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Establishing Trust in Pure Ad-Hoc Networks
Overview An ad-hoc network of wireless nodes is a temporarily formed network, created, operated and managed by the nodes themselves. It is also often termed an infrastructure-less, self-organized, or spontaneous network. Nodes assist each other by passing data and control packets from one node to another, often beyond the wireless range of the original sender. A number of protocols have been developed to secure ad-hoc networks using cryptographic schemes, but all rely on the presence of an omnipresent, and often omniscient, trust authority. As this paper describes, dependence on a central trust authority is an impractical requirement for ad-hoc networks. This paper presents a model for trust-based communication in ad-hoc networks that also demonstrates that a central trust authority is a superfluous requirement.
| Publisher | Australian Computer Society | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2007 | Downloads | 4 |
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