Mitigation of the effects of selfish and malicious nodes in ad-hoc networks
WSEAS Transactions on Computers
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Employees in today's enterprises are requesting their employers to allow them to work in a flexible manner. Work is no longer a place to go to but an activity to be undertaken. With developments in technology, the activity can be undertaken whenever and wherever it is convenient for the employees. Increasing demands by employees to be able to work in this way creates a tension within the enterprise as CIOs and finance officers strive to manage the costs and the infrastructure required to support this way of working. Over time, this situation will change as technology allows users to roam securely and seamlessly between networks accessing the required applications and information from a single suitably enabled device. This will tend to reduce the underlying costs as the best connection can be used. Service management will remain a challenge but become a better understood problem as the 'stove-pipe' nature of current solutions is removed. For this change to be brought about, some enabling technologies have to be put in place.This paper considers issues surrounding next generation mobile solutions and shows how converged services can be used to deliver the vision of being able to work from any place, at any time. Consideration is given to how roaming from fixed to wireless networks can be achieved by reusing already established authentication principles that are now deployed in wide area wireless networks. In order to do this, open methods of managing user identity need to be devised and implemented and approaches to this are also discussed. The paper concludes with a consideration of some of the research challenges that remain to be solved.