A secure wireless agent-based testbed
Gustave W. Anderson, Leonardo F. Urbano, Gaurav Naik, David Dorsey, A. Mroczkowski, Donovan Artz, Nicholas Morizio, Andrew Burnheimer, K. Malfetone, Daniel Lapadat, Evan A. Sultanik, S. Garcia, Maxim D. Peysakhov, William Clement Regli, Moshe Kam · 2004
Secure mobile wireless ad-hoc networks are frequently described in the technical literature as highly-desired and feasible. However only few stable and scalable physical realizations of such MANETs were actually reported. Here, we describe SWAT (a secure wireless agent-based testbed), a physical network of handheld and stationary computing nodes that provide a practical industrial-strength MANET based on IEEE standard 802.11b and agent technology. The system, using HP iPAQ units and tablet PCs, implements secure group-based applications and allows for real-time user revocation. It integrates algorithms and techniques from several proposed software libraries, including CLIQUES, spread and secure spread, SEM, IPSec, and EMAA.