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= ExptsSecurity Project Status Report =

'''Period: GEC16 (March 19-21) 2013''' [[BR]]

== I. Major accomplishments ==

=== A. Milestones achieved ===

No milestone was set for this time period. All the milestones were achieved by GEC15 report, with deliverables made, see the Milestone ExptsSec:S4.d.  [[BR]]


=== B. Deliverables made ===

== II. Description of work performed during last quarter ==

=== A. Activities and findings ===
Major activities are education related and publication related.  We used ProtoGENI in a graduate course of distributed systems during 2013 spring semester. [[BR]]

There were research activities by Dr Hong on the control plane of software defined networks.   

A paper was accepted by IEEE System Journal. In the paper we introduced our experimental study on the vulnerability of ProtoGENI and considerations on mitigating strategies.  [[BR]]

=== B. Project participants ===

Xiaoyan Hong (PI) [[BR]] Fei Hu (Co-PI) [[BR]] Yang Xiao
(Co-PI) [[BR]]  

=== C. Publications (individual and organizational) ===

Dawei Li, Xiaoyan Hong, Darwin Witt, “ProtoGENI, a Prototype GENI under Security Vulnerabilities: An Experiment-Based Security Study”, IEEE Systems Journal, special issue on Security and Privacy of Complex Systems, accepted for publication, 2012. [[BR]]


=== D. Outreach activities ===


=== E. Collaborations ===


=== F. Other Contributions ===