CAREER: Practical Scheme Design for Supporting Secure and Resilient Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks

包括无线传感器网络在内的一系列资源受限的无线网络在实现许多可预见的应用和服务方面表现出了巨大的潜力，如医疗保健、搜救行动、照看我的孩子/老化的父母、电网控制和操作、战场监视等。然而，由于其资源受限的设计和部署和使用方式的性质，它们容易受到攻击。这些应用程序的失败可能会造成灾难性的损害或有害的影响，影响公共安全、个人隐私、国土安全、经济和社会。该项目的目标是为资源受限的无线网络开发提供实用解决方案的方法，以支持安全且具有弹性的以数据为中心的应用和服务。该项目将重点解决基本的安全和弹性问题，以及由于资源受限的设备设计和使用网络编码技术带来的复杂情况而产生的挑战性问题。拟议的研究将为过滤虚假数据报告、定位验证以及动态传感器撤销和重新任务提供高效、可证明的安全和弹性解决方案。这个项目产生了直接和重大的影响。开发的解决方案可以作为有效地为以数据为中心的应用程序和服务提供安全和弹性支持的重要基础。综合教育活动是这项建议的另一个重要部分，将使大量各级学生和普通公众接触到这一新知识。因此，该项目以各种有意义的方式造福社会。

A wide range of resource-constrained wireless networks including wireless sensor networks have shown considerable promise in bringing many envisioned applications and services to reality, such as healthcare, search and rescue operations, watch-my-child/aging-parent, power grid control and operations, battlefield surveillance, etc. However, due to the nature of their resource-constrained design and ways of being deployed and used, they are vulnerable to attacks. The failure of these applications may cause catastrophic damage or unwanted impacts that affect public safety, personal privacy, homeland security, the economy and society. The objective of this project is to develop methodologies for providing practical solutions in support of secure and resilient data-centric applications and services for resource-constrained wireless networks. The project will focus on addressing fundamental security and resilience problems and challenging issues due to the resource-constrained device design and the complicated situations brought by the use of network coding techniques. The proposed research will provide efficient, provably secure, and resilient solutions for filtering false data reports, localization verification, and dynamic sensor revoking and re-tasking. This project has immediate and significant impacts. The developed solutions can serve as an important foundation to effectively provide secure and resilient support for data-centric applications and services. Integrated educational activities are another important part of this proposal and will expose a large number of students at various levels and the general public to this new knowledge. Accordingly, this project benefits society in a variety of meaningful ways.