David Slater

Network Security Lab
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington

E-mail: dmslater [ at ] gmail [.] com

Mailing address:

University of Washington, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Paul Allen Center - Room AE100R, Campus Box 352500
Seattle, WA 98195-2500, USA

Phone: (206)616-6130

Research

My current research interests are in the areas of Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Network Security, Modeling Vulnerabilities in Wireless Networks and Developing Countermeasures, Network Performance Analysis and Optimization, and Game Theoretic Adversarial Modeling.

Journal Publications

David Slater, Radha Poovendran, Patrick Tague, and Brian J. Matt, Tradeoffs Between Jamming Resilience and Communication Efficiency in Key Establishment, to appear in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. (Invited Paper)
Patrick Tague, David Slater, Jason Rogers, and Radha Poovendran, Evaluating the Vulnerability of Network Traffic Using Joint Security and Routing Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 111-123, April-June 2009.

Journal Papers under Review

Patrick Tague, David Slater, Guevara Noubir, and Radha Poovendran, Quantifying the Impact of Efficient Cross-Layer Jamming Attacks via Network Traffic Flows, submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Conference Publications

David Slater, Patrick Tague, Mingyan Li, and Radha Poovendran, A Game-Theoretic Framework for Jamming Attacks and Mitigation in Commercial Aircraft Wireless Networks, AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, April 2009.
David Slater, Patrick Tague, Radha Poovendran, and Brian J. Matt, A Coding-Theoretic Approach for Efficient Message Verification Over Insecure Channels, Second ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), March 2009.
Patrick Tague, Sidharth Nabar, James A. Ritcey, David Slater, and Radha Poovendran, Throughput Optimization for Multipath Unicast Routing Under Probabilistic Jamming, PIMRC'08, September 2008.
Patrick Tague, David Slater, Guevara Noubir, and Radha Poovendran, Linear Programming Models for Jamming Attacks on Network Traffic Flows, WiOpt'08, April 2008.
Patrick Tague, David Slater, Jason Rogers, and Radha Poovendran, Vulnerability of Network Traffic under Node Capture Attacks using Circuit Theoretic Analysis, INFOCOM'08, April 2008.

Department Publications

David Slater and Patrick Tague, Using Electric Circuits to Evaluate Vulnerability in Wireless Network Routing, in Electrical Engineering Kaleidoscope (EEK), University of Washington, 2008.
David Slater, Patrick Tague, and Phillip Lee, Vulnerability of Secure Wireless Networks: A Toolkit for Network Visualization, in Electrical Engineering Kaleidoscope (EEK), University of Washington, 2007.