Security and Privacy Concerns vs. Energy Efficient Computing and Networking

Hermann De Meer (Professor, Chair of Computer Networks and Computer Communications at University of Passau)

Abstract

The main focus of energy-efficiency related research has been on energy-awareness across the whole protocol stack, reaching from energy-aware applications all the way down to hardware and chip technology. Adaptation, monitoring or virtualization techniques have gained increasing attention in addition to new architectural concepts for encompassing energy awareness. What has gained less attention, however, are security and privacy issues that provide new challenges. This talk addresses the interrelation between energy efficiency in computing and networking and security and privacy threats. Some concluded research challenges and envisioned counter measures will also be outlined.

Short Bio

Hermann de Meer received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. As a postdoc fellow he was associated with the University of Texas at Austin, TX, and with Duke University, NC, USA. He received his habilitation from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and spent an extended period of time as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, NYC, USA. After his readership at UCL, UK, he moved to the University of Passau, Germany, as a full professor in Computer Science in 2003. His main interests of research within the area of networking and computer communications, in general, have been related to the topics of energy efficiency, self-organization, security and privacy, virtualization, and performance modeling. He was recently appointed TPC co-chair of and was hosting the 1st Int'l Conf. on Energy Efficient Computing and Networking, e-Energy 2010, Passau, April 2010.