Quentin Monnet

Research

I have some research activities in high-performance networking environment. In particular, I feel interested in:

Linux eBPF subsystem, for packet filtering and processing.
Software Defined Networks.
High speed networking solution, such as DPDK or Linux XDP.
To a lesser extent, security against (D)DoS, or FPGA usage in high-speed networks.
…

Before that, I have worked for several years on security against denial of service attacks in wireless sensor networks (and in particular in wireless sensor networks, WSNs). At this time, topics of interest included:

Computer and network security,
Wireless communication,
MAC protocols,
Network sensors,
…

Ph. D. thesis

In July, 17th 2015 I defended my PhD thesis, that I prepared at the LACL (Laboratory of Algorithmic, Complexity and Logic). This is a laboratory of Université Paris-Est, in France.

Under the direction of Pr Lynda Mokdad, I have worked on security against denial of service (DoS) attacks in wireless networks.

Title:

Mechanisms and Modeling Tools for Protection Against Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract
“ Wireless sensor networks are made of small devices with low resources (low computing power, little memory and little energy available), communicating through electromagnetic transmissions. In spite of these limitations, sensors are able to self-deploy and to auto-organize into a network collecting, gathering and forwarding data about their environment to the user. Today those networks are used for many purposes: “intelligent transportation”, monitoring pollution level in the environment, detecting fires, or the “Internet of things” are some example applications involving sensors. Some of them, such as applications from medical or military domains, have strong security requirements. The work of this thesis focuses on protection against “denial of service” attacks which are meant to harm the good functioning of the network. It relies on the use of monitoring sensors: these sentinels are periodically renewed so as to better balance the energy consumption. New mechanisms are introduced so as to establish an efficient selection process for those sensors: the first one favors the ease of deployment (random selection), while the second one promotes load balancing (selection based on residual energy) and the last one is about better security (democratic election based on reputation scores). Furthermore, some tools are provided to model the system as continuous-time Markov chains, as stochastic Petri networks (which are reusable for model checking operations) or even as quantitative games. ”

Abstract

“ Wireless sensor networks are made of small devices with low resources (low computing power, little memory and little energy available), communicating through electromagnetic transmissions. In spite of these limitations, sensors are able to self-deploy and to auto-organize into a network collecting, gathering and forwarding data about their environment to the user. Today those networks are used for many purposes: “intelligent transportation”, monitoring pollution level in the environment, detecting fires, or the “Internet of things” are some example applications involving sensors. Some of them, such as applications from medical or military domains, have strong security requirements.

The work of this thesis focuses on protection against “denial of service” attacks which are meant to harm the good functioning of the network. It relies on the use of monitoring sensors: these sentinels are periodically renewed so as to better balance the energy consumption. New mechanisms are introduced so as to establish an efficient selection process for those sensors: the first one favors the ease of deployment (random selection), while the second one promotes load balancing (selection based on residual energy) and the last one is about better security (democratic election based on reputation scores). Furthermore, some tools are provided to model the system as continuous-time Markov chains, as stochastic Petri networks (which are reusable for model checking operations) or even as quantitative games. ”

Thesis manuscript (⚠ in French ⚠) (access LaTeX source code)

Publications

Journals

Quentin MONNET, Lynda MOKDAD, Paolo BALLARINI, Youcef HAMMAL, Jalel BEN-OTHMAN.
DoS detection in WSNs: Energy-efficient methods for selecting monitoring nodes
In Concurrency and Computation, Volume 29, Issue 23, September 2017.

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Youcef HAMMAL, Quentin MONNET, Lynda MOKDAD, Jalel BEN-OTHMAN, Abdelkarim ABDELLI.
Timed automata based modeling and veriﬁcation of denial of service attacks in wireless sensor networks
In Studia Informatica Universalis, Volume 12, Issue 1, pages 1−46, 2014.

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Paolo BALLARINI, Lynda MOKDAD, Quentin MONNET.
Modeling tools for detecting DoS attacks in WSNs
In Security and Communication Networks, Volume 6, Issue 4, pages 420−436, April 2013.

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Conferences

Quentin MONNET, Mathieu SASSOLAS, Lynda MOKDAD.
Modeling DoS Attacks in WSNs with Quantitative Games In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’17), May 21st−25th, 2017, Paris, France.

Quentin MONNET, Youcef HAMMAL, Lynda MOKDAD, Jalel BEN-OTHMAN.
Fair Election of Monitoring Nodes in WSNs
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM, GC’15), December 6th−10th, 2015, San Diego, CA, USA.

William HURST, Nathan SHONE, Quentin MONNET.
Predicting the Effects of DDoS Attacks on a Network of Critical Infrastructures
In Proceedings of the thirteenth IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC’15), October 26th−28th, 2015, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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Quentin MONNET, Lynda MOKDAD, Jalel BEN-OTHMAN.
Energy-balancing method to detect denial of service attacks in wireless sensor networks
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’14), June 10th−14th, 2014, Sydney, Australia.

Quentin MONNET, Lynda MOKDAD, Jalel BEN-OTHMAN.
Data protection in Multipaths WSNs
In Proceedings of the eighteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’13), July 7th, 2013, Split, Croatia.

Said FOUCHAL, Quentin MONNET, Djamel MANSOURI, Lynda MOKDAD, Malika IOUALALEN.
A new clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks
In Proceedings of the seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’12), July 1st, 2012, Cappadocia, Turkey.

Others

Quentin MONNET.
OpenState: An Interface for Stateful Packet Processing in Programmable Switches
IEEE Software Defined Networks — IEEE Softwarization eNewsletter, March 2017.

Link

Quentin MONNET, Lynda MOKDAD.
DoS detection in WSNs: Energy-efficient designs and modeling tools for choosing monitoring nodes
In Modeling and Simulation of Computer Networks and Systems Chapter 28, pages 795 to 840.
Editors: Mohammad S. OBAIDAT, Faouzi ZARAI, Petros NICOPOLITIDIS. Publisher: Elsevier, April 23rd, 2015.

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Quentin MONNET.
S-MAC protocol vulnerabilities to DoS attacks
Technical report, unpublished (2012).

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You may also download a poster (in French) I realized for the Doctoriales® Paris-Est 2012. As the PDF version is heavy, you should probably have a look at the JPEG preview first.

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References

In case it might turn useful, following file contains citations in BibTeX format for all above publications.

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