Adaptive Security for Multi-layer Ad-hoc Networks
Jiejun Kong, Haiyun Luo, Kaixin Xu, Daniel Lihui Gu, Mário Gerla, Songwu Lu · 2002
Secure communication is critical in military environments where the network infrastructure is vulnerable to various attacks and compromises. A conventional centralized solution breaks down when the security servers are destroyed by the enemies. In this paper we design and evaluate a security framework for multi-layer ad-hoc wireless networks with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In battlefields, the framework adapts to the contingent damages on the network infrastructure. Depending on the availability of the network infrastructure, our design is composed of two modes. In infrastructure mode, security services, specifically the authentication services, are implemented on