Enhanced intrusion detection systems in ad hoc networks using a grid based agnostic middleware

• Authors: Pasquale Donadio;Antonio Cimmino;Giorgio Ventre
• Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Agent-oriented software engineering challenges for ubiquitous and pervasive computing
• Year: 2008

With the increasing popularity of the wireless Ad Hoc networks, the security issue for mobile hosts could be even more serious than we expect. The intrinsic vulnerable characteristics of mobile networks, without a fixed underlying infrastructure, are the low rejection to unauthorized intrusions. In this paper we focus on a Grid based Intrusion Detection System (G-IDS). We present a new architecture that use the basic principles of the Grid computing and apply them to the intrusion detection mechanisms, in order to protect networks characterized by the constantly changing of the topology. Our research is not focused on new algorithms or products capable to solve the security problem in Ad hoc networks: our goal is to define a process and software architectures that minimize the security risk in not centralized wireless networks, acting the principle that the wireless network security is not a "product" but a well defined "process". On the basis of the defined architecture we have implemented a prototype of Grid based IDS Agent that validates our thesis. The prototype is realized integrating two open-source technologies: GLOBUS of the GLOBUS Alliance and CoMo of Intel Corporation.