Date/heure
Date(s) - 26/01/2023
10 h 00 - 12 h 00
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Infinite Petri nets for Cybersecurity of Intelligent Networks, Grids and Clouds
Abstract : Correctness of networking protocols represents the principal requirement of cybersecurity. Correctness of protocols is established via the procedures of their verification. A classical communication system includes a pair of interacting systems. Recent developments of computing and communication grids for radio broadcasting, cellular networks, communication subsystems of supercomputers, specialized grids for numerical methods, and networks on chips require verification of protocols for any number of devices. A new class of infinite Petri nets has been introduced and studied for more than 10 years for modeling modern networks, clusters, computing grids, and clouds that also concerns automated manufacture, cellular automata, and biological systems. A finite specification of infinite nets has been offered in the form of a parametric multiset rewriting system that takes into consideration spatial structure on plane and in multidimensional lattices. A composition and analysis technique has been developed for investigation of infinite Petri nets. A case study of a square grid structure composition and analysis is presented. Parametric description of Petri nets, parametric representation of infinite systems for the calculation of place/transition invariants, and solving them in parametric form allowed the invariance proof for infinite Petri net models. Some additional analysis techniques based on graphs of transmissions and blockings are presented. Complex deadlocks has been revealed and classifies as: a loop of blockings; a chain of blockings ended on an already blocked vertex; because of isolation by neighboring blocked devices. Further generalization on multidimensional structures such as hypercube and hypertorus implemented. Torus structures play a key role in communication subsistems of super computers, clusters, and networks on chip. Generators of Petri net models developed and put on GitHub for public use. As a result of complex deadlocks disclosure, a possibility of network blocking via ill-intentioned traffic has been revealed. Prospects for further development of infinite Petri net theory are outlined.
Short bio: Dmitry A. Zaitsev received the Eng. degree in Applied Mathematics from Donetsk Polytechnic Institute, Donetsk, Ukraine, in 1986, the Ph.D. degree in Automated Control from the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1991, and the Dr.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications, Odessa, Ukraine, in 2006. He is a Professor of Information Technology at Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine since 2019. He developed the analysis of infinite Petri nets with regular structure, the decomposition of Petri nets in clans, generalized neighborhood for cellular automata, and the method of synthesis of fuzzy logic function given by tables. He developed Opera-Topaz software for manufacture operative planning and control; a new stack of networking protocols E6 and its implementation within Linux kernel; Petri net analysis software Deborah, Adriana, and ParAd; models of TCP, BGP, IOTP protocols, Ethernet, IP, MPLS, PBB, and Bluetooth networks. His current research interests include Petri net theory and its application in networking, computing and automated manufacture. Recently he started working in the area of exascale computing applying his theory of clans to speed-up solving sparse linear systems on parallel and distributed architectures. He was a co-director of joint projects with China and Austria. Recently he has been a visiting professor to Technical University of Dortmund, Germany on DAAD scholarship, to University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA on Fulbright scholarship and to Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. He published a monograph, 3 book chapters and more than a hundred of papers including issues listed in JCR. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.
Additional information including papers, software, models, video-lectures in put on personal web-site http://daze.ho.ua