Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/MOBHOC.2000.869216
