| Geo-Based Inter-Domain Routing (GIDR) Protocol for MANETS |
Oct-2009 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Mario Gerla; Abhishek Tiwari; Biao Zhou; Konglin Zhu; You Lu; Anurag Ganguli; Bao-hong Shen; David Krzysiak; UTOPIA COMPRESSION CORP LOS ANGELES CA
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 | Inter-domain routing for MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) draws increasing attention because of military and vehicular applications. The existing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto inter-domain routing protocol for the Internet. But BGP is not applicable to MANETs because the BGP design is based on a static Internet which does not support dynamic discovery of members, and cannot scale to mobile, dynamic topology environments. The proposed geo-based inter-domain ... |
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| Delay Tolerant Mobility Aware Routing/Mobility Dissemination Protocol for the Airborne Network |
Oct-2009 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Mario Gerla; Abhishek Tiwari; Anurag Ganguli; David Krzysiak; Kevin C Lee; Adam Piechowicz; UTOPIA COMPRESSION CORP LOS ANGELES CA
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| Despite airborne network (AN) topology design and careful planning of AN trajectories, unexpected disruptions (from hardware failures to changes in mission requirements and hostile attacks) may cause nodes not to connect to one another directly or indirectly either because they are out of one another's range or because nodes do not meet one another according to their preplanned trajectories. Since an end-to-end path within the AN is not always guaranteed, ... |
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| Cube-Type Algebraic Attacks on Wireless Encryption Protocols |
Sep-2009 |
99 pages |
| Authors:
Nikolaos Petrakos; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| In this study, we investigated an algebraic-type attack, known as the cube attack, against wireless networks. We implemented the cube attack in a wireless system, namely Bluetooth. We formally modeled the encryption function of E0 Bluetooth key generator and automated the process of the cube attack on E0 of the factorization process (preprocessing phase). In this phase, an attacker finds as many maxterms (a term of the encryption function such ... |
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| Analysis of a Man-in-the-Middle Attack on the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Protocol |
Sep-2009 |
74 pages |
| Authors:
Aaron C Geary; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The ability to distribute cryptographic keys securely has been a challenge for centuries. The Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol was the first practical solution to the key exchange dilemma. The Diffie-Hellman protocol allows two parties to exchange a secret key over unsecured communication channels without meeting in advance. The secret key can then be used in a symmetric encryption application, and the two parties can communicate securely. However, if the key ... |
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| Design Considerations for a Computationally-Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Passive RFID Tags |
Sep-2009 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
John H Frushour; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Passive RFID tags are attractive for their low cost, small footprint, and ability to function without batteries. The lack of onboard power, however, limits the complexity of operations that can be performed by the tags? integrated circuits, and this limitation prevents the tags from being able to perform typical functions required to support e-authentication. This thesis quantifies the delta between the power that would be required to perform MAC-based authentication, ... |
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| Routing Protocols to Minimize the Number of Route Disconnections for Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks |
Sep-2009 |
136 pages |
| Authors:
Natarajan Meghanathan; JACKSON STATE UNIV MS DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| The high-level contribution of this paper is the design and development of a node-disjoint multi-path extension for the Location Prediction Based Routing protocol (referred to as LPBR-M). LPBR-M reduces the number of global broadcast multi-path route discoveries. Simulations have been conducted with both flooding and DMEF as the broadcast route discovery strategies. We compared the performance of LPBR-M with that of the link-disjoint path based AODM and the node-disjoint path ... |
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| Optimized Coding and Protocols for FSO Communications Links |
15-Jun-2009 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Cenk Kose; Thomas Halford; Sungill Kim; Metin Bayram; TRELLISWARE TECHNOLOGIES INC SAN DIEGO CA
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| The present report summarizes the Phase 1 Option work of TrellisWare Technologies, Inc. (TrellisWare) in the development of an optimized coded protocol to combat the deep fades caused by scintillation in free-space optical (FSO) communication links. For Phase-I, TrellisWare proposed the joint use of coding and protocol (coded-protocol) to mitigate the scintillation induced fading on FSO communication links. The proposed coded-protocol would adapt the code-rate to match prevalent channel conditions ... |
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| Towards Trust-based Cognitive Networks: A Survey of Trust Management for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks |
Jun-2009 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Ananthram Swami; Jin-Hee Cho; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD COMPUTATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES DIRECTORATE
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| Managing trust in a distributed Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is challenging when collaboration or cooperation is critical to achieving mission and system goals such as reliability, availability, scalability, or reconfigurability. In defining trust and managing trust in a military MANET, we must consider the interactions between the composite cognitive, social, information and communication networks, and take into account the severe resource constraints (e.g., computing power, energy, bandwidth, time), and ... |
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| Exploring the Plausibility of a National Multi-Agency Communications System for the Homeland Security Community: A Southeast Ohio Half-Duplex Voice Over IP Case Study |
Mar-2009 |
93 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher S Smith; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Since 9-11, it has become apparent that the Homeland Security Community consists of more than first responders, and is, in essence, a Megacommunity composed of three components: government, business, and nonprofit organizations. Unfortunately, this reality has not translated into a common communications strategy, which presently focuses on radios for first responders in an emergency. Many reasons exist for not addressing this gap, including the myths that it is impossible or ... |
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| Testbed Implementation of Loop-Free Soft Handoff in Wireless Battlefield Networks |
Dec-2008 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Ibrahim Hoekelek; Selcuk Cevher; Mariusz A Fecko; Provin Gurung; Sunil Samtani; Zhensbeng Zhang; Aristides Staikos; Jeffrey Bowcock; TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES INC PISCATAWAY NJ
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| A fundamental challenge in wireless mobile battlefield networks (WMBNs) is frequent occurrence of wireless link congestion and failures due to blockage, mobility, interference, etc. In case of a link or node failure, the end-to-end session will be disrupted until the underlying routing protocol converges to its new path. We propose an innovative distributed architecture for a seamless multi-layer soft handoff protocol in WMBNs to provide the sub-second convergence in case ... |
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| Self-Adaptive Dissemination of Critical Data in Dynamic Wireless Networks |
Dec-2008 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Jose-Luis Sagripanti; David Dorsey; Bjorn J Carandang; Moshe Kam; Chris Gaughan; DREXEL UNIV PHILADELPHIA PA
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| The distribution of data in large-scale dynamic wireless networks presents a difficult problem for network designers due to node mobility, unreliable links, and traffic congestion. In this work, we propose a framework for adaptive data dissemination protocols suitable for distributing data in large-scale dynamic networks without a central controlling entity. The framework consists of cooperating mobile agents and a reinforcement-learning component with value function approximation. A component for agent coordination ... |
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| Supporting Safe Content-Inspection of Web Traffic |
01-Sep-2008 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Partha Pal; Michael Atighetchi; BBN TECHNOLOGIES CAMBRIDGE MA
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| Interception of software interaction for the purpose of introducing additional functionality or alternative behavior is a well-known software engineering technique that has been used successfully for various reasons, including security. Software wrappers, firewalls, Web proxies, and a number of middleware constructs all depend on interception to achieve their respective security, fault tolerance, interoperability, or load balancing objectives. Web proxies, as used by organizations to monitor and secure Web traffic into ... |
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| Secure and Robust Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks |
20-Jul-2008 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Donggang Liu; TEXAS UNIV AT ARLINGTON OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS
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| In many applications, sensor nodes are organized into clusters to perform efficient in-network processing (e.g., data aggregation), build scalable routing protocols, facilitate data queries, and implement efficient and scalable broadcast protocol. It is highly necessary to guarantee the trustworthiness and resilience of sensor network operations, especially when the failure of doing so could lead to catastrophic consequences. This project has made significant contributions to construct clusters securely and offered solutions ... |
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| Collaborative Data Objects Enhanced Chat in Support of Net-Centric Collaboration |
01-Jun-2008 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Dan Winkowski; Michael Krutsch; MITRE CORP HAMPTON VA
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| Today, chat is being used to form collaborative communities, within and across disparate groups, (e.g., DoD, Allies, Coalition Partners, State and Local Governments, Non-Governmental Organizations, Private Voluntary Organizations) working on shared purposes towards common goals. Collaborative Data Objects (CDOs) is a new, open, standards track, technology that brings chat into a net-centric world and improves the value of this light weight ubiquitous tool. CDOs are a method of adding tailored ... |
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| Priority Based Buffering over Multiple Lossy Links Using TCP Aware Link Layer Buffering |
27 MAR 2008 |
83 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin J. Savidge; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| Wireless military information systems require high reliability, which is difficult to achieve in adverse conditions. To provide high reliability one must overcome packet loss across multiple wireless hops. Buffering packets in a lossy environment is well explored; however, the ability to selectively buffer TCP traffic across multiple lossy links is a new area of research. This document seeks to explore the delivery of high priority traffic in a lossy environment ... |
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| Internet Protocol (IP): The Key to Joint Communications |
19-Feb-2008 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
W W Manning; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| Internet Protocol-based systems are the answer to the continuing demands for instant communication and information sharing of today's joint warfighting challenges. The IP systems that have been implemented and are in use in Iraq and Afghanistan are performing exceptionally well. Although warfighters have previously accomplished their missions without IP technology, the implementation of IP-based systems will enhance capabilities, is cost efficient, and will enable a networked force. Robert Ackerman, SIGNAL ... |
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| Alleviating Bandwidth Constraints by Implementing Quality of Service on Teleport Site Connections |
19-Feb-2008 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
A O Phillips; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| In the deployed environment, the Marine Corps' data network operates with a handicap. It has to support a growing number of users and applications with a limited amount of bandwidth. To illustrate this handicap, most users have high speed broadband Internet access at home that measures about 5 (or more) megabits per second (Mbps) to support a household of about four users. Meanwhile, the Marine Corps supports 150 warfighters with ... |
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| Mesh Networks within A Distributed Operations Framework Utilizing IP Based Radios |
SEP 2007 |
117 pages |
| Authors:
Randall J. Simmons; Christopher C. Curran; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF INFORMATIONAL SCIENCES
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| Currently the USMC employs numerous radio sets to establish a tactical network in order to communicate in the Area of Operations. These radio sets include AN/PRC-150(C) HF, SINCGARS VHF, & AN/ARC-210 UHF radios. In every instance, these sets require individualized training and calibration to ensure that they all operate when needed. Further, these independent systems often have difficulty cross-communicating, as a result of incorrect time hacks, outdated fills, or improper ... |
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| Multiple Assets Position Determination in a 3-Dimensional Environment Using the APRS Protocol |
SEP 2007 |
119 pages |
| Authors:
Evangelos K. Fourtzitzis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Increased situational awareness in the battlefield is one of the main objectives in today's operations and applies to all levels of commands. Several attempts have been made to use tracking devices for detecting and continuously updating the positional data of friendly assets on a map. Current applications like Falcon View fulfill their objective in presenting the location of targets of interest on a digital mapping environment. Falcon View is a ... |
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| Experimentation and Evaluation of IPV6 Secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol |
SEP 2007 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Marcin Pohl; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The DoD is expected to transition to IPv6 networking within the next few years. The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol is responsible for autoconfiguration and neighbor address resolution which establishes hosts on the network and allows communication between hosts. IPsec, the default security mechanism for IPv6, does not allow for automatic protection of the autoconfiguration process. Thus, the Secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol (SeND) was created. SeND uses Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA) ... |
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| Spiraling Information Demands -- The Way Ahead with IPv6 |
01-Jul-2007 |
3 pages |
| Authors:
Kristopher L Strance; ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (NETWORKS AND INFORMATION INTEGRATION) ARLINGTON VA
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| The achievement of Net-Centric Operations and Warfare (NCOW), envisioned as the Global Information Grid (GIG) of inter-networked sensors, platforms, facilities, people, and information, depends on effective implementation of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in concert with other aspects of the GIG architecture. IIPv6 is the next-generation network layer protocol for the Internet and the DoD GIG. The current version of IP, IPv4, was developed in the 1970s and is the ... |
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| HPC Access Using "KVM over IP" |
08 JUN 2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Dan Kedziorek; Gregory P. Czerniak; ARMY RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING COMMAND WARREN MI
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| A persistent challenge in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) community is how to provide remote visualization capability to its users. A dynamic and economical solution is a KVM-over-IP technology, which uses a pre-existing TCP/IP network to transmit KVM data between two locations. However, the level of performance and functionality present in the current consumer-level KVM-over-IP devices makes them less than desirable for DoD HPC applications. To address the specific needs of ... |
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| Guidance Material for Mode S-Specific Protocol Application Avionics |
04 JUN 2007 |
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| Authors:
R. D. Grappel; R. T. Wiken; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB
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 | This ATC report presents guidance material for the use of the "Ground-Initiated Comm. B" (GICB) register set contained in a Mode S transponder. The guidance material is intended to provide assistance for implementers of Mode S avionics installations. A common summary of the requirements and specifications for Mode S GICB transponder register data link applications is developed. While this ATC report focuses primarily on the "Elementary Surveillance" (ELS), "Enhanced Surveillance" ... |
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| Performance Analysis of SINEMO: Seamless IP-diversity Based Network Mobility |
Jun-2007 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Pulak K Chowdhury; Abu S Reaz; Mohammed Atiquzzaman; William Ivancic; OKLAHOMA UNIV NORMAN
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| IETF has proposed Mobile IPv6-based Network Mobility (NEMO) basic support protocol (BSP) to support network mobility. NEMO BSP inherits all the drawbacks of Mobile IPv6, such as inefficient routing path, single point of failure, high handover latency and packet loss, and high packet overhead. To address these drawbacks, we proposed an IP diversity-based network mobility management scheme called Seamless IP-diversity based NEtwork MObility (SINEMO). In this paper, we develop analytical ... |
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| Using Client Puzzles to Mitigate Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in the Tor Anonymous Routing Environment |
Jun-2007 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Richard A Raines; Nicholas A Fraser; Douglas J Kelly; Rusty O Baldwin; Barry E Mullins; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| A novel client puzzle protocol, the Memoryless Puzzle Protocol (MPP), is proposed and investigated. The goal is to show that MPP is a viable solution for mitigating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in an anonymous routing environment. One such environment, Tor, provides anonymity for interactive Internet services. However, Tor relies on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, making it vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Although client puzzles are often proposed ... |
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| Performance Analysis and Comparison of Multiple Routing Protocols in a Large-Area, High-Speed Mobile Node Ad Hoc Network |
JUN 2007 |
139 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel K. Roberts; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| The U.S. Air Force is interested in developing a standard ad hoc framework using "heavy" aircraft to route data across large regions. The Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) has the potential to provide seamless large-scale routing for DOD under the Joint Tactical Radio System program. The goal of this study is to determine if there is a difference between routing protocol performance when operating in a large-area MANET with high-speed mobile ... |
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| Performance Evaluation of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols in a Swarm of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
MAR 2007 |
119 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew T. Hyland; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This thesis investigates the performance of three mobile ad hoc routing protocols in the context of a swarm of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is proposed that a wireless network of nodes having an average of 5.1774 log n neighbors, where n is the total number of nodes in the network, has a high probability of having no partitions. By decreasing transmission range while ensuring network connectivity, and implementing ... |
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| Static Reachability Analysis and Validation Regarding Security Policies Implemented via Packet Filters |
MAR 2007 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen M. Kantz; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The ability to statically determine what kinds of packets can be exchanged between two hosts on a network is desirable to those who design and operate networks but this is a difficult and complex problem. Factors affecting reachability analysis are packet filters routing policies and packet transformations. The number of variables within and among networks is intractable for manual computation. A proposed solution to this mess is a tractable framework ... |
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| An Evaluation Methodology for Protocol Analysis Systems |
MAR 2007 |
263 pages |
| Authors:
Chris W. Hoffmeister; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Current day communication systems rely on protocols to provide secure communications among parties. Weaknesses in protocols, at first thought to be secure, have been found through deep analysis. There are many systems that have been designed to provide a means to test the various security characteristics of communication protocols. We present an evaluation methodology that can be used to evaluate protocol analysis systems based on their scope, correctness, performance, and ... |
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| Development of an Open Building Automation System Specification Based on ANSI/ASHRAE 135-2004 (BACnet(Registered) Communications Protocol): A Technical Assessment |
FEB 2007 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
David M. Schwenk; Stephen J. Briggs; David M. Underwood; Joseph Bush; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER CHAMPAIGN IL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB
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| This work assessed the potential for development of a building automation system (BAS) specification (for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems, etc.) based on the BACnet communications protocol. Although BACnet is widely supported, no building automation system (BAS) specification exists that implements BACnet as an Open System. The BACnet protocol is detailed, includes comprehensive requirements, and also provides options in how individual vendors might choose to implement it. Such vendor-specific ... |
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| Probabilistic Analysis of Onion Routing in a Black-box Model |
2007 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Joan Feigenbaum; Aaron Johnson; Paul Syverson; YALE UNIV NEW HAVEN CT
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| We perform a probabilistic analysis of onion routing. The analysis is presented in a black-box model of anonymous communication that abstracts the essential properties of onion routing in the presence of an active adversary that controls a portion of the network and knows all a priori distributions on user choices of destination. Our results quantify how much the adversary can gain in identifying users by exploiting knowledge of their probabilistic ... |
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| An Optimal Symmetric Secret Distribution of Star Networks |
2007 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Bruhadeshwar Bezawada; Sandeep S. Kulkarni; INTERNATIONAL INST OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD (INDIA)
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| In this paper, we present a lower bound on secret distribution in star network. Examples of star communication network exist in various systems including sensor networks where there is one base station and several sensors that need to communicate with it. While the previous result had shown the possibility of performing secret distribution in a star network using 2 log n secrets, the lower bound for this problem was unknown. ... |
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| Deriving Key Distribution Protocols and their Security Properties |
04 DEC 2006 |
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| Authors:
Iliano Cervesato; Catherine Meadows; Dusko Pavlovic; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| We apply the derivational method of protocol verification to key distribution protocols. This method assembles the security properties of a protocol by composing the guarantees offered by embedded fragments and patterns. It has shed light on fundamental notions such as challenge-response and fed a growing taxonomy of protocols. Here, we similarly capture the essence of key distribution, authentication time stamps and key confirmation. With these building blocks, we derive the ... |
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| Scalable HAIPE Discovery |
01 DEC 2006 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Glen Nakamoto; MITRE CORP BEDFORD MA
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| This paper presents a scalable concept for the dynamic discovery of High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryption (HAIPE) devices situated across multiple striped network segments. The term striped in this context refers to traversing from a red (or classified) network to a black (or unclassified) network to a red network in a multiple concatenated manner (i.e., red-black-red-black-red ...). There are many reasons why network segmentation using IP encryption may occur: use ... |
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| KDD - Overcoming Massive Data Streams for Intelligence Tasks |
01 DEC 2006 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Vera Kamp; PLATH GMBH HAMBURG (GERMANY)
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| Actually very interesting IT systems promise to reveal connections between apparently harmless and unrelated information pieces. An article from the New York Times in February 2006 makes clear that common data mining techniques were not successful in general. Despite huge investments, correlating data from different sources did not yield satisfactory results. Transforming low-level data by aggregation to meaningful events is nevertheless the key to building the basis for succeeding decisions ... |
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| Performance Analysis of the Mobile IP Protocol (RFC 3344 and Related RFCS) |
DEC 2006 |
148 pages |
| Authors:
Chin C. Ng; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Mobile IP defines the mechanisms and protocol behaviors necessary to facilitate the seamless flow of traffic to a mobile host that roams from its normal home network. Of particular interest in this research, is how this capability might support the relatively rapid roaming of a wirelessly connected host. This research is focused on isolating and analyzing the constituent components of the Mobile IP protocol for the purpose of identifying any ... |
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| The Department of Defense's Transition of Program of Record (POR) Systems from Internet Protocol Version Four (IPv4) to Internet Protocol Version Six (IPv6) |
DEC 2006 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Kyle L. Perkins; Michael A. Scott; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The objective of this Joint Applied Project was to examine the technical, financial, and implementation aspects for DoD transitioning POR systems to IPv6. The research outlines the initial intended useful life and limitations of IPv4 and IPv6. The financial aspects of transitioning to IPv6 are examined from a programs perspective, relative to the Program Objective Memorandum (POM). Implementation of transition strategies and mechanisms are identified and courses of action for ... |
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| A Performance Analysis of BGP MPLS VPN Failover Functionality |
DEC 2006 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
Guan C. Tan; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Future military systems, many of which have unique timing requirements, will rely on the Global Information Grid (GIG) as the core data communication infrastructure. The GIG currently uses the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)/Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology to provide secure and robust IP-level connectivity. This technology supports the provisioning of IP connectivity by a service provider to multiple customers over a common physical IP backbone while ... |
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| IPv6: Key to Army Future Force Net-Centric Capabilities |
NOV 2006 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
T. J. Walsh; A. K. Jain; K. F. Chan; OFFICE OF THE PROJECT MANAGER COMMON HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FORT MONMOUTH NJ
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| This paper reports on the Next Generation Internet Protocol (IPv6), a key enabler to the achievement of Net-centric capabilities to support the Army's Future Force. In addition, the paper describes the Fort Monmouth IPv6 Center of Excellence initiatives undertaken in response to the difficult IPv6 transitional challenges. It also presents the positive operational results, obtained from participating in the 2006 Joint User Interoperability Communications Exercise (JUICE), that focused on interoperability ... |
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| Component Based Routing: A New Methodology for Designing Routing Protocols for Manet |
NOV 2006 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
John S. Baras; He Huang; MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK INST FOR SYSTEMS RESEARCH
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| Large variation of performance due to various environment inputs is a major impediment of implementing existing routing protocols for MANET in the battlefield. Therefore, it is a major challenge to design a routing protocol that can adapt its behavior to environment alteration. In consideration of adaptability to the environment and flexibility in protocol construction, a novel component based routing protocol methodology is proposed in this paper. Distinguished from conventional investigation ... |
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| Implementation of a Priority Service for SMTP |
01 OCT 2006 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Schmeing; FGAN-FKIE WACHTBERG (GERMANY)
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| Current Military Message Handling Systems (MMHS) are based on the X.400 standard of the International Standardization Organization. Recent examinations have shown that the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) can satisfy most requirements for MMHS. For the only relevant requirement not satisfied, we have developed a solution. This paper describes the solution and an experimental implementation. Additionally, the results from a series of tests on a tactical narrow bandwidth testbed are ... |
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| The Joint Live Virtual Constructive Data Translator Framework - Interoperability for a Seamless Joint Training Environment |
01 SEP 2006 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Warren Bizub; Derek Bryan; Edward Harvey; UNITED STATES JOINT FORCES COMMAND NORFOLK VA
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| US Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) program has been tasked by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) for Personnel and Readiness (P&R) to develop and integrate a distributed, seamless Joint Training Environment (JTE) consisting of Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training technologies. Currently, LVC assets within the JNTC architecture are integrated through loosely defined protocols, multiple types and instances of protocol translators, and ... |
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| Implementation and Analysis of a Threat Model for IPv6 Host Autoconfiguration |
SEP 2006 |
105 pages |
| Authors:
Savvas Chozos; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| IPv6, the successor of IPv4, introduces the stateless autoconfiguration feature as a convenient alternative to the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). However, the security implications of this new approach have only been discussed at the conceptual level. This thesis research develops software based on the open-source packet capture library Jpcap to capture and build appropriate ICMPv6 autoconfiguration messages. The developed Java software is used to implement two DoS threats to ... |
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| XML Tactical Chat (XTC): Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol for Command and Control Applications |
SEP 2006 |
192 pages |
| Authors:
Adrian D. Arnold; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Current chat and instant messaging (IM) solutions within the DoD have created problems with information security and interoperability. Though Extensible Message and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is the only mandated chat and IM protocol in the DoD, the majority of the military still operates alternate nonstandard solutions that prevent interoperability and lack appropriate security assurances. XMPP is a streaming XML protocol used for multi-user text chat and Instant Messaging (IM). XMPP ... |
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| A Management Perspective of the Department of Defense (DoD) Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Transition Plan, Where it is Today, and Where it Needs to be by the Year 2008 |
SEP 2006 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Peter W. Hart; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis focused on the management aspects of the DoD IPv6 Transition Plan. It addressed the management required to transition the DoD computer systems from IPv4 to IPv6. The study identified how computer systems will be affected by the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. The advantages, disadvantages, and risks associated with the transition were analyzed to determine potential areas of improvement. The study provided recommendations that can be used before, ... |
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| A Model of Onion Routing With Provable Anonymity |
30 AUG 2006 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Aaron Johnson; YALE UNIV NEW HAVEN CT DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Onion routing is a scheme for anonymous communication that is designed for practical use. It has not been modeled formally, however, and therefore its anonymity guarantees have not been rigorously analyzed. We give an IO-automata model of an onion-routing protocol and, under possibilistic definitions, characterize the situations in which anonymity and unlinkability are guaranteed. |
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| Effect of Slow Fading and Adaptive Modulation on TCP/UDP Performance of High-Speed Packet Wireless Networks |
25 AUG 2006 |
142 pages |
| Authors:
Xuanming Dong; CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| High speed data wireless networks in multipath environments suffer channel impairment from many sources such as thermal noise, path loss, shadowing, and fading. In particular, short-term fading caused by mobility imposes irreducible error floor bounds on system performance. We study the effect of fading on the performance of the widely used TCP/UDP protocol, and investigate how to improve TCP performance over fading channels. Our solutions target upcoming mobile wireless systems ... |
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| End-to-End Concurrent Multipath Transfer Using Transport Layer Multihoming |
Jul-2006 |
124 pages |
| Authors:
Janardhan R Iyengar; DELAWARE UNIV NEWARK DEPT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
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| Transport layer multihoming binds a single transport layer association to multiple network addresses at each endpoint, thus allowing the two end hosts to communicate over multiple network paths. This dissertation investigates end-to-end Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT) using transport layer multihoming for increased application throughput. CMT is the simultaneous transfer of new data from a source host to a destination host via two or more end-to-end paths. We investigate and evaluate ... |
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| Crisis Management- Operational Logistics & Asset Visibility Technologies |
JUN 2006 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Richard A. Braunbeck; Michael F. Mastria; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The purpose of this MBA Project was to identify and explore logistical frameworks that leverage technology to overcome problems associated with coordinated logistics operations during crisis management. Over the past ten years, there have been significant advances in RFID, satellite and other related asset visibility technologies. These advances are mature enough to significantly increase the probability of achieving a useful common operational picture during emergency response activities. Recent crisis response ... |
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| Mitigating TCP Degradation over Intermittent Link Failures using Intermediate Buffers |
JUN 2006 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
M. B. Reynolds; AIR FORCE INST OF TECHNOLOGY WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This thesis addresses the improvement of data transmission performance in a challenged network. It is well known that the popular Transmission Control Protocol degrades in environments where one or more of the links along the route is intermittently available. To avoid this degradation, this thesis proposes placing at least one node along the path of transmission to buffer and retransmit as needed to overcome the intermittent link. In the four-node, ... |
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