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

NETS-NBD：协作研究：UPASS-一种适用于无线Mesh网络的抗攻击安全体系结构奖0626881 0626601余光方和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，在过去几年受到了极大的关注，导致了一种新型的网络，称为无线Mesh网络(WMN)。无线网状网被认为是未来无线蜂窝技术的竞争对手，它为泛在高速网络接入、安全设施监控、救灾、公共安全和国土安全提供了一种很有前途的技术。虽然在无线网状网方面已经做出了许多研究努力，但安全仍然是一个尚未开发的领域。该项目研究这一基本问题，目的是开发一种称为UPASS的轻量级安全身份验证和计费体系结构。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身份的密码学的基础上的新型用户-经纪人-运营商信任模型。在该模型下，为每个用户提供了一张通用通行证，用于实现跨WMN域的无缝漫游，获得无所不在的安全网络接入。此外，通过结合数字签名和单向哈希链技术的轻量级实时微支付协议，开发了一种不可否认的计费方案，以便于对网络使用进行适当的计费。最后，由于无线网状网被认为是以极低的部署成本实现无缝高速接入的最可行的解决方案，因此拟议的研究将在WMN技术的商业化方面发挥重要作用。因此，它可以对电信行业产生重大影响。该项目受益于两个机构的少数民族教职员工和学生的参与，他们的水平从本科生到博士生。

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.