Watchman: An overlay distributed AAA architecture for mobile ad hoc networks

Amir R. Khakpour, Maryline Laurent-Maknavicius, Hakima Chaouchi

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Abstract

Access control concerns in MANETs are very serious and considered as a crucial challenge for operators who prospects to employ unrivaled capabilities of such networks for different applications. We propose a novel hierarchical distributed AAA architecture for proactive link state routing protocols notably OLSR [1]. This proposal contains a lightweight and secure design of an overlay authentication and authorization paradigm for mobile nodes as well as a reliable accounting system to enable operators to charge nodes based on their connection duration time. We also suggest a hierarchical distributed AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) server architecture with resource and location aware election mechanism. Moreover, this proposal mitigates the OLSR security issues [2] noticeably and eventually defines a node priority-based quality of service.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationARES 2008 - 3rd International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability, Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages144-152
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)0769531024, 9780769531021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability, ARES 2008 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 4 Mar 20087 Mar 2008

Publication series

NameARES 2008 - 3rd International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability, Proceedings

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability, ARES 2008
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period4/03/087/03/08

Keywords

  • AAA architecture
  • MANET
  • OLSR
  • Security

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