Grid Enabled Internet Instruments

Project: Grid Enabled Internet Instruments (GEII)

Grid Enabled Internet Instruments (GEII) looks at the synergy between Grid computing and network monitoring and scanning instruments such as network telescopes for Internet Background Radiation (IBR) and honeypot clients for malicious web server detection and exploit identification. Deploying these instruments in a worldwide grid creates a global instrument that collaboratively can be used to map exploits and create quality measures for the Internet.

The GEII Whitepaper, August 2007.

Research Projects/Students within GEII

• PhD: Christian Seifert, Using Honeypot clients for Malicious Web Server Detection, Start January 2006, Satus: ongoing (Supervisors: Ian Welch and Peter Komisarczuk) - publications. Client honeypot software is released through the NZ Honeynet project.
• MSc: Dean Pemberton, Internet Background Radiation, submitted January 2007. (Supervisors: Peter Komisarczuk and Ian Welch) thesis
• MSc: David Stirling, Workflows in Client Honeypot Systems, Start:March 2007, Status: ongoing, (Supervisors: Peter Komisarczuk and Ian Welch)
• MSc: Alex Koudrin, Network Relaibility and Resiliency in Next Generation Networks, Submitted June 2006, (Supervisor: Peter Komisarczuk) thesis

Related work

• Honours: Neil Bertram, New Zealands Internet Landscape: An analysis of peering, content and scalability, submitted October 2006 (Supervisor: Peter Komisarczuk)
• Grid/Utility computing and NEVO (Network Enabled Virtual Organisations) - collaboration between Peter Komisarczuk, Kris Bubendorfer and Ian Welch of the Distributed Systems Research Group
• PhD: Kyle Chard, Grid/Utility Computing, (Supervisors: Kris Bubendorfer and Peter Komisarczuk, 2006-ongoing)
• Honours: Kyle Chard, Efficient Dynamic Resource Description, submitted October 2004. (Supervisors: Peter Komisarczuk and Kris Bubendorfer)

The GEII is a project of the Distributed Systems Research Group (DSRG) at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW)

For further information contact Peter Komisarczuk