Facilitating secure ad hoc service discovery in public environments

  • Authors:
  • Feng Zhu;Matt Mutka;Lionel Ni

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, 3115 Engineering Building, East Lansing, MI;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, 3115 Engineering Building, East Lansing, MI;Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Computer software & applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Securely accessing unfamiliar services in public environments using ad hoc wireless networks is challenging. We present a proxy-based approach that uses alternative network channels to establish a secure trust relationship between communication parties to facilitate ad hoc wireless communications. Based on a service discovery protocol, our models achieve secure, trusted, anonymous, efficient, and economical communications between unfamiliar parties. Our protocol design is formally verified using BAN logic.