Research Interest
My research interest is mainly focused on security, particularly distributed denial of service, cryptographic puzzles, firewalls, access control, authentication, and web security.
Publications
Monograph
Mehmud Abliz. "Denial of Service in Computer Networks: A Survey of Attacks and Defense Mechanisms." Lambert Academic Publishing. August 4, 2011. [Find it on Amazon]
Refereed Journal
Mehmud Abliz, Taieb Znati, and Adam J. Lee. “Mitigating Distributed Service Flooding Attacks with Guided Tour Puzzles.” To appear in the International Journal On Advances in Security, Vol. 5, No. 3/4, December 2012.
Refereed Conference Papers
Mehmud Abliz, Taieb Znati. “New Approach to Mitigating Distributed Service Flooding Attacks.” the 7th International Conference on Systems (ICONS '12), Saint Gilles, Reunion Island, February 2012 [PDF]
Mehmud Abliz, Taieb Znati. "A Guided Tour Puzzle for Denial of Service Prevention." the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2009, Honolulu, HI, Dec 2009. [PDF]
Shi-Kuo Chang, Mehmud Abliz, Yaw Gyamfi, Chang Liu. "A Visual Application Generator for the Chronobot." International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, San Francisco, CA, Sep 2007. [PDF]
Subrata Acharya, Mehmud Abliz, Bryan Mills, Taieb F. Znati. "OPTWALL: A Hierarchical Traffic-Aware Firewall." In Proceedings of the Network & Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, Feb 2007. [PDF]
Non-Refereed Publications
Mehmud Abliz. "Internet Denial of Service Attacks and Defense Mechanisms." University of Pittsburgh Department of Computer Science Technical Report. TR-11-178, March 2011. [PDF]
Mehmud Abliz. "Negotiating Trust in Identity Metasystem." University of Pittsburgh Department of Computer Science Technical Report. TR-10-173, April 2009. [PDF]
Posters
Mehmud Abliz. "Productive Puzzles: Stop DDoS, Do Useful Work." The 12th Annual Computer Science Day of Computer Science Department, Pittsburgh, PA, Mar 2012. [PDF]
Mehmud Abliz. "Preventing Denial of Service Attacks with Guided Tour Puzzles." The 10th Annual Computer Science Day of Computer Science Department, Pittsburgh, PA, Mar 2010. [PDF]
Mehmud Abliz. "OPTWALL: A Hierarchical Traffic-Aware Firewall." Runner-up & People's Choice Award in Poster Competition in 7th Annual Computer Science Day of Computer Science Department, Pittsburgh, PA, Feb 2007. [PPT]