004
Latest Amendment Date:	June 28, 2008
Award Number:	0426623
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Karl N. Levitt CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	September 15, 2004
Expires:	August 31, 2011 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$1410845
Investigator(s):	Jason Nieh nieh@cs.columbia.edu (Principal Investigator) Gail Kaiser (Co-Principal Investigator) Angelos Keromytis (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Columbia University 2960 Broadway NEW YORK, NY 10027 212/854-6851
NSF Program(s):	CYBER TRUST, ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES, SPECIAL PROJECTS - CISE
Field Application(s):	0000912 Computer Science
Program Reference Code(s):	HPCC,9218,7254
Program Element Code(s):	7371,7314,1714

ABSTRACT

Proposal Number CNS-0426623

TITLE: ITR: Secure Remote Computing Services

PI: Jason Nieh

ABSTRACT

Secure remote computing services (SRCS) will be developed as a critical information technology (IT) infrastructure. SRCS will move all application logic and data from insecure end-user devices, which attackers can easily corrupt, steal and destroy, to autonomic server farms in physically secure, remote data centers that can rapidly adapt to computing demands especially in times of crisis. Users can then access their computing state from anywhere, anytime, using simple, stateless Internet-enabled devices. SRCS builds on the hypothesis that a combination of lightweight process migration, remote display technology, overlay-based security and trust-management access control mechanisms, driven by an autonomic management utility, can result in a significant improvement in overall system reliability and security. The results of this effort will enable SRCS implementations to provide many benefits, including persistence and continuity of business logic, minimizing the cost of localized computing failures, robust protection against attacks, and transparent user mobility with global computing access. SRCS in time of crisis specifically addresses a major concern of national and homeland security. The substantially lowered total cost of ownership of applications running on SRCS is anticipated to dramatically reduce the gap between IT haves and have nots.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Albert Lai and Jason Nieh.  "On the Performance of Wide-Area Thin-Client Computing ,"  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS),  v.24,  2006,  p. 175.

Angelos Stavrou and Angelos Keromytis.  "Countering DDoS Attacks with Multi-Path Overlay Networks,"  nformation Assurance Technology Analysis Center (IATAC) Information Assurance Newsletter (IAnewsletter),  v.9,  2006,  p. 26.

Dan Phung, Giuseppe Valetto, Gail E. Kaiser, Tiecheng Liu and John R. Kender..  "Adaptive Synchronization of Semantically Compressed Instructional Videos for Collaborative Distance Learning.,"  International Journal of Distance Education Technologies.,  v.5,  2007,  p. 56.

Janak Parekh, Gail Kaiser, Philip Gross and Giuseppe Valetto..  "Retrofitting Autonomic Capabilities onto Legacy Systems.,"  Journal of Cluster Computing.,  v.9,  2006,  p. 141.

Sotiris Ioannidis, Steven M. Bellovin, John Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis, Kostas Anagnostakis, and Jonathan M. Smith.  "Virtual Private Services: Coordinated Policy Enforcement for Distributed Applications,"  International Journal of Network Security (IJNS),  v.4,  2007,  p. 69.

Yixin Diao, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Sujay Parekh, Rean Griffith, Gail Kaiser and Dan Phung..  "A Control Theory Foundation for Self-Managing Computing Systems.,"  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.,  v.23,  2005,  p. 2213.


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