Aanjhan Ranganathan

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

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Aanjhan is currently pursuing his PhD with the System Security Group at ETH Zurich since September 2010. His research mostly revolves around the physical layer security of wireless systems (e.g., secure localization and ranging, GPS security, (anti-)jamming techniques). In the past, he has worked a bit on computer architectures, specifically, multiprocessor systems, cache coherency protocols and communication bus protocols.

Prior to joining the System Security group at ETH Zurich, he worked at Robert Bosch GmbH's Car Multimedia Division "Blaupunkt" for over 3 years involved in research and development of embedded modules for top Automotive manufacturers including Audi and Volkswagen. He holds a bachelors degree in Electronic and Communication engineering from Anna University in Chennai, India and a Masters degree from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Publications and Technical Reports

2013

 

• On Limitations of Friendly Jamming for Confidentiality
  Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Luka Malisa, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Srdjan Capkun
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2013 [PDF]

2012

 

• Enabling Trusted Scheduling in Embedded Systems
  Ramya Jayaram Masti, Claudio Marforio, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Aurélien Francillon and Srdjan Capkun
  In Proceedings of 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2012 [PDF]
• Design and Implementation of a Terrorist-Fraud Resilient Distance Bounding System
  Aanjhan Ranganathan, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Boris Skoric, Dave Singelee and Srdjan Capkun
  In Proceedings of 17th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2012 [PDF]
• Counting Stream Registers: An Efficient and Effective Snoop Filter Architecture
  Aanjhan Ranganathan, Ali Bayrak, Theo Kluter, Philip Brisk, Edoardo Charbon and Paolo Ienne
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Embedded Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS XII), 2012 [PDF]
• FMCW-based Realization of Distance Bounding Protocols
  Aanjhan Ranganathan, Boris Danev, Srdjan Capkun
  Poster at ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2012
• Physical-Layer Attacks on Chirp-based Ranging Systems
  Aanjhan Ranganathan, Boris Danev, Aurélien Francillon, Srdjan Capkun
  In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2012 [PDF]

Pre ETH Zurich

• "Snoop Filtering for Low Power Embedded Multiprocessor Systems", Master Thesis Fall 2010, EPFL. [pdf]
• Poster on "Mounting of Version Control Repositories - RepoFS", Prashanth Mohan and Aanjhan Ranganathan, IEEE High Performance Computing Conference 2006 [pdf]
• Linux and *BSD feasibility study for Automotive Embedded Software. SIAT 2007 International Conference at Pune, INDIA (SAE Paper No. 2007-26-057)

Projects (Co)supervised

• "On the Security of Powerline Communication Systems", Baron Oldenburg, Semester project, AS 2012/2013.
• "Smart and Secure WiFi Pairing", Pascal Brogle, Masters Thesis, SS 2011.

Teaching

• Design of Digital Circuits (6 ECTS), (Püschel/Gurkaynak), 252-0014-00L, Spring semester 2013
• Design of Digital Circuits (6 ECTS), (Capkun/Gurkaynak), 252-0014-00L, Spring semester 2012
• Design of Digital Circuits (6 ECTS), (Capkun/Gurkaynak), 252-0014-00L, Spring semester 2011

Pre ETH Zurich

• Teaching Assistant for "Hardware System Modelling" course at EPFL under Prof. Alain Vachoux
• Teaching assistant for the semi-custom design part for the laboratory course "EDA based VLSI Design" at EPFL under Prof. Alain Vachoux