Projects
New Foundations for Anonymous Communications KU Leuven
Efficient Traffic Analysis Defenses for Low-Latency Anonymous Communications. KU Leuven
Website fingerprinting is a family of traffic analysis techniques that allows a local eavesdropper to infer which web pages a user visits over an encrypted channel. These techniques use machine learning classifiers to exploit features in the metadata of network traffic, such as the lengths and timing of network packets. Website fingerprinting has been shown to undermine the privacy provided by privacy-enhancing technologies, such as HTTPS, ...
Electric Vehicles Point Location Optimisation via Vehicular Communications Ghent University
Electric vehicles (EVs) will play a big role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. As such, it is important to develop technologies addressing charging management in a holistic view of charging supply/delivery management for EVs and communication by EVs to the smart grid infrastructure system. The MSCA-funded EVOLVE project will design, develop and test several technologies considering the holistic view of EV ...
Quantum Protocol Implementation with Si/SiGe Spin Qubit KU Leuven
Research into upscaling quantum computers based on Si/SiGe Spin Qubits. More specifically, research into coupling and readout of multiple qubits. For this new designs will be needed, and they will be tested both in room temperature and milli-kelvin. The goal is to aid the creation of usable quantum computers, who are able to do computations using large amounts of qubits.
Design and implementation of secure distance bounding protocols KU Leuven
Distance Bounding protocols enable a verifier to establish an upper-bound on the distance to an untrusted prover. Distance bounding protocols offer an effective countermeasure against relay attacks in wireless authentication protocols. One of the most difficult research challenges is how to realize a distance bounding protocol in practice. This requires carefully combining cryptographic protocols with physical layer techniques. The goal of ...
Design Strategy for a Multiprotocol and Multiband Communication System. Ghent University
Design and realization of multiprotocol and multiband communication system. The central node and the sensors are flexible, battery-powered, lightweight and usable in challenging environments (high temperature and humidity). The central node wirelessly communicates with the different sensors using a long distance communication protocol and with the smartphone via another
communication protocol, enabling an easy sensor data transfer over ...
Design and analysis of anonymous routing protocols KU Leuven
The main focus of this Ph.D. project is on the application of machine learning methods to the security and privacy analysis of anonymous communications networks, considering networks both based on onion routing and on mixnet techniques. In particular, the research aims to evaluate the inferences that can be made about users’ communications patterns from the metadata leaked by such networks. Based on the obtained evaluation results, this ...