TWC SBE: Medium: Collaborative: Incentive Compatible Wireless Security

TWC SBE：媒介：协作：激励兼容的无线安全

• 批准号: 1314620
• 负责人: Randall Berry
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1314620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TWC; SBE; Medium; Collaborative; Incentive

Wireless connectivity has become the primary way most users access cyberspace. The wide use of the internet on wireless and mobile devices is further encouraged with new services that simultaneously engage and connect a large number of users. As a result, the society at large is quickly getting comfortable with the idea of conducting everyday lives on mobile devices most of which require communicating sensitive and confidential information over the wireless medium. Consequently, secure access to cyberspace necessitates wireless security. Wireless, being an open medium, is more prone to malicious cyber acts as compared to wired connectivity. On the other hand, this medium also presents unique opportunities to provide security guarantees through the interaction of nodes and advanced physical layer techniques. In particular, information theoretic security emerges with design insights that provide guaranteed security against computationally unlimited adversaries. In order to do so, information theory assumes a network of altruistic nodes and looks for fundamental performance limits which usually come with complex interaction and coordination requirements. The premise of this project is that this idealistic set-up can be successfully transformed into a practical one by amalgamating information theory with the theory of incentives in order to provide secure wireless cyber access.Specific research topics being addressed include the development of: (1) mechanisms to incentivize non-altruistic cognitive nodes to participate in information theoretic security protocols; (2) incentive mechanisms for scenarios where all nodes have equal access to spectrum and need confidentiality, even from each other; (3) techniques for providing security to groups of cooperative nodes and the associated trust issues; (4) incentive mechanisms for combating active attacks; (5) strategies for combating colluding adversaries; and (6) mechanisms to ensure that nodes have the incentive to adopt a given security protocol.Broader impacts of this work include: (1) providing secure access to cyberspace via the wireless medium; (2) new design insights for practical security protocols; and (3) amalgamating information theory and game theory via incentive mechanisms. Educational broader impacts include: (1) dissemination of research results in the form of tutorials and short courses; (2) enhancing graduate-student research experiences via a three-university research exchange program; (3) incorporating the research results into graduate and undergraduate communications courses; and (4) recruitment of and mentorship for women in engineering and science.

无线连接已成为大多数用户访问网络空间的主要方式。同时吸引和连接大量用户的新服务进一步鼓励了无线和移动设备上互联网的广泛使用。因此，整个社会很快就接受了在移动设备上进行日常生活的想法，其中大多数移动设备需要通过无线介质传输敏感和机密信息。因此，安全访问网络空间需要无线安全。与有线连接相比，无线作为一种开放媒介，更容易遭受恶意网络行为。另一方面，该介质还提供了通过节点交互和先进物理层技术提供安全保证的独特机会。特别是，信息论安全随着设计见解的出现而出现，为针对计算上无限的对手提供了有保障的安全性。为了做到这一点，信息论假设了一个利他节点的网络，并寻找通常伴随着复杂的交互和协调要求的基本性能限制。该项目的前提是，通过将信息论与激励理论相结合，可以将这种理想化的设置成功转变为实际的设置，以提供安全的无线网络访问。具体的研究主题包括开发：（1）激励非利他认知节点参与信息论安全协议的机制； (2) 针对所有节点都可以平等访问频谱并且需要保密（甚至彼此之间）的情况的激励机制； (3) 为协作节点组提供安全性的技术以及相关的信任问题； （四）打击主动攻击的激励机制； (5) 打击共谋对手的策略； （6）确保节点有动力采用给定安全协议的机制。这项工作的更广泛影响包括：（1）通过无线介质提供对网络空间的安全访问； (2)对实用安全协议的新设计见解； (3)通过激励机制融合信息论和博弈论。更广泛的教育影响包括：（1）以教程和短期课程的形式传播研究成果； (2) 通过三所大学的研究交流计划增强研究生的研究经验； （3）将研究成果纳入研究生和本科生传播学课程； (4) 招聘和指导工程和科学领域的女性。

项目成果

The Cooperation and Competition Between an Added Value MVNO and an MNO Allowing Secondary Access

• DOI: 10.23919/wiopt47501.2019.9144115
• 发表时间: 2019-06
• 期刊: 2019 International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT)
• 作者: Yining Zhu;Haoran Yu;R. Berry