Secure Service Provision for Reliable Server Pooling in MANET

Abstract

The unique characteristics of battlefield mobile ad hoc networks bring severe security challenges to the application of reliable server pooling (rSerPool). This paper uses a novel threshold signature scheme with the features of ad hoc sever selection and dynamic group membership to secure the service provision phase of the rSerPool application in MANET. Our distributed and survivable threshold signature scheme can tolerate single point of failure and Byzantine attacks. Its ad hoc server selection increases service availability and decreases service latency. Our signature scheme provides essential authentication service in rSerPool and can be further used as part of distributed certificate authority in MANET.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA432693

Entities

People

  • Giovanni Di Crescenzo
  • Gonzalo R. Arce
  • Renwei Ge

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Authentication
  • Availability
  • Communication Networks
  • Computer Networks
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Delaware
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Engineering
  • Information Assurance
  • Mesh Networks
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Networks
  • New Jersey
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Computer Vision.