Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART ONE: WIRELESS AD HOC, SENSOR AND MESH NETWORKING

1. Introduction

1.1 Information Security

1.2 Scope of the Book

1.3 Structure of the Book

1.4 Electronic Resources for the Book

1.5 Review Questions

2. Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks

2.1 Ad Hoc Networks and Applications

2.2 Sensor and Actuator Networks

2.3 Mesh Networks

2.4 Tactical Communications and Networks

2.5 Factors Influencing the Design of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks

2.6 Review Questions

3. Wireless Medium

3.1 Wireless Channel Fundamentals and Security

3.2 Advanced Radio Technologies

3.3 Review Questions

4. Medium Access and Error Control

4.1 Medium Access Control

4.2 Error Control

4.3 Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

4.4 Wireless Local Area Networks

4.5 Wireless Personal Area Networks

4.6 Review Questions

5. Routing

5.1 Internet Protocol and Mobile IP

5.2 Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

5.3 Routing in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

5.4 Review Questions

6. Reliability, Flow and Congestion Control

6.1 Reliability

6.2 Flow and Congestion Control

6.3 Review Questions

7. Other Challenges and Security Aspects

7.1 Localization and Positioning

7.2 Time Synchronization

7.3 Addressing

7.4 Data Aggregation and Fusion

7.5 Data Querying

7.6 Coverage

7.7 Mobility Management

7.8 Cross-layer Design

7.9 Review Questions

PART TWO: SECURITY IN WIRELESS AD HOC, SENSOR AND MESH NETWORKING

8. Security Attacks in Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks

8.1 Security Attacks

8.2 Attackers

8.3 Security Goals

8.4 Review Questions

9. Cryptography

9.1 Symmetric Encryption

9.2 Asymmetric Encryption

9.3 Hash Functions and Message Authentication Code

9.4 Cascading Hashing

9.5 Review Questions

10. Challenges and Solutions: Basic Issues

10.1 Bootstrapping Security in Ad Hoc Networks

10.2 Bootstrapping

Erdal Çay rc graduated from the Army Academy in 1986 and from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1989. He received his MS degree from the Middle East Technical University and a PhD from Bogazici University both in computer engineering in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He retired from the army when he was a colonel in 2005. He was an Associate Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Yeditepe University and the Naval Sciences and Engineering Institute between 2001 and 2005. Also in 2001, he was a visiting researcher for the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory and a visiting lecturer at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently Chief, CAX Support Branch in NATO s JointWarfare Center in Stavanger, Norway, and also a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Stavanger. His research interests include military constructive simulation, sensor networks, mobile communications and tactical communications. Professor Çay rc has acted as an editor of the journals IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Networks , and has guest edited four special issues of Computer Networks , Ad Hoc Networks and Special Topics in Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET) . He received the 2002 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award for his paper entitled A Survey on Sensor Networks published in the IEEE Communications Magazine in August 2002, the Fikri Gayret Award from the Turkish Chief of General Staff in 2003, the Innovation of the Year Award from the Turkish Navy in 2005 and the Excellence Award in ITEC in 2006. Chunming Rong received his bachelors, masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Bergen in Norway in 1993, 1995 and 1998, respectively. In 1995 1998, he was a research fellow at the University of Bergen. In 2001 2003, he was a post doctoral researcher funded by Simula Research Laboratory. Currently, he