Publications

Refereed Journals

Senthilkumar Chinnappa Gounder Periaswamy, Dale R. Thompson, and Jia Di, "Fingerprinting RFID tags," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, to appear. PDF
Dale R. Thompson and Griff L. Bilbro, “Sample-sort simulated annealing,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 625-632, June 2005. PDF
Dale R. Thompson and Khalid Al-Snaie, “Joint capacity and spare capacity placement with p-cyles,” IPSI BgD Transactions on Internet Research, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 34-37, July 2005. PDF
Dale R. Thompson and Griff L. Bilbro, “Comparison of a genetic algorithm with a simulated annealing algorithm for the design of an ATM network,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 267-269, Aug. 2000. PDF

Magazine

Craig Thompson and Dale R. Thompson, “Identity Management,” Architectural Perspectives column, IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 82-85, May/June 2007.

Book Chapters

Dale R. Thompson and Amy W. Apon, “Public network technologies and security,” in The Handbook of Information Security, vol. 1, H. Bidgoli, Ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006, pp. 473-488.
Dale R. Thompson and Amy W. Apon, “Public networks,” in The Internet Encyclopedia, vol. 3, H. Bidgoli, Ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004, pp. 166-176.

Conference Proceedings

Washington Cilio, Michael Linder, Chris Porter, Jia Di, Scott C. Smith, and Dale R. Thompson, "Side-channel attack mitigation using dual-spacer dual-rail delay-insensitive logic (D3L)," in IEEE SoutheastCon, 2010, Concord, NC, Mar. 18-21, 2010, pp. 471-474.
Senthilkumar Chinnappa Gounder Periaswamy, Dale R. Thompson, Henry P. Romero, and Jia Di, “Fingerprinting radio frequency identification tags using timing characteristics,” in Proc. Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDsec’10 Asia), Singapore, Feb. 22-23, 2010, pp. 73-82. PDF
Baha Alsaify and Dale R. Thompson, “Pendulum: an energy efficient protocol for wireless sensor networks,” in Proc. IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), Limerick, Ireland, Feb. 23-25, 2010, pp. 273-277.
Nurbek Saparkhojayev and Dale R. Thompson, “Matching Electronic Fingerprints of RFID Tags using the Hotelling's Algorithm”, in Proc. IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 17-19, 2009, pp. 19-24. PDF
Senthilkumar Chinnappa Gounder Periaswamy, Dale R. Thompson, and Jia Di, “Ownership transfer RFID tags based on electronic fingerprint,” in Proc. Int’l Conf. Security and Management (SAM), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 14-17, 2008. PDF
Senthilkumar Chinnappa Gounder Periaswamy, Suman Bharath, Manideep Chagarlamudi, Scott Estes, Dale R. Thompson, “Attack graphs for EPCglobal RFID,” in Proc. IEEE Region 5 Technical Conf., Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 20-21, 2007, pp. 391-396. PDF, Presentation: PDF, PPT
Micah Byers, Anthony Lofton, Anil Kumar Vangari-Balraj, and Dale R. Thompson, “Brute force attack of EPCglobal UHF class-1 generation-2 RFID tag,” in Proc. IEEE Region 5 Technical Conf., Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 20-21, 2007, pp. 386-390. PDF, Presentation: PDF, PPT
Jaanus Uudmae, Harshitha Sunkara, Dale R. Thompson, Sean Bruce, and Jayamadhuri Penumarthi, “MIXNET for radio frequency identification,” in Proc. IEEE Region 5 Technical Conf., Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 20-21, 2007, pp. 382-385. PDF, Presentation: PDF, PPT
Dale R. Thompson, Ji Di, Harshitha Sunkara, and Craig Thompson, “Categorizing RFID privacy threats with STRIDE,” in Proc. ACM Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 12-14, 2006.
Jonathon White and Dale R. Thompson, “Using synthetic decoys to digitally watermark personally-identifying data and to promote data security,” in Proc. Int’l Conf. Security and Management (SAM), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Jun. 26-29, 2006.
Khalid Al-Snaie and Dale R. Thompson, “Cut saturation for p-cycle design,” in Proc. IEEE Region 5 Technical, Professional, and Student Conf. (TPSC), San Antonio, Texas, April 7-9, 2006, pp. 236-242. PDF Presentation: PPT, PDF
Dale R. Thompson, “RFID technical tutorial,” The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 8-9, May, 2006. Presented at Mid-South Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC_MS), Memphis, Tennessee, Mar. 31 – Apr. 1, 2006. Abstract, PPT, PDF
Dale R. Thompson, Neeraj Chaudhry, and Craig W. Thompson, “RFID security threat model,” in Proc. Acxiom Laboratory for Applied Research (ALAR) Conf. on Applied Research in Information Technology, Conway, Arkansas, Mar. 3, 2006. PDF Presentation: PPT
Dale R. Thompson, “Sample-sort simulated annealing for parallel optimization,” in Proc. Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, Norman, OK, Oct. 4-5, 2005. PDF
Ram Kumar Ravalkol and Dale R. Thompson, “Service restorability in degree-based wavelength division multiplexing networks,” in Proc. IASTED Int’l Conf. Optical Communications Systems and Networks (OCSN), Banff, Canada, July 19-21, 2005, pp. 50-55. PDF Presentation: PPT, PDF
Jonathon White and Dale R. Thompson, “Load balancing on a grid using data characteristics,” in Proc. Int’l Conf. Grid Computing and Applications (GCA), Las Vegas, June 20-23, 2005, pp. 184-188. PDF
Asheq Khan and Dale R. Thompson, “Solving the WDM network operation problem using dynamic synchronous parallel simulated annealing,” in Proc. IEEE Southeastcon, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 8-10, 2005, pp. 296-301. PDF
Jonathon White and Dale R. Thompson, “Using census data for grid partitioning,” in Proc. Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, Norman, OK, Oct. 6-7, 2004. PDF
Dale R. Thompson, Brad Maxwell, and J. Pat Parkerson, “Building the big message authentication code,” in Proc. 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI), vol. 2, Orlando, FL, July 18-21, 2004, pp. 544-549. PDF Presentation: PPT
Dale R. Thompson and Seongjin Shin, “Mean value analysis of a database grid application,” in Proc. 3rd Int’l Conf. Networking, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, March 1-4, 2004, pp. 775-780. PDF Presentation: PPT Pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Dale R. Thompson, Amy Apon, Yuriko Yara, Jens Mache, and Russell Deaton, “Training a grid workforce,” in Proc. Oklahoma Supercomputer Symposium, Norman, OK, Sep. 25, 2003. PDF
Dale R. Thompson and Md. Tanveer Anwar, “Parallel recombinative simulated annealing for wavelength division multiplexing,” in Proc. Int’l Conf. Communications in Computing (CIC), Las Vegas, NV, June 23-26, 2003, pp. 212-217. PDF Presentation: PPT
Brad Maxwell, Dale R. Thompson, Greg Amerson, and Lance Johnson, “Analysis of CRC methods and potential data integrity exploits,” in Proc. Int’l Conf. Emerging Technologies, Minneapolis, MN, Aug. 25-26, 2003. PDF
Em Ward, Douglas S. Blank, Douglas Rolniak, and Dale R. Thompson, “Complexity as fitness for evolved cellular automata update rules,” in Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Late-Breaking Papers (GECCO), San Francisco, CA, July 9-11, 2001, pp. 463-468. PDF Presentation: PPT
Dale R. Thompson and Griff L. Bilbro, “Comparison of two swap heuristics with a genetic algorithm for the design of an ATM network”, in Proc. 7th Int’l Conf. Computer Communications and Networks, Lafayette, Louisiana, Oct. 12-15, 1998, pp. 833-837. PDF
Dale R. Thompson, Robert J. Moorhead, and Wayne D. Smith, “Advanced solid rocket motor (ASRM) communications network analysis using BONeS”, in Proc. IEEE Southeastcon, Birmingham, AL, April 12-15, 1992, pp. 276-282. PDF
Dale R. Thompson, Robert J. Moorhead, and Wayne D. Smith, “Advanced solid rocket motor (ASRM) communications network analysis”, in Proc. 1st Int’l Conf. Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N), San Diego, CA, June 8-10, 1992, pp. 107-111. PDF

Ph.D. Students

Senthilkumar Chinnappa Gounder Periaswamy (Senthilkumar CP), “Authentication of Radio Frequency Identification Devices Using Electronic Characteristics,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2010. Start date: Jan. 2008.
Khalid A. Al-Snaie, “P-cycles in wavelength division multiplexing networks for different topologies,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, May 2005. Start date: Aug. 2001.

M.S. Students

Nihad J. Majid, “Detailed timing analysis using genetic algorithms,” M.S. thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, May 2001. Start date: Aug. 2000.
Zhichun Xiao, “Routing and wavelength assignment using parallel recombinative simulated annealing,” M.S. project in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2001. Start date: Jun. 2001.
Mohammad Tina, “Secure e-mail,” M.S. project in Telecommunications Engineering, Dept. Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, May 2003. Start date: Aug. 2002.
Seongjin Shin, “Approximate mean value analysis of a database grid application,” M.S. thesis in Computer Science, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Aug. 2003. Start date: Aug. 2002.
Asheq Khan, “Solving the WDM network operation problem using parallel simulated annealing,” M.S. thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Aug. 2003. Start date: Aug. 2002.
Justin T. Vaughn, “Visualization of optimized wavelength division multiplexed networks,” M.S. project in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2003. Start date: Aug. 2002.
J. Brad Maxwell, “Transactional audit identification with non-repudiation protocol and a big message authentication code,” M.S. thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, May 2004. Start date: Jan. 2003.
Ram Ravalkol, “Service restorability in degree-based wavelength division multiplexing networks,” M.S. project in Computer Science, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, May 2005. Start date: Jan. 2004.
Jonathan White, “American dataset generation program: creation, applications, and significance,” M.S. thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Aug. 2005. Start date: May 2004.
Yein Yein Loh, “Partitioning mechanism for in-memory distributed database,” M.S. thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Aug. 2005. Start date: Jan. 2004.
Neeraj Chaudhry, “RFID technical tutorial and threat modeling,” M.S. project in Computer Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Dec. 2005. Start date: Jan. 2005
Anthony Lofton, “Mimicking RFID readers using honeyd honeypots for intrusion detection,” M.S. thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, May, 2006. Start date: Aug. 2005.
Harshitha Sunkara, “MIXNET Using Universal Re-Encryption for Radio Frequency Identification,” M.S. thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2006. Start date: Jan. 2006.
Jaanus Uudmae, “Analysis of the privacy policies of most visited web sites,” M.S. thesis in Computer Science, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, May 2007. Start date: May 2006.
Senthilkumar Chinnappa Gounder Periaswamy, “Fingerprinting RFID tags,” M.S. thesis in Computer Science, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2007. Start date: Aug. 2005.
Nurbek Saparkhojayev, “Statistical classifier: case study of the Hotelling’s two-sample T^2 algorithm in the presence of noise,” M.S. thesis in Computer Science, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, May 2008. Start date: Aug. 2007.
Kelli Lee, “Machine learning classification analysis of music statistics,” M.S. thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2008. Start date: Jan. 2008.
Uday Sharma Chakkirala, “RFID tag placement on apparel using RSSI and read count,” M.S. project in Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Dec. 2010. Start date: Aug. 2009
Aigul Khabdulina, “Deterring free-riding behavior in BitTorrent peer-to-peer networks,” M.S. thesis in Computer Science, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2010. Start date: Jun. 2009.

Undergraduate Research including Honors Theses

Tyler Warren, “Portable network analyzer,” Honors thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Expected date of graduation: May 2011. Start date: Aug. 2009.
Eric Specking, “RFID-enabled access control security testing,” Honors thesis in Computer Engineering, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2009. Start date: Aug. 15, 2008.
Barret Miller, “Steganography in IPv6,” Honors thesis in Computer Science, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Dec. 2008. Start date: Jan. 1, 2008.
Ross Urban, “Behavior of Radio Frequency Identification Readers Acting as RFID Tags: Analyzing a Second RFID Reader Using this Technique,” B.S. project, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Jun. 2007 – Dec. 2007.
Richard Vernon, “Analysis of hacker tools and techniques through the deployment of a first generation honeynet,” B.S. undergraduate project, Dept. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, May 2003. Start date: Aug. 2002. Accepted into the NSF Cybercorp Scholarship for Service program at Naval Post Graduate School.

Other Publications

'Fingerprinting' RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology article about research originally appeared on University of Arkansas Daily Headlines on 11/19/09. The topic of this article appeared on at least seven other online news websites including Slashdot.
- Slashdot
Neeraj Chaudhry, Dale R. Thompson, and Craig Thompson, RFID Technical Tutorial and Threat Modeling, ver. 1.0, tech. report, Dept. of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Dec. 8, 2005. Available: http://csce.uark.edu/~drt/ PDF
Dale R. Thompson, “Genetic algorithm with population sizing for the concentrator location problem,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, 2000.
Dale R. Thompson, “Advanced solid rocket motor (ASRM) communications network analysis,” M.S. thesis, Dept. Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State Univ., 1992.