Certificate validation in military MANET based on overlay network of XKMS proxies

Author

Fongen, Anders ; Johnsen, Frank Trethan ; Winjum, Eli

Author_Institution

Norwegian Defence Res. Establ., Kjeller

fYear

2008

fDate

16-19 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Certificate validation in tactical wireless networks and MANETs is a hard problem, due to low bandwidth and frequent disconnections. We suggest a cooperative caching approach with an overlay network of XKMS proxies. The overlay network is discovered and maintained with only marginal increase in the network traffic. This is due to a cross layer design where the XKMS proxies tap into the OLSR routing protocol and utilize the topology information provided by the OLSR path discovery mechanisms.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; military communication; mobile radio; public key cryptography; routing protocols; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; OLSR path discovery mechanism; OLSR routing protocol; XKMS proxy; XML key management specification; certificate validation; military MANET; mobile ad hoc network; network traffic; optimized link state routing; overlay wireless network; public key cryptography; topology information; Bandwidth; Cooperative caching; Military computing; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network servers; Public key; Routing protocols; Service oriented architecture; Web services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2008. MILCOM 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2676-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2677-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753213

Filename

4753213