NeTS-NBD: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UPASS-An Attack Resilient Security Architecture for Wireless Mesh Networks

NetTS-NBD：合作研究：UPASS-一种用于无线网状网络的攻击弹性安全体系结构奖06268810626601方宇光和娄文静快速部署的自组织无线网络，如无线局域网，移动的ad hoc网络和无线传感器网络，特别是这些技术的融合，在过去的几年中受到了极大的关注，导致了一种新型的网络称为无线网状网络（WMN）。无线网状网已成为未来无线蜂窝技术的竞争对手，并为无处不在的高速网络接入，安全设施监控，救灾，公共安全和国土安全提供了一种有前途的技术。虽然已经在WMN中进行了许多研究工作，但安全性仍然是一个未开发的领域。这个项目研究这个基本问题，目标是开发一个轻量级的安全认证和计费架构，称为UPASS。UPASS的特点是建立在传统的基于证书的密码学和新兴的基于ID的密码学基础上的一种新的用户-代理-操作员信任模型。在该模型下，每个用户都拥有一个通用的通行证，用于实现跨WMN域的无缝漫游，获得无处不在的安全网络接入。此外，一个不可否认的稳定的计费方案，以促进适当的收费网络使用，通过一个轻量级的实时小额支付协议，建立在数字签名和单向哈希链技术的组合。最后，由于WMN已被设想为最可行的解决方案，以实现无缝的高速接入与显着低的部署成本，拟议的研究将发挥重要作用，在WMN技术的商业化。因此，它可能对电信行业产生重大影响。该项目受益于两个机构的少数民族教师和学生从本科到博士水平的参与。

NeTS-NBD: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UPASS-An Attack Resilient Security Architecture for Wireless Mesh NetworksAward 0626881 0626601Yuguang Fang and Wenjing LouRapidly-deployable self-organizing wireless networks such as wireless LANs, mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks, particularly the convergence of such technologies, have received tremendous attention in the last few years, leading to a new type of network called wireless mesh network (WMN). WMNs have been posed as the competitive rival to the future wireless cellular technologies and provide a promising technology for ubiquitous high-speed network access, secure facility surveillance, disaster relief, public safety and homeland security. While many research efforts in WMNs have been made, security is still an untapped area. This project investigates this fundamental issue with the goal to develop a light-weight secure authentication and billing architecture, termed UPASS. UPASS features a novel user-broker-operator trust model built upon conventional certificate-based cryptography and emerging ID-based cryptography. Under this model, each user is furnished with a universal pass used to realize seamless roaming across WMN domains and gain ubiquitous secure network access. Moreover, an incontestable billing scheme is developed to facilitate the proper charging for the network usage through a lightweight real-time micropayment protocol built upon the combination of digital signature and one-way hash-chain techniques. Finally, since WMNs have been envisioned to be the most viable solutions to achieving seamless high-speed access with significantly low deployment cost, the proposed research will play a significant role in the commercialization of WMN technologies. Hence, it can have a significant impact on the telecommunications industries. The project benefits from the participation of minority faculty and students spanning undergraduate to doctoral levels across two institutions.