Y. Thomas Hou, Assoc. Prof. Co-Director on Wireless Networks	Wenjing Lou, Assoc. Prof. Co-Director on Cyber Security

History

The Complex Networks and Security Research (CNSR) Lab at Virginia Tech was founded in 2011 by Profs. Tom Hou and Wenjing Lou. It was merged from the former Complex Network Systems Lab in the ECE department and the former Cyber Security Lab in the CS department.

Mission

The mission of the new CNSR@VT lab is to conduct basic and applied research in a broad range of topics in networking, wireless, and cyber security. We explore novel concepts and ideas related to protocols and systems of the future pervasive cyber infrastructure, and design scalable architecture and trustworthy protocols for the next generation networks.

Current Research Interests

There are two main research thrusts at CNSR@VT:

Wireless Networks Research

• Cross-layer Optimization: multi-hop cognitive radio ad hoc networks, multi-hop MIMO ad hoc networks
• Algorithm Design and Optimization: for multi-hop cooperative communications, for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, opportunistic routing, network coding
• Video Communications over Dynamic Ad Hoc Networks

Cyber Security Research

• Wireless Security: security and privacy in wireless networks and mobile computing, cognitive radio networks security, cross-layer methods for security enhancement, location privacy
• Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing: outsourced data privacy, search over encrypted data, computation outsourcing privacy
• Security and Privacy in Cyber-physical Systems: e-healthcare systems and smart grid