Patents

• M. S. Jarrett, et al, "Clean store for operating system and software recovery," U.S. Patent 8 612 398, December 17, 2013.
• M. S. Jarrett, A. M. Marinescu, M. G. Gheorghescu, G. C. Chicioreanu, "Thread scanning and patching to disable injected malware threats," U.S. Patent 8 387 139, February 26, 2013.
• M. S. Jarrett, "Resource-reordered remediation of malware threats," U.S. Patent 8 087 061, December 27, 2011.

Published Papers

• M. Jarrett and R. Seviora, "Constructing an Autonomic Computing Infrastructure Using Cougaar", Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASE 2006), March 2006, pp. 119-128. IEEE Xplore
• M. Jarrett and R. Seviora, "Diversity to Enhance Autonomic Computing Self-Protection", The First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2006), April 2006, pp. 295-299. IEEE Xplore
• M. Jarrett and P. Ward, "Trusted Computing for Protecting Ad-hoc Routing", Proceedings of the 4th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2006), May 2006, pp. 61-68. IEEE Xplore

Computer Engineering - University of Waterloo

Work Term Reports

• Tracing Java Operations in Hotspot April 2003
  Describes the difficulties involved in tracing critical operations in the "Hotspot" Java Virtual Machine from Sun Microsystems. Results of an implementation of these tracing features are described. PDF
• Visualizing an Object Memory Simulator August 2002
  Documentation of work done to allow a visual inspection of a memory system simulator's state using the GCSpy tool. PDF
• Circumventing the Wired Equivalent Privacy Protocol December 2001
  Outlines experiments targeting the Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption and authentication scheme of 802.11 wireless networks, and the conclusions reached from these experiments. PDF

Class Projects

• A PKI for Trusted Pervasive Computing August 2004
  Final Project: ECE750-6 - Pervasive Computing
  Describes a public key infrastructure rooted in PGP-like web-of-trust ideas, used for remote attestation verification in a trusted computing environment. Two example scenarios demonstrate how such a system could be effective for a pervasive computing environment. PDF
• Survey of Trusted Computing Technologies and Challenges August 2004
  Survey: ECE750-6 - Pervasive Computing
  Outlines the approaches taken by several industry groups in the area of trusted computing, and some of the challenges still faced. PDF
• Adjustable Autonomy for Autonomic Computing July 2004
  Final Project: CS886 - Multi-Agent Systems
  Outlines the need for autonomic computing, and describes a solution based on a cooperative multi-agent system. Outlines the need for adjustable autonomy to make such a system usable, and makes accomodation in the design for adjustable autonomy. PDF
• YabAI - Winner of the First RoboCup Rescue Competition July 2004
  Project 3: CS886 - Multi-Agent Systems
  Discusses the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League competition for 2001. The winning agent team, YabAI, is analysed, and conclusions drawn about the competition and YabAI based on its performance. PDF
• Analysis of SouthamptonTAC in TAC'01 June 2004
  Project 2: CS886 - Multi-Agent Systems
  Discusses the second Trading Agent Competition in Tampa in 2001, and analyses the features of SouthamptonTAC, a finalist in the competition. PDF
• Investigation into Features of Public Key Infrastructures April 2004
  Final Project: ECE628 - Computer Network Security
  An overview of challenges and current technologies available for the management and distribution of public keys for public key based cryptosystems. PDF
• Re-Engineering the Java Buffer Library with OpenJava December 2003
  Final Project: ECE750-7 - Software System Family Design and Generative Programming.
  Description of an attempt to use the OpenJava preprocessor to generate code in the Java NIO buffer library. PDF
• An Architecture for Self-Protecting Autonomic Systems" revised August 2003
  Final Project: GENE 401 - Special Directed Studies.
  A description of security issues as applied to autonomic computing. A basic architecture is described, and a description of the critical components given. An approach to investigating autonomic security further is described. PDF
• Management Technologies for a Pervasive Computing System July 2003
  Research Proposal: ECE750 - Distributed and Network Centric Computing.
  Surveys the technologies that could be used to provide management of pervasive computing technologies. Across several areas of pervasive computing management, several common approaches were found, leading to the proposal that these techniques could be used in a more general case. PDF