Bio-data of V Anil Kumar
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V. Anil Kumar
36 Years, 29-02-1972
Scientist
C-MMACS
NAL Belur Campus
Bangalore, 560037, India.
+91 80 25051910 (Off.), +91 80 25265198 (Res.)
anil@cmmacs.ernet.in
English, Malayalam, German
Academic background
Course/Year
University
M. Sc. (Electronics)
1994
Cochin University of Electronics
Science & Technology AI
Robotics
University of
Physics
Calicut
Mathematics
Chemistry
University of
Physics
Calicut
Mathematics
Chemistry
Board of public
General
Examination, Kerala
Subjects
B. Sc. (Physics)
1992
Pre-degree
1989
SSC(10th)
1987
Subjects
Division
% of Marks
First Class
With
Distinction
First Class
80.04
First Class
62.55
First Class
63.08
81.20
Awards/Honours
DAAD Fellowship awarded by German Academic Exchange Service, Germany
Employment Details
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CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and
Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), NAL Belur
Campus, Bangalore – 37, India
Scientist
April 2004 – present
(a) Research in security issues of computer networks
(b) Chief Investigator of a sponsored research project
on analysis, detection and mitigation of a new
class of DoS attacks
(c) System and Network administration of high
performance computing and networking resources
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Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication
Systems (FOKUS), Berlin, Germany
DAAD Fellow (on deputation from Govt of India)
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October 2002 – March 2004
(a) Security analysis of communication protocol
(b) Studies on Network Intrusion Detection System
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CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and
Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), NAL Belur
Campus, Bangalore – 37, India
Scientist
May 1996 – May 2002
(a) System and Network administration of high
performance computing and networking resources
(b) Implementation and deployment of system
network and security solutions
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Research interests
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Network Security and Intrusion Detection Systems in inter-networked environment
Denial-of-Service attack analysis, detection and mitigation
Internet traffic engineering: measurement and performance analysis
Cryptography
Highlights of Professional Experience and Core Skills
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Leading a medium-sized team engaged in design and implementation of network
security solutions, Network administration, UNIX and Linux system administration,
DoS attack analysis and detection.
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Network management and day-to-day administration of heterogeneous high-speed
campus-wide computer network. Installation and configuration of Internet routers,
firewall (IPtable), proxy, Intrusion detection system (snort and N@G), virus cum spam
control system (IMSS).
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Security analysis of Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), vulnerability and attack identification,
attack simulation and impact quantification using network simulator (ns2).
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Administrative level experience in a number of operating systems like, Linux, SGI
IRIX, SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, MS Windows etc. Setting up of
network services like DNS, NIS, NFS, E-mail, WWW, ftp etc.
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Identified, for the first time, a new class of flooding Denial-of-Service attacks, and
proposed detection and mitigation solutions.
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Attack real implementation in Linux kernel and its impact quantification in widely used
commercial and public domain Operating Systems like Linux, SUN SOLARIS, SGI
IRIX, HP-UX, MS Windows, FreeBSD etc.
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Design, implementation and performance evaluation of IDS and IPS modules for attack
detection and mitigation, and their performance evaluation.
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Setting up of network test-bed for Internet emulation by configuring router buffer
capacity, router queue management scheme, link speed, packet drop and reordering rate
etc., using tools like Dummynet, NISTnet, IPtable, Linux traffic controller (tc) etc.
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Linux kernel (2.4 and 2.6) modification, recompilation and debugging
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Network traffic (packet) capturing and analysis for identification of abnormal network
incidents and attacks.
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Chief-Investigator of a research project on “Analysis and Detection of a New Class of
Denial-of-Service Attacks on the Internet”, sponsored by Ministry of Information
Technology, Government of India.
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Published 13 research papers in journals and international conference proceedings.
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Delivered a number of technical presentations in international conferences (including
vulnerability revelation conference). The most recent talks include presentation at
CanSecWest 2007, Canada, presentation at University of British Colombia, Vancouver,
Canada, and an invited talk at SANOG-9, Colombo.
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In-depth understanding of TCP and IP protocol suite, IP technology, QoS, VoIP, router
level per packet based Access Control List (ACL), VLAN, switched Ethernet, Fast
Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet etc.
Hands on experience on computer & communication systems
Hardware platforms
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24 CPU SGI Altix, 32 CPU SGI Origin3400, 4 CPU
SGI Origin200 IBM H70 Server, Convex C3820,
SGI Octane, HP c8000, Indy, SUN Blade 2500, Intel
based PCs and servers, CISCO and Dlink
routers and switches
Operating Systems
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Linux, FreeBSD, SGI IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, IBM
AIX, SUN SOLARIS 2.5, 2.6, 7,9
MS Windows NT, 2000 and XP
Communication Protocol
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TCP/IP
Network Technology
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Ethernet, Fast-Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI
Network Tools
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Dummynet Emulator, Network Simulator, Nistnet
Network Emulator, NAM, tcpdump and tcptrace,
traffic controller (tc), Iptables, snort
Programming Languages
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C, Linux Kernel debugging, UNIX Shell and Tcl
Papers published in Journals and Conference Proceedings
1) G K Patra, V Anil Kumar, R P Thangavelu, Secure Chaotic Synchronizatin using
Negative Feedback of Super-positioned Signals, LNCS, vol. 4812, pp. 193-207,
Springer-Verlag, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Information System
Securities (ICISS-2007), New Delhi, 16-20, December 2007.
2) S. Sivapoornam, V Anil Kumar, G K Patra, N Ch S N Iyengar, Analysis and
Detection of Reflector based Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, Proceedings of
International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICSCIS-07),
Jabalpur, December 27-29, 2007.
3) G K Patra, V Anil Kumar, R P Thangavelu, A New Concept of Key Agreement
using Chaos-synchronization based Parameter Estimation, LNCS, vol. 4812, pp. 263266, Springer-Verlag, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Information
System Securities (ICISS-2007), New Delhi, 16-20, December 2007.
4) G K Patra, V Anil Kumar, R P Thangavelu, Analysis of Synchronization based
Parameter Estimation Attack on Switched Bi-directional Chaotic Key Stream
Generator, in the proceedings of International Conference on Information Processing,
Bangalore, pp. 298-307, August 2007.
5) V Anil Kumar, G K Patra, R P Thangavelu, A Sahu, P S Jayalekshmy, Transport
Layer Protocol Exploitation Attempts for DoS/DDoS Attacks: Journal of Computer
Science, Karpagam publications, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp 272-280, Jan-Feb 2007.
6) V Anil Kumar and Dorgham Sisalem, TCP based Denial-of-Service Attacks to Edge
Network: Analysis and Detection, LNCS, Vol. 3356, pp 214-223, Springer-Verlag.
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7) V Anil Kumar and Dorgahm Sisalem, Analysis and Detection of Denial-of-Service
Scenario generated by TCP Receivers to Edge-network, in proceedings of 12th
International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication, ADCOM2004.
8) V Anil Kumar, Sophistication in distributed denial-of-service attacks on the Internet,
Current Science, 2004, Vol. 87, No.7, pp 885-888.
9) G K Patra, T R Ramamohanan, V Anil Kumar, R P Thangavelu, Improvement in
Security Level of First Generation Chaotic Communication System by Mutual
Synchronization, IEEE press as the proceedings of the14th International Conference
on Advanced Computing and Communication, ADCOM-2006.
10) V Anil Kumar, G K Patra, R P Thangavelu and P S Jayalekshmi, An Overview of
TCP Related Denial-of-Service Attacks and Associated Challenges, National
workshop on towards securing end-systems in the networked world challenges and
possible solutions, June 2006, Hyderabad, India.
11) G K Patra, Tahir Ali, V Anil Kumar, R P Thangavelu “Multiparty Secure Key
Exchange Algorithm Using Neural Cryptography”, In Proceedings of National
Workshop on Cryptography, September 2004.
12) V Anil Kumar, R.P. Thangavelu and G.K. Patra, “Secure and Active Hop-count
Mapping for early Detection of IP Spoofed Denial-of-Service Attacks”, in
Proceedings of National Conference on Hardware and Software Solutions for Secure
Networks, Hyderabad, 23-24 January, 2004.
13) Malay Mukul, Debjani Roy, Shibasis Satpathy, and V Anil Kumar, “Bootstrapped
spatial statistics: a more robust approach to the analysis of finite strain data”, Journal
of Structural Geology 26 (2004) 595-600.
Major Research Projects
Title of the Project: Analysis and Detection of a New Class of Denial-of-Service
Attacks on the Internet
Role
: Chief Investigator
Duration
: 2 years
Budget
: Rs 2850000 (~ 65000 US$)
Team Size
:5
Invited talks/Presentations/Seminars delivered
1) Low-rate Denial-of-Service Attacks, CanSecWest-2007, the applied security
conference, 18-20 April 2007 Vancouver, Canada (Invited Talk)
2) On Detecting ACK Spoofing Attacks, Department of Electrical and computer
Engineering, University of British Colombia, 20, April 2007, Vancouver, Canada
3) TCP Related DoS Attacks and Associated Challenges, National Conference on Cyber
Security, 8-10 March, 2007, Bangalore, India (Invited Talk)
4) Sophistication in Denial-of-Service Attacks: Conventional Brute Force vs. Low-rate
Tactical Flooding, 9th South Asian Network Operational Group Conference,
(SANOG-9), 23-24 January 2007, Colombo, Sri Lanka
5) An Overview of TCP Related Denial-of-Service Attacks and Associated Challenges,
National workshop on towards securing end-systems in the networked world
challenges and possible solutions, June 2006, Hyderabad, India (Invited Talk)
6) TCP based Denial-of-Service Attacks to Edge Network: Analysis and Detection, 7th
International Conference on Information Technology, CIT-2004, Hyderabad, India
7) Analysis and Detection of Denial-of-Service Scenario generated by TCP Receivers to
Edge-network, 12th International conference on Advanced Computing and
Communication, ADCOM-2004, Ahmedabad, India
8) V Anil Kumar, Sonia Oberoi, Anna Peppler and Roswitha Paul-Walz, “Living and
Learning in a Foreign Culture”, Asia pacific Week, Berlin Germany, Sep. 24, 2003
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9) “Network Intrusion Detection Systems, its need and capabilities in a packet switched
environment”, 16th May 2001 at C-MMACS
10) “An introduction to information security in networked society”, Brainstorming
session on “Quantum information and cryptography” arranged by C-MMACS
11) “Simple Network Management Protocol based Bandwidth Measurement system for
Internet access link” at C-MMACS
International/National conferences attended
1) CanSecWest 2007, the applied security conference, 18-20 April 2007, Vancouver,
Canada
2) South Asian Network Operation Group Conference (SANOG-9), 23-24 January 2007,
Colombo, Sri Lanka
3) National Conference on Cyber Security, 8-10 March, 2007, Bangalore, India
4) 9th South Asian Network Operation Group Conference (SANOG-9), Colombo, Sri
Lanka, 23-24 January 2007
5) 7th International Conference on Information Technology, CIT 2004, Hyderabad,
India, December 2004
6) 12th International conference on “Advanced Computing and Communication”
(ADCOM-2004), Ahmedabad, India, December 2004
7) Asia pacific Week, Berlin Germany, September 24-29, 2003
8) Workshop on “Self-Organizing Policy Handling for future Internet service
Environment”, jointly organized by NTT-Data, Japan and Fraunhofer FOKUS,
Germany, Berlin, Germany, June 18, 2003.
9) 8th International conference on “Advanced Computing and Communication”
(ADCOM-2000), Cochin, India, December 2000
Student Theses Supervised
1) Experimental Study on the Impact of Bursty Traffic on Edge-routers, M.Tech thesis
submitted to National Institute of Technology, Karnataka
2) A Simulation Study on the Effect of Bursty Traffic on the Internet Routers, M.Tech
thesis submitted to Vellore Institute of Technology, Deemed University, Tamilnadu
3) Simulation Study on Throughput Variation of TCP Flows under Different Queue
Management scheme, ME thesis submitted to Noorul Islam College of Engineering,
Anna University
4) Behaviour Analysis of TCP Servers in Context of Malicious Acknowledgement
Spoofing, ME thesis submitted to Vellore Institute of Technology, Deemed
University, Tamilnadu
5) A Simulation Study on TCP connection control for Bandwidth Management, ME
thesis submitted to Visveswaraiyya Technological University, Karnataka.
6) Unsolicited Packet Analyzer, MCA thesis submitted to DOEACC Centre, Calicut
Univeristy, Kerala
7) SoftNetTap: A Packet Capturing Tool for Network Monitoring, MCA thesis
submitted to DOEACC Centre, Calicut Univeristy, Kerala
8) A Simulation Study of the Impact of Congestion related Packet Loss on Modern
TCPs, MCA thesis submitted to Tezpur University, Assam
9) Analysis of Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, BE thesis submitted to
Visveswaraih, Technological University, Karnataka
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10) Design and implementation of Bandwidth control techniques for on-line control of
bandwidth utilisation of Internet access link, MCA thesis submitted to Nagpur
University.
11) Estimation and Analysis of Bandwidth Utilisation of Internet access link, MCA thesis
submitted to Perrier University, Tamilnadu
12) Implementation of network manager using Simple Network Management Protocol,
BE thesis submitted to Birla Institute of Technology (BITS), Pilani.
13) GUI for Bandwidth Utilization of Internet Access Link, MCA thesis submitted to
Kuvempu University
14) Transport Layer Packet Transfer Visualization System, BE thesis submitted to Dr.
Ambedkar Institute of Technology, VTU
15) Neural Network based Rainfall Forecasting System from multi-modal inputs, BE
thesis submitted to Bosco Institute of Technology
Professional certifications
1) Brainbench certification on Networking Concepts
2) Brainbench certification on TCP/IP Administration
3) Brainbench certification on Unix Administration
(V Anil Kumar)
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