A secure ATM VP coordination protocol

Author

Kroculick, Joseph ; Hood, Cynthia

Author_Institution

Tellabs Inc., Bolingbrook, IL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

18-21 Oct 1998

Firstpage

1023

Abstract

The ATM will likely be used in the future to provide mission critical communications for military applications that require virtually fault-transparent service. To ensure this quality of service in a hostile environment, communication between ATM nodes requires strong security. An ATM coordination protocol effective for rerouting groups of virtual paths away from a network failure is proposed. Authentication of ATM end-points is combined with a protocol used to switch working traffic to protection resources. Authentication allows the source and sink end-points to absolutely identify each other such that a third host cannot impersonate one of the two

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; cryptography; local area networks; military communication; protocols; quality of service; telecommunication security; telecommunication traffic; wide area networks; ATM end-points authentication; ATM nodes; LAN/WAN integration; communication security; cryptography; fault-transparent service; hostile environment; military applications; mission critical communications; network failure; protection resources; quality of service; secure ATM VP coordination protocol; sink end-point; source end-point; traffic switching; Asynchronous transfer mode; Authentication; Communication switching; Military communication; Mission critical systems; Protection; Protocols; Quality of service; Switches; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1998. MILCOM 98. Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4506-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1998.727003

Filename

727003