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BibliographyWacker, Arno; Heiber, Timo; Cermann, Holger; Marron, Pedro: A fault-tolerant Key-Distribution Scheme for Securing Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.
In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
Vienna, Austria: Springer-Verlag, April 2004.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationSecond International Conference on Pervasive Computing
CR-SchemaC.2.0 (Computer-Communication Networks, General)
C.2.1 (Network Architecture and Design)
C.2.2 (Network Protocols)
C.3 (Special-Purpose and Application-Based Systems)
G.2.2 (Discrete Mathematics Graph Theory)
Keywordswireless, ad-hoc networks, security, key-distribution, fault tolerance
Abstract

We propose a novel solution for securing wireless ad-hoc networks. Our goal is to provide secure key exchange in the presence of device failures and denial-of-service attacks. The proposed solution relies solely on symmetric cryptography and therefore is applicable for highly resource-limited devices. In order to avoid a single point of trust, no master device or base station is used. We achieve this by enhancing our previously published approach with redundancy and algorithms for recovery on device failures.

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CopyrightArno.Wacker@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
ContactArno Wacker Arno.Wacker@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Entry dateJanuary 22, 2004
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