A secure wireless agent-based testbed

Author

Anderson, Gustave ; Urbano, Leonardo ; Naik, Gaurav ; Dorsey, David ; Mroczkowski, Andrew ; Artz, Donovan ; Morizio, Nicholas ; Burnheimer, Andrew ; Malfetone, Kris ; Lapadat, Dan ; Sultanik, Evan ; Garcia, Saturnino ; Peysakhov, Max ; Regli, William ; Ka

Author_Institution

Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

8-9 April 2004

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Secure mobile wireless ad-hoc networks are frequently described in the technical literature as highly-desired and feasible. However only few stable and scalable physical realizations of such MANETs were actually reported. Here, we describe SWAT (a secure wireless agent-based testbed), a physical network of handheld and stationary computing nodes that provide a practical industrial-strength MANET based on IEEE standard 802.11b and agent technology. The system, using HP iPAQ units and tablet PCs, implements secure group-based applications and allows for real-time user revocation. It integrates algorithms and techniques from several proposed software libraries, including CLIQUES, spread and secure spread, SEM, IPSec, and EMAA.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile agents; mobile computing; security of data; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; CLIQUES; EMAA; IEEE standard 802.11b; IPSec; SEM; Secure Spread; Spread; agent technology; real-time user revocation; secure group-based application; secure mobile wireless ad-hoc network; secure wireless agent-based testbed; software library; Ad hoc networks; Application software; Communication system security; Computer industry; Computer networks; Handheld computers; Mobile ad hoc networks; Personal communication networks; Physics computing; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Assurance Workshop, 2004. Proceedings. Second IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2117-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWIA.2004.1288035

Filename

1288035