Abstract: Many types of attacks are possible on network routers for which no organized approach on how to handle them have been developed so far.

We will give some examples of attacks and possible classification on types of attacks. In this exploratory talk, we'll then consider how to possibly build a trusted environment and functionalities needed to accomplish such an environment.

Biography: Deep Medhi is Professor (and past Division Head) of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Division, School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). He received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in Mathematics from Cotton College, Gauhati University, India, the M.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, India, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1987 respectively. Prior to joining UMKC in 1989, he was a member of the technical staff in the traffic network routing and design department at the AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey from 1987 to 1989. He was an invited visiting professor in the Institute of Telecommunications at the Technical University of Denmark during the summer of 1999, and Research Visitor at the Department of Communication Systems, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, Sweden during the summer of 2003. He's currently on the roster of Fulbright Senior Specialists. He has published over fifty five peer-reviewed papers. His research interests are in survivable network design and architecture, dynamic quality-of-service routing, next generation network architecture, IP network availability, wireless networking, network management, and medical informatics. He is a senior technical editor of the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM). He has served on the technical program committees of several IEEE conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE NOMS. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2003 IEEE Workshop on IP Operations & Management (IPOM'2003). He was a guest editor of the June 1997 special issue on "Fault Management in Communication Networks" of JNSM. Over the years, his research has been funded by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Sprint Corporation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

He is the recipient of Individual Performance Award at AT&T Bell Laboratories (1989), UMKC Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (1996), UMKC Faculty Performance Shares Award (2001), and was named to the Kansas City Star's Tech 50 list (2002).

With Michal Pioro, he is the co-author of the forthcoming textbook, "Routing, Flow and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks", published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (an imprint of Elsevier Science). It's scheduled for publication around April/May 2004.