Adrian Perrig wins IEEE S&P test-of-time award
At the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022, professor Adrian Perrig and his colleagues received a test-of-time award for their first publication on the SCION network technology. Perrig heads the Network Security Group at the Department of Computer Science and is the inventor of SCION. Congratulations!
At this year's IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the prestigious award was given to the authors of the first paper on SCION, published in 2011, Xin Zhang, Hsu-Chun Hsiao, Geoffrey Hasker, Haoween Chan, Adrian Perrig, and David Andersen. The title of the paper explains what the name SCION stands for: “SCION: Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation Networks”. This award honours papers from ten years ago that had a substantial impact on the field of security and privacy.
Invented and developed by Perrig, the SCION network technology provides fast, secure and reliable connections for data transfer. In contrast to the conventional internet infrastructure, a data packet sent via SCION not only carries the receiver's address, but also contains the entire path from the sender to the receiver. Such path-based packet forwarding provides several powerful properties, such as path transparency, geo-fencing, stable and predictable forwarding. Thanks to the high efficiency and security of SCION, Perrig and his colleagues are well on their way to re-build a trustworthy and reliable Internet.
Professor Adrian Perrig leads the Network Security Group at the Department of Computer Science. He is also a distinguished fellow at CyLab and an adjunct professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2002 to 2012, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering, engineering and public policy, and computer science (courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon University, becoming full professor in 2009. Prof. Perrig's research revolves around building secure systems — in particular, his group is working on the SCION secure Internet architecture. In 2021, Perrig has been named IEEE Fellow.
About IEEE S&P
The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy since 1980. The 2022 Symposium marked the 43rd annual meeting of this flagship conference and was held on May 23-25 in San Francisco, California. external pageTo the IEEE S&P website