Abstract

This paper proposes and evaluates strategies to build reliable and secure wireless ad hoc networks. Our contribution is based on the notion of inner-circle consistency, where local node interaction is used to neutralize errors/attacks at the source, both preventing errors/attacks from propagating in the network and improving the fidelity of the propagated information. We achieve this goal by combining statistical (a proposed fault-tolerant cluster algorithm) and security (threshold cryptography) techniques with application-aware checks to exploit the data/computation that is partially and naturally replicated in wireless applications. We have prototyped an inner-circle framework with the ns-2 network simulator, and we use it to demonstrate the idea of inner-circle consistency in two significant wireless scenarios: (1) the neutralization of black hole attacks in AODV networks and (2) the neutralization of sensor errors in a target detection/localization application executed over a wireless sensor network.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages518-527
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: Jun 28 2005Jul 1 2005

Other

Other2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period6/28/057/1/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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