GlobalSIP 2017:

Symposium on Control & Information Theoretic Approaches to Privacy and Security

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The ubiquity of technologies such as wireless communications, biometric identification systems, on-line data repositories, and smart electricity grids, has created new challenges in information security and privacy. Traditional approaches based on cryptography are far from adequate in such complex systems and fundamentally new techniques must be developed. Control and Information theory provide fundamental limits that can guide the development of methods for addressing these challenges. Historically, both Systems and Control and the Information Theory communities have developed independent approaches to deal with the issue of security and privacy. But various emerging applications require tools from both theories to be used in tandem. There has been relatively little effort in bringing the two fields together and have a cohesive discussion on modelling and solution approaches to security and privacy. The symposium aims to serve as such a venue that discusses the perspectives developed by both communities in a timely and productive manner.

Distinguished Symposium Talk

Demosthenis Teneketzis

University of Michigan

Control and Game Theoretic Approaches to Cyber Security

Abstract
We discuss the challenges present in cyber security problems. We examine control and game theoretic approaches to address these challenges. We present two control theoretic approaches based on dependency graphs and non- probabilistic finite state machines. These models lead to Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) and Minmax control problems, respectively. We consider stochastic dynamic games with asymmetric information, present a common information approach to these games and discuss its features.

Biography
Demos Teneketzis received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. His research interests are in stochastic control, decentralized systems, queueing and communication networks, stochastic scheduling and resource allocation problems, mathematical economics, and discrete-event systems.

Schedule

Submissions are welcome on topics including:

• Modeling systems under cyber and physical attacks
• Intrusion detection and attack identification
• Secure state estimation and communication
• Game theoretic, supervisory, and robust control approaches to security and privacy
• Secrecy and secret key capacity of wireless channel
• Secure communication under adversarial attack
• Practical code design for physical layer security
• Secure cross-layer design techniques
• Secure communication with an uncertain physical layer
• Jamming-assisted secure wireless transmission
• Security and Privacy issues in applications (e.g., Smart Grids, UAVs, etc.)

Notice: The IEEE Signal Processing Society enforces a “no-show” policy. Any accepted paper included in the final program is expected to have at least one author or qualified proxy attend and present the paper at the conference. Authors of the accepted papers included in the final program who do not attend the conference will be subscribed to a “No-Show List”, compiled by the Society. The “no-show” papers will not be published by IEEE on IEEEXplore or other public access forums, but these papers will be distributed as part of the on-site electronic proceedings and the copyright of these papers will belong to the IEEE.

Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

Aditya Mahajan, McGill University
Ashish Khisti, University of Toronto
Rafael F. Schaefer, Technische Universität Berlin

Technical Co-Chairs

Holger Boche, Technische Universität München
Cedric Langbort, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Technical Program Committee

• Emrah Akyol, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
• Mattheiu Bloch, Georgia Tech
• Giuseppe Caire, Technische Universität Berlin
• Benoit Champagne, McGill University
• Paul Cuff, Princeton University
• Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London
• Abhishek Gupta, Ohio State University
• Eduard Jorswieck, Technische Universität Dresden
• Peter Kairouz, Stanford University
• Lifeng Lai, University of California, Davis
• Si-Hyeon Lee, POSTECH
• Yingbin Liang, Syracuse University
• Mael Le Treust, ETIS/CNRS, ENSEA
• Sergey Loyka, University of Ottawa
• Jerome Ny, École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Tobias Oechtering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• George Pappas, University of Pennsylvania
• Yao-Win (Peter) Hong, National Tsing Hua University
• Walid Saad, Virginia Tech
• Adam Smith, Pennsylvania State University
• Shreyas Sundaram, Purdue University
• Takashi Tanaka, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Stefano Tomasin, University of Padova
• Ligong Wang, ETIS, ENSEA
• Aylin Yener, Pennsylvania State University
• Xiangyun Zhou, Australian National University
• Mario Goldenbaum, Princeton University
• Pin-Hsun Lin, Technische Universität Dresden
• Anand Sarwate, Rutgers University