Secure and Resilient Networking and Data Transport

Wireless networks enable flexible deployment, and wireless meshes enhance this flexibility by further eliminating the need for complete coverage by access points or base stations. Wireless meshes offer additional resilience in the form of path redundancy and diversity, providing stronger protections against network failure or denial-of-service. This resilience therefore enables support for unique applications and capabilities for emergency/disaster communication, underserved areas, or to provide cellular offload. We are developing an integrated architecture for heterogeneous mesh protocols and mesh nodes to form one unified mesh system to seamlessly support a wide variety of applications and usage scenarios, even in the face of mobility, malicious and selfish behavior, or strong (and potentially dynamic) policies on security, privacy, and anonymity. In this new architecture, we are investigating a variety of threats and issues in an effort to design a suite of protocols to provide end-to-end resilience and security.

Related Publications

Acknowledgements

This research is partially supported by CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University under grant DAAD19-02-1-0389 from the Army Research Office and by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1149582. The views and conclusions contained in print and online are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either express or implied, of ARO, CMU, NSF, or the U.S. Government or any of its agencies.