SAFEMITS Distributed Services in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Dynamic mobile ad hoc networks, such as those encountered on the battlefield or on today’s electronic roadway-the Internet, would benefit from a secure selforganizing mobile network infrastructure to gather and disseminate real-time information. In a large commercial or noncommercial network it is conceivable that a substantial number of highly mobile data sources and users may be scattered over a wide area with little or no fixed network support. These unstructured mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) consist of a wide variety of information sources and require the use of distributed services and specialized networking protocols to address the challenges of mobility, dispersion, dynamic reconfiguration along with enhanced security systems to prevent against attack or intrusion. Our work described in this paper introduces the Secure Architecture For Extensible Mobile Internet Transport Services architecture based on three distributed services referred to as lookup, compositional and adaptation services. By incorporating multiple security mechanisms, it is possible to secure application specific network and system services defined in a distributed mobile ad-hoc network.