COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CT-ISG: Overlay-Based User Unlocatability and Communication Anonymity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

移动的ad hoc网络（MANNETWORK）在灾难救援等时间关键和任务关键场景中的应用越来越广泛。C公共安全和军事行动。这个项目的目的是调查两个非常重要的，但大多未触及的MANET安全问题：用户不可定位性和通信匿名性。如果不解决这些问题，移动的用户可以很容易地被跟踪，或者他们的通信模式可以很容易地收集用户分析，这将危及用户隐私，使他们容易受到精确定位攻击。在这个项目中，一种新的覆盖为基础的方法OverUCA，匿名网络覆盖组成的节点，匿名通信的底层MANET基板上，将进行调查，以实现用户unlocatability，源匿名，目的地匿名，源-目的地unlinkability，并与现有的路由和MAC协议的完全兼容性。这项研究的成功将对推进在安全关键的商业、民用和军事应用中部署移动自携式网络产生巨大影响。该研究将为对抗精确定位攻击提供一种可行的方法，推动无线安全研究的发展，并引发新的研究活动。 此外，这项研究的结果将通过高质量的会议和期刊出版物以及公开讲座广泛传播。此外，研究成果将纳入两个机构的教育课程。最后，一对少数民族（女）学生将攻读博士学位。因此，该项目将为国家劳动力队伍培训少数民族专业人员。

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are finding growing applications in time-critical and mission-critical scenarios such as disaster rescue?C public safety and military operations. The purpose of this project is to investigate two very important but mostly untouched MANET security issues: user unlocatability and communication anonymity. Without solving them, mobile users can be easily tracked or their communication patterns can be easily gathered for user profiling, which would jeopardize the user privacy and make them vulnerable to pinpoint attacks. In this project, a novel overlay-based approach OverUCA, an anonymous network overlay composed of nodes that anonymously communicate with one another atop the underlying MANET substrate, will be investigated to achieve user unlocatability, source anonymity, destination anonymity, source-destination unlinkability, and full compatibility with existing routing and MAC protocols. The success of this research will have a tremendous impact on advancing the deployments of MANETs in security-critical commercial, civilian, and military applications. This research will provide a viable way to fight against pinpoint attacks, advance the state-of-the-art in the wireless security research, and spark new research activities in securing MANETs. Moreover, the results from this research will be disseminated widely through high-quality conference and journal publications and public talks. Furthermore, the research outcome will be integrated into the educational curricula across two institutions. Finally, a couple of minority (female) students will work for their Ph.D. degrees, and hence this project will train the minority professionals for the national work force.