Trusting User Defined Context in MANETs: Experience from the MIDAS Approach

Author

Westerlund, Vegar ; Pronstad, Thomas ; Tondel, Inger Anne ; Wienhofen, Leendert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim

fYear

2009

fDate

16-19 March 2009

Firstpage

681

Lastpage

686

Abstract

The MIDAS project has developed a middleware platform for context aware MANET services. A key problem with MANETs is the lack of a central authority and pre-existing trust. Thus it is hard to enable a trusted environment where context can be verified and trusted by peers. This paper describes how the MIDAS middleware can become "secure enough" for typical applications by identifying which existing security mechanisms are most apt to use. Benefits and shortcomings of the suggested solution are analysed and discussed.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; peer-to-peer computing; security of data; MIDAS project; context aware MANET services; middleware platform; security mechanisms; trusted environment; Availability; CADCAM; Computer aided manufacturing; Context awareness; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Information security; Middleware; Mobile ad hoc networks; Peer to peer computing; MANET; context; information security; trust;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Availability, Reliability and Security, 2009. ARES '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3572-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3564-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ARES.2009.112

Filename

5066547