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

合作研究：CT-ISG：移动自组织网络中基于覆盖的用户不可定位性和通信匿名性

• 批准号: 0716450
• 负责人: Yuguang Fang
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0716450&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; CT; ISG; Overlay

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.

移动自组织网络（manet）在时间关键型和任务关键型场景（如灾难救援）中的应用越来越多。C公共安全和军事行动。这个项目的目的是研究两个非常重要但几乎没有触及的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，移动用户很容易被跟踪，或者他们的通信模式很容易被收集来进行用户分析，这将危及用户的隐私，使他们容易受到精确攻击。在这个项目中，将研究一种新的基于覆盖的方法OverUCA，这是一种匿名网络覆盖，由底层MANET基板上匿名彼此通信的节点组成，以实现用户不可定位性、源匿名性、目标匿名性、源-目标不可链接性以及与现有路由和MAC协议的完全兼容性。这项研究的成功将对推进manet在安全关键型商业、民用和军事应用中的部署产生巨大影响。该研究将提供一种可行的方法来对抗精确攻击，推动无线安全研究的最新发展，并引发新的研究活动，以确保manet的安全。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演讲广泛传播。此外，研究成果将被整合到两个机构的教育课程中。最后，一些少数民族（女）学生将攻读博士学位，因此这个项目将为国家劳动力培养少数民族专业人员。