SMANET: Secure Mobile Ad hoc Network Project

Goal:

The goal of this project is to investigate techniques to enhance the security of a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET).  This techniques may include:

• Signatures or certificates to verify the authenticity of routing updates
• Firewalls on each MANET node to block attacks
• Intrusion detection systems (IDS) to detect attacks
• Key distribution systems or certificate authorities

Current Focus:

The current focus of the project is to explore the use of signatures to verify the authenticity of routing updates in the Ad hoc On demand Distance Vector (AODV) protocol.  The use of signatures has been proposed by Manel Guerrero-Zapata in his Secure AODV (SAODV) draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Sponsors:

This project is currently supported by a grant from NISSC.

Team:

• C. Edward Chow, Principal Investigator

• Paul J. Fong, Graduate Student

Status:

• doc/
• src/
• SMANET Project

Related Resources:

• Security Related Research Projects at the UCCS Network Research lab.
• Snort
• Source code for the NIST implementation of AODV
• Other literatures found in survey and our NISSC proposal writing.