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

net - nbd：合作研究：upass -一种无线网状网络的抗攻击安全架构方宇光，卢文静快速部署的自组织无线网络，如无线局域网、移动自组织网络和无线传感器网络，特别是这些技术的融合，在过去几年中受到了极大的关注，导致了一种称为无线网状网络（WMN）的新型网络。WMNs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、安全设施监视、救灾、公共安全和国土安全提供了一种有前途的技术。虽然对无线网络的研究已经取得了很多成果，但安全性仍然是一个未开发的领域。本项目研究这个基本问题的目标是开发一个轻量级的安全身份验证和计费体系结构，称为UPASS。UPASS的特点是在传统的基于证书的加密和新兴的基于id的加密的基础上建立了一种新的用户-代理-操作员信任模型。在这种模式下，每个用户都有一个通用通行证，用于实现跨WMN域的无缝漫游，并获得无处不在的安全网络访问。此外，开发了一种无可争议的计费方案，通过基于数字签名和单向哈希链技术的组合构建的轻量级实时微支付协议，促进对网络使用的适当收费。最后，由于WMN被设想为实现无缝高速接入且部署成本极低的最可行的解决方案，因此提出的研究将在WMN技术的商业化中发挥重要作用。因此，它可以对电信行业产生重大影响。该项目受益于少数民族教师和学生的参与，跨越两个机构的本科到博士阶段。

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.