Mike Coglianese

Research

I have worked on two research projects while attending Brown University.

NTRU Cryptosystems

My senior honors thesis involved creating and analyzing a new NTRU-based cryptosystem. In collaboration with Bok-Min Goi, we are continuing this research and have presented the new cryptosystem at Indocrypt 2005. The paper has been published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science; the paper and our Indocrypt 2005 slides are available below.

MaTRU - A New NTRU-Based Cryptosystem

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new variant of the NTRU public key cryptosystem - the MaTRU cryptosystem. MaTRU works under the same general principles as the NTRU cryptosystem, except that it operates in a different ring with a different linear transformation for encryption and decryption. In particular, it operates in the ring of k by k matrices of polynomials in R = Z[X]/(Xn-1), whereas NTRU operates in the ring Z[X]/(XN-1). Note that an instance of MaTRU has the same number of bits per message as an instance of NTRU when nk2 = N. The improved efficiency of the linear transformation in MaTRU leads to respectable speed improvements by a factor of O(k) over NTRU at the cost of a somewhat larger public key.

Formats: TEX | DVI | Postscript | PDF

Slides: Indocrypt 2005

Formats: PowerPoint

Portions © Springer-Verlag, 2005.

Mobile Computing

Master's Project: Mobile Aleph - A System for Distributed Mobile Applications

Abstract: My paper introduces Mobile Aleph, a distributed shared object system that addresses the needs of mobile group-oriented applications. These applications need to work when the mobile client is connected to an application server, when off-line, or when combined with other clients in an ad hoc network. In addition, a distributed system for mobile applications must have a high degree of fault tolerance and must deal with the limitations of resource-poor clients. The system employs an optimistic concurrency model that combines the approaches of client/server and peer-to-peer architectures. The paper outlines the Mobile Aleph approach, the algorithms used for maintenance of global data, and the experimental results of simulations of the system.

Formats: TEX | DVI | Postscript | PDF

Survey Paper: Optimistic Data Replication for Mobile Applications

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Links to Related Sites

Research

The Aleph Toolkit
Xerox PARC's Bayou Project
File Mobility Group at UCLA (Rumor and Roam)
MIT's Rover Toolkit
CMU's Coda Project
An index of mobile computing resources

Hardware/Software

The NEC MobilePro 800
Proxim, maker of wireless network cards for Windows CE
Sun's PersonalJava Runtime Environment for Windows CE
Resources for this project were provided by Microsoft Corporation.