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A trust management framework is useful to ensure proper functioning of a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). Trust metadata created by individual nodes, based on their observation of the behavior of other nodes in their vicinity, is required to be accessible to a trust authority (TA) (e.g., the network administrator) for prompt decision making (e.g., revoking malicious nodes). In this work, for security and scalability reasons, we propose a secure semantics-aware trust metadata management scheme to partition and store an information network of trust metadata of nodes in a MANET. That is, trust metadata is securely propagated to and stored at certain geographic locations inside the network itself, based on its semantics. The TA can send queries of various types in the network to obtain the trust metadata of its interest. This scheme is robust to several security attacks that attempt to disrupt the availability of trust metadata in the network. Our analysis shows that the proposed scheme provides desirable security and functionality properties with low query overhead.
This work was supported by the NS-CTA grant from the Army Research Laboratory. The views and conclusions contained here are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either express or implied, of ARL.
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Natarajan, V., Yang, Y., Zhu, S. (2012). Secure Trust Metadata Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. In: Venkatakrishnan, V., Goswami, D. (eds) Information Systems Security. ICISS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7671. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35130-3_12
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