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Secure Collaborative Services for Wireless Mesh Networks

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Overview

Group-oriented services are envisioned to be an important class of application in the environment of wireless mesh networks. This project focuses on developing scalable, robust, and secure group communication protocols for wireless mesh networks. In particular, we will

• Build a wireless mesh test-bed for experiments and protocol validation
• Develop distributed protocols for efficient group communication (multicast, broadcast) in wireless mesh networks
• Investigate and develop efficient and robust group key management protocol in wireless mesh networks
• Study the viability and limitations of cross-layer design as a new paradigm of building secure network services

Publications

On the Pitfalls of Using High-Throughput Metrics in Adversarial Wireless Mesh Networks, J. Dong, R. Curtmola and C. Nita-Rotaru. In the Fifth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2008), San Francisco CA, June 2008.

Secure Group Communication in Wireless Mesh Networks. In Ninth IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM), Newport Beach, CA, June, 2008. J. Dong, K. Ackermann, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

Mitigating Attacks against Virtual Coordinate System Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. J. Dong, B. Bhavar, E. Ackermann and C. Nita-Rotaru. In First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Alexandria, VA, March 2008.

BSMR: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Multicast Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Networks. R. Curtmola and C. Nita-Rotaru. In SECON 2007, June 2007, San Diego, CA. [ PDF ] An extended version is available as Technical Report CSD TR 07-005, March 2007. [ PDF ]

ODSBR: An On-Demand Secure Byzantine Resilient Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Baruch Awerbuch, Reza Curtmola, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (TISSEC), 2007. [PDF].

Presentations

Enabling Collaborative Applications in Wireless Mesh Networks. Motorola Labs, Chicago, IL, July 2007.

Building Trustworthy Mesh Networks. Presented at Microsoft Research, Mesh Networking Group, February 2006.

Students

Current Members

• Reza Curtmola, Postdoctoral Research Associate
• Kurt Ackermann, Undergraduate Student
• Jing Dong, Graduate Student

Previous Members

• David Zage Graduate Student
• David Inman, Undergraduate Student
• Brett Bhavar, Undergraduate Student

Software

• Byzantine attacks module for NS2 : This module provides the capability to simulate the black hole, Byzantine wormhole, and Byzantine overlay network wormhole attacks without modifying the routing protocol.

Related Courses

• Wireless Network Security (CS 590W) - Fall 2006.
• Distributed Systems (CS 603) - Spring 2006.
• Insider Threats to Information Systems (CS 590T) - Fall 2004.
• Cryptography (CS 555) - graduate course - Spring 2005.
• Cryptography - undergraduate course (CS 355) - Spring 2007.
• Security Topics in Networking and Distributed Systems (CS 590D) - Spring 2004.

Resources

Wireless Test-beds

• Microsoft Mesh Networking -- http://research.microsoft.com/mesh
• Mesh@Purdue -- https://engineering.purdue.edu/MESH
• JHU SMesh -- http://www.smesh.org
• MIT Roofnet -- http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/roofnet/doku.php
• MIT Grid Project -- http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/grid/testbed.html
• UCSB MeshNet -- http://moment.cs.ucsb.edu/meshnet/
• Orbit Lab -- http://www.orbit-lab.org
• Carleton mesh -- http://kunz-pc.sce.carleton.ca/MESH/index.htm
• MINT at SUNY SB -- http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mint/

Funding

This project is funded by the NSF CyberTrust Program, Career: Scalable, Robust and Secure Group-Oriented Services for Wireless Mesh Networks. Principal Investigator: Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University).