Efficient state estimation and Byzantine behavior identification in tactical MANETs

  • Authors:
  • Peter Ebinger;Stephen D. Wolthusen

  • Affiliations:
  • Security Technology Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Darmstadt, Germany and Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Norwegian Information Security Laboratbry, Gjøvik University College, Gjøvik, Norway and Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Limited capabilities and mission requirements imply that nodes in Tactical Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) carry a significant risk of being compromised physically or logically. In addition nodes or groups of nodes may defect, which is a particular concern in coalition environments where networks may spread beyond organizational boundaries. To identify defecting or compromised nodes including Byzantine behavior we propose a clustered intrusion detection architecture. Our architecture exploits multisensor data and supplementary information to identify defectors based on deviations from predicted values and correlated measurements and behavior. Furthermore multi-hop communication complexity is minimized to ensure robustness in environments with limited connectivity and frequent network partitioning. We show that our approach improves accuracy over naive Markov Chain and Kullback-Leibler divergence by boosting the number of particles, where probability density functions are highly nonlinear but partially known and can be determined using predictive importance sampling.