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SWAN: Survivable Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

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Overview

Survivable protocols are protocols able to provide service in the presence of attacks and failures. The strongest attacks that protocols can experience are attacks where adversaries have full control of a number of nodes that behave arbitrarily to disrupt the network. Such attacks are often referred as Byzantine attacks. In such a case, authentication and integrity mechanisms are not enough to guarantee correct service, since once an adversary compromises a node he has full control over all cryptographic keys stored on that node.

A key component of ad hoc wireless networks is an efficient and secure routing protocol, since all of the nodes in the network act as routers. The project focuses on providing routing survivability under an adversarial model where any intermediate node or group of nodes can perform Byzantine attacks such as creating routing loops, misrouting packets on non-optimal paths, or selectively dropping packets. In addition, the project examines defense mechanisms against wireless specific attacks such as wormholes and flood rushing attacks. We examine both on-demand routing and position-based routing. In the case of positon-based routing, position services play a critical role since an attacker can affect the routing itself by attacking the position service.

Students and Post-Doctoral Reasearch Associates

Current members:

• Jing Dong, Graduate student
• Josh Olsen, Undergraduate student

Previous members

• Dr. Bogdan Carbunar, currently with Motorola.
• Dr. Xiaoxin Wu, currently with Intel China.

Collaborators

Faculty

• Baruch Awerbuch, Johns Hopkins University

  Students

• Reza Curtmola, Johns Hopkins University
• Dave Holmer, Johns Hopkins University
• Herbert Rubens, Johns Hopkins University
• Ioannis Ioannidis, Purdue University
• Gunjan Khana, ECE, Purdue University
• Ammar Masood, ECE, Purdue University

Publications

• Security issues in position-based routing protocols

  Po2V: Network Layer Position Verification in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM), Niagara Falls, NY June, 2006. Xiaoxin Wu and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

  A Byzantine Resilient Distributed Position Service. Josh Olsen, David Zage and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Extended Abstract. In The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2006), Philadelphia, PA, June 2006.

  On the Security of Distributed Position Services. In IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2005, Sept. 2005. X. Wu and C. Nita-Rotaru,

  Network Layer Position Verification In MobiHoc 2005, Poster , Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2005. Xiaoxin Wu and Cristina Nita-Rotaru

• Hybrid architectures

  Scalable Routing in Hybrid Cellular and Ad-Hoc Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Taormina / Giardini Naxos, Italy June, 2005. Ioannis Ioannidis, Bogdan Carbunar, Cristina Nita-Rotaru. [PDF] [Extended Technical Report CSD TR# 05-006]

  JANUS: Towards Robust and Malicious Resilient Routing in Hybrid Wireless Networks In Workshop in Wireless Security WiSe 2004, In conjunction with MOBICOM 2004, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 2004 Bogdan Carbunar, Ioanis Ioannidis and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. [PDF]

• Attacks against MAC protocols

  Synchronization Attacks Against 802.11. In Wireless and Mobile Security Workshop, NDSS'05 Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, California, Feb. 2005. Gunjan Khanna, Ammar Masood and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

  An Analysis of Denial-of-Service Attacks Against MAC Protocols in Wireless Networks Tech. Report. Nov. 2004 Gunjan Khanna, Ammar Masood and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

• Multi-Hop Networks

  On the Survivability of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. In IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2005, Sept. 2005. B. Awerbuch, R. Curtmola, D. Holmer, C. Nita-Rotaru and H. Rubens,

  Secure Multi-Hop Infrastructure Access. In Wireless and Mobile Security Workshop, NDSS'05 Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, California, Feb. 2005. Baruch Awerbuch, Reza Curtmola, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens.

  An On-Demand Secure Routing Protocol Resilient to Byzantine Failures. In ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe), Atlanta, Georgia, September 28 2002. Baruch Awerbuch, Dave Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Herbert Rubens. [PS], [PS.GZ], [PDF], [BIB].

Presentations

Conference and Workshop Presentations

On the Survivability of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. Presented in IEEE IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2005, Sept. 2005. Baruch Awerbuch, Reza Curtmola, David Holmer, Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Herbert Rubens. Presented by Reza Curtmola.

On the Security of Distributed Position Services. In IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (\ SecureComm) 2005, Sept. 2005. X. Wu and C. Nita-Rotaru. Presented by Reza Curtmola.

Scalable Routing in Hybrid Cellular and Ad-Hoc Networks. Presented in IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Taormina / Giardini Naxos, Italy June, 2005. Ioanis Ioannidis, Bogdan Carbunar and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Presented by Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

JANUS: Towards Robust and Malicious Resilient Routing in Hybrid Wireless Networks In Workshop in Wireless Security WiSe 2004, In conjunction with MOBICOM 2004, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 2004. Bogdan Carbunar, Ioanis Ioannidis and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Presented by Bogdan Carbunar.

Invited Talks

Survivable Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Presented in Security Seminar at Department of Computer and Information Science, IUPUI, April 2005. Presented by Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

Survivable Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Presented in Security Seminar at Computer and Information Sciences Department, University of Delaware, Oct. 2004. Presented by Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

SWAN: Survivable Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Presented in CWSA Workshop on Wireless Systems and Applications: Wired for Wireless, Purdue University, Nov. 2004. Presented by Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

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