Research Interest

My research interest is mainly focused on network security, particularly building secure Internet protocols, robust Internet architectures, new generation secure Internet, and firewalls.

Publications

Subrata Acharya, Mehmud Abliz, Bryan Mills, Taieb F. Znati. "OPTWALL: A Hierarchical Traffic-Aware Firewall." In Proceedings of the Network & Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, Feb 2007. [PDF]

Shi-Kuo Chang, Mehmud Abliz, Yaw Gyamfi, Chang Liu. "A Visual Application Generator for the Chronobot." International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, San Francisco, CA, Sep 2007.

Posters

Mehmud Abliz. "OPTWALL: A Hierarchical Traffic-Aware Firewall." Runner-up & People's Choice Award in Poster Competition in 7th Annual Computer Science Day of Computer Science Department, Pittsburgh, PA, Feb 2007. [PPT]