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EVEREST IST - 2002 - 00185 : D23 : final report
Deliverable pĂșblic del projecte europeu EVERESTThis deliverable constitutes the final report of the project IST-2002-001858 EVEREST. After its successful completion, the project presents this document that firstly summarizes the context, goal and the approach objective of the project. Then it presents a concise summary of the major goals and results, as well as highlights the most valuable lessons derived form the project work. A list of deliverables and publications is included in the annex.Postprint (published version
On the Delay-Throughput Tradeoff in Distributed Wireless Networks
This paper deals with the delay-throughput analysis of a single-hop wireless
network with transmitter/receiver pairs. All channels are assumed to be
block Rayleigh fading with shadowing, described by parameters
, where denotes the probability of shadowing and
represents the average cross-link gains. The analysis relies on the
distributed on-off power allocation strategy (i.e., links with a direct channel
gain above a certain threshold transmit at full power and the rest remain
silent) for the deterministic and stochastic packet arrival processes. It is
also assumed that each transmitter has a buffer size of one packet and dropping
occurs once a packet arrives in the buffer while the previous packet has not
been served. In the first part of the paper, we define a new notion of
performance in the network, called effective throughput, which captures the
effect of arrival process in the network throughput, and maximize it for
different cases of packet arrival process. It is proved that the effective
throughput of the network asymptotically scales as , with , regardless of
the packet arrival process. In the second part of the paper, we present the
delay characteristics of the underlying network in terms of the packet dropping
probability. We derive the sufficient conditions in the asymptotic case of such that the packet dropping probability tend to zero, while
achieving the maximum effective throughput of the network. Finally, we study
the trade-off between the effective throughput, delay, and packet dropping
probability of the network for different packet arrival processes.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (34 pages
Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey
This book chapter identifies various security threats in wireless mesh
network (WMN). Keeping in mind the critical requirement of security and user
privacy in WMNs, this chapter provides a comprehensive overview of various
possible attacks on different layers of the communication protocol stack for
WMNs and their corresponding defense mechanisms. First, it identifies the
security vulnerabilities in the physical, link, network, transport, application
layers. Furthermore, various possible attacks on the key management protocols,
user authentication and access control protocols, and user privacy preservation
protocols are presented. After enumerating various possible attacks, the
chapter provides a detailed discussion on various existing security mechanisms
and protocols to defend against and wherever possible prevent the possible
attacks. Comparative analyses are also presented on the security schemes with
regards to the cryptographic schemes used, key management strategies deployed,
use of any trusted third party, computation and communication overhead involved
etc. The chapter then presents a brief discussion on various trust management
approaches for WMNs since trust and reputation-based schemes are increasingly
becoming popular for enforcing security in wireless networks. A number of open
problems in security and privacy issues for WMNs are subsequently discussed
before the chapter is finally concluded.Comment: 62 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables. This chapter is an extension of the
author's previous submission in arXiv submission: arXiv:1102.1226. There are
some text overlaps with the previous submissio
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