Infrastructure for Securing Dynamic Tactical MANETs Research and Education
Abstract
Wireless networks play an increasingly crucial role in supporting tactical applications. Significant research has conducted to assure secure communication and trustworthy data delivery to enable proper response to scenarios that threaten the availability of wireless communications. This is especially critical for Army as this force consists of heterogeneous nodes that operate in a complex wireless environment. In such a highly dynamic, network centric environment, secure communication and trustworthy data delivery remain challenging because mobile nodes operate in the absence of supporting infrastructure, requiring nodes to collaborate in order to provide secure data exchange in the mission critical applications. Existing research has made great advancement in theoretic foundations and protocol design. Few efforts have shown the applicability and scalability of the theoretic-based re- search to real-world scenarios. This proposal aims to build an infrastructure that measures, tests, and evaluates various practical parameters when validating existing and new security- oriented research problems in mission-critical tasks under real environments. It targets to bridge the gap between theoretic study and system implementation and further provide valuable performance evaluation feedback to enhance the theoretic study in Armys future wireless systems. More specifically, the proposed infrastructure will allow us to address the following three key challenges limiting current small-scale wireless security prototypes in lab environments: (1) partitioning the communication and computation among the devices to balance cost, accuracy, energy consumption and resource constraints, (2) providing a general framework to detect and defend multiple threats in tactical MANETs, and (3) integrating research into education to involve students participating in red team evaluation and competition, which will benefit both research and curriculum development. The abstract is publicly releasable.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 15, 2018
- Source ID
- W911NF1710178
Entities
People
- Yingying Chen
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- United States Army