Jim Binkley

I am a network engineer, researcher, and teacher in the Portland State University Computer Science department.

I can be contacted via email at jrb@cs.pdx.edu.

Background Information

PSU/CS classes

You should be able to find an ASCII text syllabus and other information for classes listed below. Times for classes during the 2008/2009 school year are shown. If a time is not shown, it means I have taught the class in the past but may or may not teach it again in the future. The syllabus is only up to date if the class is currently being taught, else it represents the last time the class was taught. If you are interested in a class, please look at the syllabus.

• CS 491/591 - Introduction to Computer Security (fall 2009, with Prof. Jim Hook)

  Fall 2009 - Class meets MW 2-3:50 NH 241

• CS 494/594 - TCPIP Networking
• CS 410/595 - Internet Routing and Network Management (winter 2010)
• CS 410/596 - Network Security (spring 2010)
• CS 572 - Operating Systems Internals with Bart Massey (fall 2009)

  Fall 2009 - Class meets TR 5:15-6:30 Cramer Hall 324

• CS 201 - Systems Programming

Research Interests

My research interests include network security, routing, and network management.

Currently a number of collaborators at OHSU, and PSU are working on a number of Portland MAN network projects including a layer 3 presence that includes an Internet2 connection and a layer 2 exchange. The layer 3 presence is called PREN (for Portland Regional and Educational Network). This project hopes to directly tie together local Portland universities with high-speed networking, and also hopes to tie those universities to Internet2 sites elsewhere. Our layer 2 exchange at the Pittock building and recently extended with fiber to Easystreet and Fortix is called NWAX for Northwest Area Exchange. This is an Ethernet-based MAN.

In the recent past at Portland State University, DARPA funded a project at PSU with the focus on mobile security. Please see the Secure Mobile Networking project link for more information. We have developed and deployed a version of Mobile-IP for FreeBSD.

PSU as a university and the Computer Science department have been given a 3 year certification by the NSA as a Center for Academic Excellance in Computer Science. Please see the following web page for information: PSU CIA .

The open source Ourmon system can be found at: ourmon . This page shows recent activity on PSU's core DMZ network. The latest open-source release of ourmon can be downloaded as well.

Publications/Papers

• "Rama: An Architecture for Internet Information Filtering," Jim Binkley, Leslie Young, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 5, 81-99, (1995), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. postscript

• "Dynamic Network Support for Mobile Computers," Jon Inouye, Jim Binkley, Jonathon Walpole, Proceedings of the Third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '97), Budapest, Hungary, September 26-30, 1997. postscript
  

• "Authenticated Ad Hoc Routing at the Link Layer for Mobile Systems," Jim Binkley and William Trost, Wireless Networks 7, 139-145, 2001. Kluwer Academic Publishers. postscript
  

• The following is an Internet Draft (draft-chambless-mobileip-harp-00.txt) that describes an experimental protocol aimed at providing Home Agent redundancy for Mobile-IP: "HARP - Home Agent Redundancy Protocol," Bjorn Chambless, Portland State University and Jim Binkley, Oregon Graduate Institute, October 1997. ASCII

• "Security Considerations for Mobility and Firewalls," Jim Binkley, Portland State University, and John Richardson, Intel. November 1998. Submitted as IETF draft in informational category. ASCII

• "A High-Speed Metropolitan Area Network Measurement Study," Jim Binkley, Portland State University, and Don Westlight, Oregon Graduate Institute, January 2001. This is available as an an HTML document.

• "An Integrated IPSEC and Mobile-IP for FreeBSD," Jim Binkley, Portland State University, PSU Technical Report 01-10, October 2001. ps

• "Locality, Network Control, and Anomaly Detection," James R. Binkley, Portland State University, John McHugh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Carrie Gates, Dalhousie University, PSU Technical Report 04-04. January 2005. ps

• "Ourmon and Network Monitoring Performance," James R. Binkley and Bart Massey, Computer Science, PSU, Proceedings of USENIX '05: FREENIX Track, April 2005. ps

• "Qin Notation Generator," Candy L. K. Yiu, Jim Binkley, Computer Science, PSU, Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting, TUGboat, Volume 26(2005), Number 2, 2005. pdf

• "An Algorithm for Anomaly-based Botnet Detection," James R. Binkley and Suresh Singh, Computer Science, PSU, USENIX SRUTI: '06 2nd Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet", July 7 2006. pdf

• "Anomaly-based Botnet Server Detection," James R. Binkley, Computer Science, PSU, FLOCON CERT/SEI, Vancouver WA, October 2006. pdf

• "The Virtually invisible Internet," Suresh Singh and Jim Binkley, IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GIS'07), May 11-12, 2007, Anchorage, Alaska. pdf

• "Traffic Analysis of UDP-based flows in Ourmon," Jim Binkley and Divya Parekh, PSU TR 2008-07, to be presented at FLOCON 2009, Phoenix, Arizona. pdf

• "Finding IRC-like Meshes Sans L7 Payloads," Akshay Dua, Jim Binkley, and Suresh Singh, PSU TR 2009-01 pdf

Publications/Books

• Botnets: The Killer Web App , Jim Binkley, Craig Schiller, ISBN 1597491357, Syngress, Jan. 2007

• Abiding With Antiquity , Jim Binkley, ISBN 978-1-4303-0346-6, Lulu, Dec. 2006

Chinese Music - Ch'in/Qin

• Gu-Chin music and urls of interest
• Yu-Ku-Chai Ch'in-pu translation