Enforcing service availability in mobile ad-hoc WANs

Author

Buttyán, Levente ; Hubaux, Jean-Pierre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Syst., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

96

Abstract

We address the problem of service availability in mobile ad-hoc WANs. We present a secure mechanism to stimulate end users to keep their devices turned on, to refrain from overloading the network, and to thwart tampering aimed at converting the device into a “selfish” one. Our solution is based on the application of a tamper resistant security module in each device and cryptographic protection of messages

Keywords

computer network reliability; cryptography; land mobile radio; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication security; wide area networks; Terminodes project; cellular networks; cryptographic message protection; mobile ad-hoc WAN; packet forwarding protocol; performance analysis; secure mechanism; service availability; tamper resistant security module; Ad hoc networks; Application software; Availability; Circuits; Communication system security; Computer applications; Cryptography; Mobile communication; Protection; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2000. MobiHOC. 2000 First Annual Workshop on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6534-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBHOC.2000.869216

Filename

869216