Rail Sensor Testbed Program: Active Agents in Containers for Transport Chain Security: Algorithms

Abstract

This effort focused on improving transportation security by making the objects (e.g. containers) being transported active agents in their own protection. Here, the objects are equipped with sensing and communication capabilities and are able to determine and communicate their sense of security throughout the dynamic transportation chain in a distributed manner. As part of the project, we have developed several data mining algorithms to enable intelligent agents to detect changes from their environment state. We have also designed algorithms to allow agents to communicate with each other for enhancing safety for the group of agents. Research issues of the designed algorithms have been applied to the Transportation Security SensorNet(TSSN) real transportation chain. We have tested all the new algorithms on real sensor data collected from transportation sensor network environments. The results have demonstrated the effectiveness of these algorithms for wireless sensor network security applications and provided useful insights regarding the challenges of the anomaly detection problem for distributed security in challenging environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 14, 2011
Accession Number
ADA539045

Entities

People

  • Brian Quanz
  • Hongliang Fei
  • Jun Huan
  • Ruoyi Jiang

Organizations

  • University of Kansas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Change Detection
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Information Science
  • Kernel Functions
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Topology
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Sensor Networks
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Transportation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • Cyber