Graduate Research Forum Details
Adaptive Authentication in a Wired MANET: Investigating the Environment of Hybrid Networks
| Author: | Max Skorodinsky |
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| Date: | April 06, 2004 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
Abstract
Recently two authentication schemes have been proposed for mobile ad-hoc networks. The proposed schemes make several assumptions about the MANETs (mobile ad hoc networks) for which they are proposed. The dominating assumption is that nodes in a MANET do not have access to infrastructure-based wired nodes or, when they do, must favor receiving services from them. However, it is not unrealistic to assume that a mobile node may at times come in contact with a wired node or that if communication with a wired node is available, it still may be more cost-effective to get a particular service from ad-hoc nodes.
In this DRP project, I propose to study the wired MANET networking model in order to realize an adaptive authentication protocol which can effectively take advantage of both (a) ad hoc peers capable of performing distributed authentication and (b) server-based, wired authentication services. The project aims to identify parameters in this networking environment which are good indicators of when it is beneficial to switch between the two available services. The goal of the study is to come up with a set of the various parameters that will predict when it is beneficial to switch with a success rate better than 50% (which is equivalent to making a random prediction).