Patrick Tague

Patrick Tague is a member of the research faculty at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. He received MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and BS degrees in Mathematics and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota. His PhD research focused on modeling and evaluating vulnerabilities in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks and designing networking protocols that are robust to failure and attack. His general research interests include mobile communication systems, statistical modeling and inference, and network security.

Research Areas

Next Generation Secure and Available Networks

Cross Cutting Thrusts

Next Generation Threat Prediction and Response

Threat Analysis and Modeling

recent publications

A Game-Theoretic Framework for Jamming Attacks and Mitigation in Commercial Aircraft Wireless NetworksDavid Slater, Patrick Tague, Mingyan Li, and Radha Poovendran,AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, April 2009.

Evaluating the Vulnerability of Network Traffic Using Joint Security and Routing AnalysisPatrick Tague, David Slater, Jason Rogers, and Radha Poovendran, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 111-123, April-June 2009.

Mitigation of Control Channel Jamming under Node Capture AttacksPatrick Tague, Mingyan Li, and Radha Poovendran, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 8, no. 9, September 2009.

Tradeoffs Between Jamming Resilience and Communication Efficiency in Key EstablishmentDavid Slater, Radha Poovendran, Patrick Tague, and Brian J. Matt, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2009. (Invited Paper)