Protection of an intrusion detection engine with watermarking in ad hoc networks

Mobile ad hoc networks have received great attention in recent years, mainly due to the evolution of wireless networking and mobile computing hardware. Nevertheless, many inherent vulnerabilities exist in mobile ad hoc networks and their applications that affect the security of wireless transactions. As intrusion prevention mechanisms, such as encryption and authentication, are not sufficient we need a second line of defense, Intrusion Detection. In this pa-per we present an intrusion detection engine based on neural networks and a protection method based on watermarking techniques. In particular, we exploit information visualization and machine learning techniques in order to achieve intrusion detection and we authenticate the maps produced by the application of the intelligent techniques using a novel combined watermarking embedding method. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated under different traffic conditions, mobility patterns and visualization metrics

Infrastructure for Distributed Applications in Ad Hoc Networks of Small Mobile Wireless Devices

Mobile wireless computing devices such as cellphones, pagers, personal digital assistants, pocket PCs, and tablet computers are all potential platforms for participating in small group, wireless, many-to-many distributed applications. The networking technology needed to support such applications is readily available. However, almost all existing middleware infrastructure for distributed applications was designed for central servers and wired connections. The Anhinga Infrastructure described here runs entirely on the wireless mobile devices and so does not require any central server support. The Anhinga Infrastructure provides a message broadcast ad hoc networking protocol and a distributed computing platform based on lightweight versions of Java, Jini Network Technology, and tuple spaces

Resource Aware Application for Mobile Device In An Ad Hoc Wireless Network Environment

Ad hoc wireless networks can be applied in a collaborative computing in which the requirements of a temporary communication infrastructure for quick communication with minimal configuration between a group of people in a conference or gathering. The main purpose of this research is to develop an application that allows mobile nodes in a collaborative environment to share files among nodes. For this project, the application will be implemented on nodes in an ad hoc wireless network that have a strong incentive to collaborate and share resources. This paper presents the results of our preliminary study which are based on the previous research. It is divided into five sections where in the first section is an introduction of ad-hoc wireless network, then in the next section is regarding motivation of doing research in this area. In section four and five, the paragraphs focused on the evaluation for Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and related works respectively

Routing Protocols Evaluation Review in Simple and Cloud Environment

In the field of information technology there are many computer jargons like cloud computing Ad-hoc, Software Define Network (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV) , and virtual machine (VM), etc. This review paper is basically a blend of brief study and review of many routing protocols used for Mobile ad hoc Networks (MANET) in the cloud as well as in simple network environment i.e. without cloud computing. This paper would also suggest the different challenges that are facing in cloud computing. The description of the different network simulators used in networking like NS2 tool, Opnet and Cisco packet tracer. The different metrics that are used in the networking are briefly explained. MANET is a group of wireless nodes that do not need centralized controlling entity as it rapidly moveschanges and forms networks to the nearest networking nodes

From MANET to people-centric networking: Milestones and open research challenges

In this paper, we discuss the state of the art of (mobile) multi-hop ad hoc networking with the aim to present the current status of the research activities and identify the consolidated research areas, with limited research opportunities, and the hot and emerging research areas for which further research is required. We start by briefly discussing the MANET paradigm, and why the research on MANET protocols is now a cold research topic. Then we analyze the active research areas. Specifically, after discussing the wireless-network technologies, we analyze four successful ad hoc networking paradigms, mesh networks, opportunistic networks, vehicular networks, and sensor networks that emerged from the MANET world. We also present an emerging research direction in the multi-hop ad hoc networking field: people centric networking, triggered by the increasing penetration of the smartphones in everyday life, which is generating a people-centric revolution in computing and communications

A Termination Detection Protocol for Use in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

As computing devices become smaller and wireless networking technologies improve, the popularity of mobile computing continues to rise. In today\u27s business world, many consider devices such as cell phones, PDAs, and laptops as essential tools. As these and other devices become increasingly independent of the wired infrastructure, new kinds of applications that assume an ad hoc network infrastructure will need to be deployed. Such a setting poses new challenges for the software developer, e.g., the lack of an established network topology, bandwidth limitations, and frequent disconnections. In this paper, we begin to explore design strategies for developing applications over ad hoc networks. The study of termination detection in diffusing computations, along with the formulation of an algorithmic solution amenable to usage in mobile ad joc networks, gives us the opportunity to bring to light several important software engineering concerns and design strategies one might employ in a mobile setting. We view this effort as a first step towards creating a repertoire of commonly used design solutions for frequently encountered problems in the development of applications over mobile ad hoc networks

ANALIZA I WYBÓR PROTOKOŁÓW ROUTINGU W SIECIACH BEZPRZEWODOWYCH AD-HOC W OPARCIU O SIECI NEURONOWE

In the past few years, we have seen a rapid expansion in the field of mobile computing due to the proliferation of inexpensive, widely available wireless devices. However, current devices, applications and protocols are solely focused on cellular or wireless local area networks (WLANs), not taking into account the great potential offered by ad hoc networking. Ad hoc networks are wireless mobile networks that can operate without infrastructure and without centralized network management. In such networks, the wireless mobile nodes may dynamically enter the network as well as leave the network. Mobility and dynamic topology are the main characteristics of ad hoc networks. In the last years, the hundreds of new routing protocols were designed, that are used for the various scenarios of this design space. The routing features in wireless ad hoc networks are described. The corresponding routing protocols are reviewed. The paper proposes a method for selecting the preferred protocol wireless networks using the mathematical tools of neural networks.Obecnie intensywnie rozwija się kierunek naukowy w zakresie budowy sieci telekomunikacyjnych o zmiennej topologii z wykorzystaniem urządzeń bezprzewodowych. Jednak istniejące urządzenia i protokoły koncentrują się wyłącznie na komórkowe lub bezprzewodowe lokalne sieci (WLAN), niezależnie od potencjału sieci Ad-Hoc. Sieci Ad-Hoc są to sieci bezprzewodowe, które mogą pracować bez infrastruktury i bez scentralizowanego zarządzania siecią. W takich sieciach węzły mogą dynamicznie poruszać się po sieci. Mobilność oraz dynamiczna topologia to kluczowe cechy sieci Ad-Hoc. W ostatnich latach opracowano wiele protokołów dla sieci Ad-Hoc zaprojektowanych dla różnych scenariuszy organizacji routingu. Opisano funkcje routingu w sieciach bezprzewodowych Ad-Hoc i przedstawiono przegląd odpowiednich protokołów routingu. W artykule zaproponowano metodę wyboru protokołu sieci bezprzewodowej z wykorzystaniem matematycznego aparatu sieci neuronowych

Demo: Linux Goes Apple Picking: Cross-Platform Ad hoc Communication with Apple Wireless Direct Link

Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) is a proprietary and undocumented wireless ad hoc protocol that Apple introduced around 2014 and which is the base for applications such as AirDrop and AirPlay. We have reverse engineered the protocol and explain its frame format and operation in our MobiCom '18 paper "One Billion Apples' Secret Sauce: Recipe of the Apple Wireless Direct Link Ad hoc Protocol." AWDL builds on the IEEE 802.11 standard and implements election, synchronization, and channel hopping mechanisms on top of it. Furthermore, AWDL features an IPv6-based data path which enables direct communication. To validate our own work, we implement a working prototype of AWDL on Linux-based systems. Our implementation is written in C, runs in userspace, and makes use of Linux's Netlink API for interactions with the system's networking stack and the pcap library for frame injection and reception. In our demonstrator, we show how our Linux system synchronizes to an existing AWDL cluster or takes over the master role itself. Furthermore, it can receive data frames from and send them to a MacBook or iPhone via AWDL. We demonstrate the data exchange via ICMPv6 echo request and replies as well as sending and receiving data over a TCP connection.Comment: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '18

Spontaneous ad hoc mobile cloud computing network

Cloud computing helps users and companies to share computing resources instead of having local servers or personal devices to handle the applications. Smart devices are becoming one of the main information processing devices. Their computing features are reaching levels that let them create a mobile cloud computing network. But sometimes they are not able to create it and collaborate actively in the cloud because it is difficult for them to build easily a spontaneous network and configure its parameters. For this reason, in this paper, we are going to present the design and deployment of a spontaneous ad hoc mobile cloud computing network. In order to perform it, we have developed a trusted algorithm that is able to manage the activity of the nodes when they join and leave the network. The paper shows the network procedures and classes that have been designed. Our simulation results using Castalia show that our proposal presents a good efficiency and network performance even by using high number of nodes.Lacuesta, R.; Lloret, J.; Sendra, S.; Peñalver Herrero, ML. (2014). Spontaneous ad hoc mobile cloud computing network. Scientific World Journal. 2014:1-19. doi:10.1155/2014/232419S1192014Rodrigues, J. J. P. C., Zhou, L., Mendes, L. D. P., Lin, K., & Lloret, J. (2012). Distributed media-aware flow scheduling in cloud computing environment. Computer Communications, 35(15), 1819-1827. doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2012.03.004Feeney, L. M., Ahlgren, B., & Westerlund, A. (2001). Spontaneous networking: an application oriented approach to ad hoc networking. IEEE Communications Magazine, 39(6), 176-181. doi:10.1109/35.925687Fernando, N., Loke, S. W., & Rahayu, W. (2013). Mobile cloud computing: A survey. Future Generation Computer Systems, 29(1), 84-106. doi:10.1016/j.future.2012.05.023Lacuesta, R., Lloret, J., Garcia, M., & Peñalver, L. (2013). A Secure Protocol for Spontaneous Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Creation. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 24(4), 629-641. doi:10.1109/tpds.2012.168Lacuesta, R., Lloret, J., Garcia, M., & Peñalver, L. (2011). Two secure and energy-saving spontaneous ad-hoc protocol for wireless mesh client networks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 34(2), 492-505. doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2010.03.024Lacuesta, R., Lloret, J., Garcia, M., & Peñalver, L. (2010). A Spontaneous Ad Hoc Network to Share WWW Access. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2010(1). doi:10.1155/2010/232083Lacuesta, R., Palacios-Navarro, G., Cetina, C., Peñalver, L., & Lloret, J. (2012). Internet of things: where to be is to trust. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2012(1). doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2012-203Capkun, S., Buttyan, L., & Hubaux, J. (2003). Self-organized public-key management for mobile ad hoc networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2(1), 52-64. doi:10.1109/tmc.2003.1195151Goodman, J., & Chandrakasan, A. (2000). An Energy Efficient Reconfigurable Public-Key Cryptography Processor Architecture. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 175-190. doi:10.1007/3-540-44499-8_13Mayrhofer, R., Ortner, F., Ferscha, A., & Hechinger, M. (2003). Securing Passive Objects in Mobile Ad-Hoc Peer-to-Peer Networks. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 85(3), 105-121. doi:10.1016/s1571-0661(04)80687-xMendes, L. D. P., Rodrigues, J. J. P. C., Lloret, J., & Sendra, S. (2014). Cross-Layer Dynamic Admission Control for Cloud-Based Multimedia Sensor Networks. IEEE Systems Journal, 8(1), 235-246. doi:10.1109/jsyst.2013.2260653Dutta, R., & B, A. (2014). Protection of data in unsecured public cloud environment with open, vulnerable networks using threshold-based secret sharing. Network Protocols and Algorithms, 6(1), 58. doi:10.5296/npa.v6i1.486

Context Aware Service Oriented Computing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

These days we witness a major shift towards small, mobile devices, capable of wireless communication. Their communication capabilities enable them to form mobile ad hoc networks and share resources and capabilities. Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new emerging paradigm for distributed computing that has evolved from object-oriented and component-oriented computing to enable applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. Services are autonomous computational elements that can be described, published, discovered, and orchestrated for the purpose of developing applications. The application of the SOC model to mobile devices provides a loosely coupled model for distributed processing in a resource-poor and highly dynamic environment. Cooperation in a mobile ad hoc environment depends on the fundamental capability of hosts to communicate with each other. Peer-to-peer interactions among hosts within communication range allow such interactions but limit the scope of interactions to a local region. Routing algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks extend the scope of interactions to cover all hosts transitively connected over multi-hop routes. Additional contextual information, e.g., knowledge about the movement of hosts in physical space, can help extend the boundaries of interactions beyond the limits of an island of connectivity. To help separate concerns specific to different layers, a coordination model between the routing layer and the SOC layer provides abstractions that mask the details characteristic to the network layer from the distributed computing semantics above. This thesis explores some of the opportunities and challenges raised by applying the SOC paradigm to mobile computing in ad hoc networks. It investigates the implications of disconnections on service advertising and discovery mechanisms. It addresses issues related to code migration in addition to physical host movement. It also investigates some of the security concerns in ad hoc networking service provision. It presents a novel routing algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks and a novel coordination model that addresses space and time explicitly