Bharat Bhargava

Affiliation

Department of Computer Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47906

Research Interest

Professor Bhargava's research involves both theoretical and experimental studies in distributed systems. His research group has implemented a robust and adaptable distributed database system called RAID, an adaptable video conferencing system and is involved in networking research using ideas of active routers, diffserv, and mobileIP. Prof. Bhargava has conducted experiments in large scale distributed systems, communications, authentication, key management, fault-tolerance and Quality of Service. He is conducting experiments with large scale communication networks to support emerging applications such as digital library and multi-media databases. His current interests are in secure mobile systems, multimedia security and QoS as a security parameter.

Foresight

Disaster recovery after emergency such as earthquake, terrorist attack, war, depend on mobile systems for communications. Secure communication and survivability are of utmost importance. Intrusion prevention such as authentication and encryption can reduce security threats, but cannot eliminate them. Research is needed to develop intrusion detection mechanisms in mobile environments. Recovery from intrusion and failure is a challenging problem that needs to be solved.