Kazuya Okada

Kazuya Okada

  • Network Security
    Edge Computing

Connected cars face new security threats on communication from vehicles to the Internet. Our challenge is to reveal the security threats and propose countermeasures to prevent the connected vehicles. Through our research, we will contribute to the realization of a convenient and secure connected car environment in the future.

  • Department

    • Digital Infrastructure Innovation Dept.,
      InfoTech Div.

  • Biography

    • 2022-
      present

      Researcher, Connected Advanced Development Div. , InfoTech, Connected Company, Toyota Motor Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

    • 2016-
      2021

      Assistant Professor, Campus-wide Computing Research Division, Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

    • 2013-
      2016

      Project Researcher, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan.

    • 2014

      Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.

    • 2009

      Master of Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.

  • Publication List/Conference presentation

    Journal/Conference/Workshop Papers

    • Kazuya Okada, Mearuement of Mobile Link Selection on Connected Vehicle, IEICE Technical Committee on Internet Architecture (IA), IEICE Technical Report, vol. 124, no. 393, IA2024-71, pp. 28-31, Mar, 2025.

    • ShowNet at Interop Tokyo: A Continuously Evolving, Demonstration Network/Part2 Technology Highlights of ShowNet 2024, Internet Protocol Journal

    • Kazuya Okada, Yuya Miyazaki, Shuichi Saito,Experimental Report on Local 5G at InteropTokyo 2024 -Enhancing the Tour Experience with Low-Latency Video and udio Streaming -, IEICE Technical Committee on Internet Architecture (IA), IEICE Tech, vol. 124, no. 196, IA2024-24, pp. 1-7, Oct. 2024.

    • A Dynamic IP Address Translation for Hiding Source and Destination Information, IEICE Technical Committee on Internet Architecture (IA), IEICE Tech. Rep., Mar. 2024.

    • Local 5G Trials on the InteropTokyo Shownet, IEICE Technical Committee on Internet Architecture (IA), IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 123, no. 201, IA2023-35, pp. 10-15, Oct. 2023.

    • Hiding Source and Destination Information on Connected Vehicle Communication, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Technical Committee on Network Systems (2023 March)

    • Service Mesh Controller for Cooperative Load Balancing among Neighboring Edge Servers, IEEE, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2022

    • Hiroshi Abe, Keiichi Shima, Daisuke Miyamoto, Yuji Sekiya, Tomohiro Ishihara, Kazuya Okada, Ryo Nakamura, Satoshi Matsuura, "Distributed Hayabusa: Scalable Syslog Search Engine Optimized for Time-Dimensional Search", The Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2019, August 2019.

    • Yuji Sekiya, Ryo Nakamura, Kazuya Okada, and Katsuhiro Horiba. Proposal of Next Generation Network Service Architecture Level by SDN and NFV. IEICE Transaction on Communications, Vol.J98-B, No.4, pp.333-344, April 2015. (in Japanese)

    • T.Suga, K.Okada, H.Esaki, “Toward Real-time Packet Classification for Preventing Malicious Traffic by Machine Learning”, 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technologies for Enhanced Network Management (AIMLEM 2019), Paris, France, February 2019.

    • K. Okada, S. Kashihara, Y. Kondo, N. Suzuki and H. Yokoyama, "Device-Based Network Selection for Edge Computing," 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2019, pp. 1-2. doi: 10.1109/CCNC.2019. (demo)

    • Kazuya Okada, Shigeru Kashihara, Nao Kawanishi, Nobuo Suzuki, Keizo Sugiyama and Youki Kadobayashi, "GoEdge: A Scalable and Stateless Local Breakout Method", Theory and Practice for Integrated Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing Paradigms (TOPIC 2018), July 2018.

    Conference presentation

    • Improving ShowNet Tour Experience by Local 5G Solutions, InteropTokyo2024, shownet.conf_

    • Local 5G Service Deployments in ShowNet2023, NANO OPT Media,Inc., shownet.conf_, 2023

    • Highly Available MQTT Broker with Apache Kafka Cluster, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), SIG Internet and Operation Technology (IOT)

    • Local 5G Experiments in ShowNet2022, NANO OPT Media,Inc., shownet.conf_, 2022

  • Research Project

    • Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2020 Real-time threat detection and prediction by analyzing cyber threat big data, CREST, JST.

    • Jun. 2013 - Mar. 2016 Nippon-European Cyberdefense-Oriented Multilayer threat Analysis Project (NECOMA Project), funded by FP7 program, EU and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan.

  • Commendation/Memberships

    Professional Activities

    • 2011-2012，2016- NOC, Interop Tokyo ShowNet

    • 2017- Curriculum Commitee, Advanced IT Architect Human Resource Development Council (AITAC)

    • 2015 LA Chair/Web Chair, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID)

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