NeTS: Small: Design and Initialization of Secure Wireless Networks: Foundations and Practice

NetS：小型：安全无线网络的设计和初始化：基础和实践

• 批准号: 1018464
• 负责人: Donald Towsley
• 金额: $ 42.5万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1018464&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Small; Design; Initialization; Secure

Wireless ad hoc networking has become a critical technology for nodes to communicate with each other in the absence of infrastructures such as base stations. It will be used in a variety of applications including wireless sensor networks, disaster recovery, and military on-the-field communications.Significant advances have been made in the area of wireless ad hoc networking at all levels of the protocol stack, MAC, routing, congestion control, etc., with an eye toward configuring networks so as to optimize metrics such as capacity, connectivity, delay, etc. However, there remain numerous issues that have not been satisfactorily dealt with, ranging from identifying network configurations to optimize emerging security metrics, to how to effect various desirable network configurations: namely, how does an ad hoc network bootstrap itself to realize the promised performance and security? We address this question in our research. Specifically we focus on the following:? Wireless network security: Characterize the tradeoff between performance and security in opportunistic wireless networks where eavesdroppers and/or jammers are present, and develop algorithms for providing secure communication in such environments.? Wireless Network configuration: Configure networks at the time of deployment, paying particular attention to facilitating the selection of "friendly jammers" and opportunistic relays as needed to enhance security.The outcome of this research will constitute a significant advance in the development of theoretical foundations, practical algorithms, and network architecture for configuring and securing wireless networks.

无线自组织网络已成为节点在缺乏基站等基础设施的情况下相互通信的关键技术。它将用于包括无线传感器网络、灾难恢复和军事现场通信等多种应用。无线自组织网络领域在协议栈、MAC、路由等各个层面都取得了重大进展、拥塞控制等，着眼于配置网络，以优化容量、连接性、延迟等指标。然而，仍然存在许多问题尚未得到令人满意的处理，从识别网络配置到优化新兴网络安全指标，如何影响各种理想的网络配置：即自组织网络如何引导自身以实现所承诺的性能和安全性？我们在研究中解决了这个问题。具体来说，我们关注以下几点：？无线网络安全：描述存在窃听者和/或干扰器的机会无线网络中性能和安全性之间的权衡，并开发在此类环境中提供安全通信的算法。无线网络配置：在部署时配置网络，特别注意根据需要选择“友好干扰器”和机会中继以增强安全性。这项研究的成果将构成理论基础发展的重大进步，用于配置和保护无线网络的实用算法和网络架构。