Research Areas

Our Focus

Cultivating the next great paradigm shift

The UCLA Connection Lab is designed to provide an environment that will support advanced research in technologies at the forefront of all things regarding connectivity.

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Advanced Network Protocol Design

Internet protocol design and architecture enables us all to efficiently work together. What will future protocols look like and how can they enhance the user experience?

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Blockchain

The rapidly expanding technology of blockchain is much more than currency and transaction anonymity. How do we use, expand, and advance the development of secure, efficient, and seamless blockchains to improve human interaction?

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Cryptography

How do we secure the seemingly infinite stream of data, public and personal, on the internet – and how do we ensure that the interactions we facilitate are safe from malice?

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Distributed Systems

Distributed systems surround us in today’s world of high technology including the internet, the cloud, social networks, blockchain, and more. When the multiple components of the system communicate and coordinate their actions properly, the system provides resilience, scalability, security and performance enhancements. The challenge is how to protect against inefficiencies, lost data, malicious behavior, and unforeseen failures.

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Networks

The backbone of all human interaction is the system it relies upon to function. In the online world, that’s the network. But it’s much more than the infrastructure of boxes and wires. It also takes innovation to imagine what the network of the future will look like and how to build it.

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Security

How do we keep up in a world with so many possible malicious actors and a system that was founded in a time when privacy and security were an afterthought?

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Wireless

Wireless technology is key to realizing the invisible internet by supporting mobility, IoT, 5G, and other advanced functionality. We anticipate and examine the leading edges of this technology.

Our Work

Bridging the gap between science and practice

Students and faculty are challenged with the opportunity to discover and investigate emerging technologies and their impact on interaction facilitated by connectivity.

Projects that bridge the gap between science and practice are at the core of the UCLA Connection Lab: Our approach is to develop interdisciplinary collaborative relationships with faculty, students, engineers, technologists, and corporate partners to make research findings practical, significant, and connected.

Managing Network Traffic

Given the scale and complexity of the internet, congestion control has always been an important research area. We continue to…

DNS Negative Caching in the Wild

Joint work with Tel-Aviv University professor Anat Bremler-Barr and PhD students Lior Shafir,  Neta Peleg, and Matan Sabag. We are measuring what…

Inventory Auctions via Function Secret Sharing

An inventory auction is a game in which each player wishes to either buy or sell some amount of a…

NXNSAttack: Recursive DNS Inefficiencies and Vulnerabilities

NXNSAttack: Recursive DNS Inefficiencies and Vulnerabilities: Joint work with Tel-Aviv University’s Prof. Anat Bremler-Barr and PhD student Lior Shafir. We…

Holdout SGD: Byzantine Tolerant Federated Learning

Joint work with Tel-Aviv University professors Amir Globerson and Tomer Koren, and students Shahar Azulay and Lior Raz. Here we develop and…

Making IoT Devices Safer

The IoT industry has become an increasingly attractive target for hackers. As more IoT devices with varying security safeguards enter…

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The UCLA Connection Lab is an open space for exploration. Do you have an idea that may impact the future of connectivity? You can collaborate on our projects and participate in upcoming events.