Peng Liu, assistant professor of information sciences and technology, will demonstrate a new software Oct. 25 designed to help academic, government and industry researchers evaluate their Internet security mechanisms and products.
Developed in Microsoft.NET, EMIST GUI v.1.0 automates various aspects of the experiment design process and allows researchers to design interactive experiments.
"The existing testing infrastructure is difficult to control and use and is not user friendly," Liu said. "With EMIST GUI, researchers' experiments will be clearer and easier."
The software, which has more than 20,000 lines of code, was developed by Liu; Lunquan Li, a doctoral student in IST; Jiwu Jing, a visiting professor; and George Kesidis, an associate professor of electrical engineering. Liu's research group plans to release the first version of the software at the demo.
EMIST GUI is part of a Department of Homeland Security and National Science Foundation initiative to develop large-scale, nationwide testing infrastructures for Internet security, technology research, development and commercialization.
The demo will take place at a special workshop for this initiative in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Representatives from several countries such as Japan and Canada will also attend this event.
