Security Topics and Mobility Management in Hierarchical Ad Hoc Networks (Samoyed)

Samoyed project focuses on solving mobility management and security problems in hierarchical ad hoc networks, especially ad hoc access networks. This means that nodes, connecting without a pre-existing infrastructure in a peer-to-peer fashion, form a communicating network that offers wireless mobile devices access to a fixed network, for example the Internet.

We study and develop designs and tools for mobility management and security in such networks. The goal is to produce both new analytical information on the performance and security issues and more tangible results, such as specifications, architecture models and proof-of-concept implementations.

The project started in September 2003 and is funded by TEKES, Ericsson and the Finnish Defence Forces. Its planned duration is three years. The project supervisor is professor Pekka Orponen.

People

The project group consists of two people:

Main research topics

Publications

Mikko Särelä, Pekka Nikander, "Applying Host Identity Protocol to Tactical Networks," to appear in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM2004), Monterey, CA, Oct 31-Nov 3, 2004.

Mikko Särelä Measuring the Effects of Mobility of Reactive Ad Hoc Routing Protocols. Master's thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Laboratory for Theoretical Computer Science, 2004.

Mikko Särelä and Maarit Hietalahti, Security Topics and Mobility Management in Hierarchical Ad Hoc Networks: A Literature Survey. Technical Report, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Laboratory for Theoretical Computer Science. April, 2004.


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Updated on: 12th October 2004. Mikko Särelä