Zinaida Benenson


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Office
Room 2AN08, Am Wolfsmantel 46, 91058 Erlangen
Phone
+49 9131-85 69908
E-Mail
zinaida.benenson ( at ) cs.fau.de

[Publications] [Professional activities] [Teaching][Projects] [CV]

I am a postdoc at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, at the Chair for IT Security Infrastructures.

My research interests are:

  • dependability and security issues in distributed systems, especially in wireless sensor networks and in pervasive computing,
  • and also human factors in computer security (usability, psychology).

 

Publications

[Book chapters] [Journals][Conferences and workshops] [Competition awards] [Theses] [Technical Reports]
Book chapters
Journals
  • Zinaida Benenson, Erik-Oliver Blaß, Felix C. Freiling: Attacker Models for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: it-Information Technology, 52 (6), Oldenbourg Verlag 2010.
  • Markus Bestehorn, Zinaida Benenson, Erik Buchmann, Marek Jawurek, Klemens Böhm, Felix C. Freiling: Query Dissemination in Sensor Networks - Predicting Reachability and Energy Consumption. In: Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks 9(1), Old City Publishing 2009.
Conferences and workshops
Competition awards
Theses
Technical Reports

Professional activities

  • Co-Chair: 2nd Workshop on Sensor Networks, collocated with 35th Annual GI Conference INFORMATIK 2005, Bonn, Germany

     

  • TPC Member
    • IEEE MASS 2011
    • ADHOC-NOW 2011
    • OPODIS 2010
    • SICHERHEIT 2010 (GI Tagung Sicherheit – Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit)
    • invited to TPC of WiSec 2010 (3rd ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security) -- unfortunately, the invitation landed in the spam filter and was discovered only when it was too late! ;-)
    • WRAS 2009 (Second International Workshop on Reliability, Availability, and Security)
    • IWASN 2007 (2nd International Workshop on Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks)
    • SSDSN 2007 (1st International Workshop on Security and Survivability in Distributed Sensor Networks)
    • REALWSN 2006 (2nd ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks)

     

  • Reviewer (selection)
    • Conferences: SSS (2009, 2008), EWSN (2009, 2008, 2006), ACM EuroSec 2009, ACM MobiSys 2006, IFIP SEC 2006, Euro-Par 2005, DISC 2004, IEEE Security&Privacy 2004
    • Journals: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Selected Areas in Communications, Elsevier Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier Computer Communications, MDPI Sensors, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Teaching

Courses
  • Winter term 2010: Introduction to Pervasive Computing lecture (2 contact hours) and exercise (2 contact hours), University of Mannheim

     

  • Spring term 2010: Dependable Distributed Systems, lecture (2 contact hours) and exercise (2 contact hours), University of Mannheim

     

  • Winter term 2009: Introduction to Pervasive Computing, co-teaching with Ioannis Krontiris, lecture (2 contact hours) and exercise (2 contact hours), University of Mannheim

     

  • Winter term 2007: Organization and supervision of the conference seminar Verification in Sensor Networks together with the Logic and Formal Methods Group (Prof. Peter H. Schmitt), Karlsruhe University (TH). This seminar took the form of a "real" conference, including peer reviewing of the submissions by the TPC and students.

     

  • 2003 - present: Supervision of student research projects, seminars, diploma and master theses at RWTH Aachen, Uppsala University and University of Mannheim
Supervised diploma theses

Projects

Zuverlässige Informationsbereitstellung in energiebewussten ubiquitären Systemen (ZeuS) -- Reliable information provision in energy-aware ubiquitous systems
(Funded by the BW-FIT program of the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, 2006 - 2009) The aim of this project was development of communication protocols with gracefully degrading, probabilistic security and reliability for wireless sensor networks. The developed protocols should enable the system users to trade-off security and reliability of the information against energy consumption of the protocols.

Security in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems
(Funded by VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, project leader Dr. Christian Rohner, 2004-2006) The purpose of the project was developing new security solutions for mobile peer-to-peer networks. These are infrastructure-less networks of small personal devices that collaborate on behalf of a particular application.

Short CV

  • 8/2011 - present: Postdoc at Chair for IT Security Infrastructures at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • 1/2009 - 7/2011: Postdoc at Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems (Prof. Felix C. Freiling), University of Mannheim

     

  • 12/2008: PhD in Computer Science
    Thesis: Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks Advisors: Prof. Felix C. Freiling, University of Mannheim and Prof. Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University

     

  • 8/2006 - 12/2008: Research Assistant at Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems (Prof. Felix C. Freiling, nee Gärtner) at University of Mannheim, Germany

     

  • 2/2006 - 7/2006: Project Assistant at Communications Research Group (Prof. Per Gunningberg), Uppsala University, Sweden

     

  • 12/2002 - 12/2005 PhD Student at DFG graduate school Software for Mobile Communication Systems at RWTH Aachen, advisors: Prof. Otto Spaniol and Prof. Felix C. Freiling, nee Gärtner

     

  • 10/1998 - 11/2002: Student worker in the Ada-Lovelace-Project. Developed and taught a series of workshops in theoretical computer science for secondary school "Computer science without computer"

     

  • 10/1997 - 11/2002: Studies of Computer Science with minor in Computational Linguistics at University of Trier. Diploma thesis: Verifiable Distributed Consensus, Advisor: Dr. Birgit Pfitzmann, IBM Zürich

     

  • 9/1991 - 6/1996: Studies of mathematics to be a teacher at Moscow Pedagogical Lenin University

     

  • 9/1981 - 6/1991: Secondary school 1567 in Moscow