Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Thwarting Malicious and Selfish Behavior in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing (Hardcover)

Description 

This is the first self-contained text to consider security and non-cooperative behavior in wireless networks. Major networking trends are analyzed and their implications explained in terms of security and cooperation, and potential malicious and selfish misdeeds are described along with the existing and future security techniques. Fundamental questions of security including user and device identification; establishment of security association; secure and cooperative routing in multi-hop networks; fair bandwidth distribution; and privacy protection are approached from a theoretical perspective and supported by real-world examples including ad hoc, mesh, vehicular, sensor, and RFID networks. Important relationships between trust, security, and cooperation are also discussed. Contains homework problems and tutorials on cryptography and game theory. This text is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of electrical engineering and computer science, and researchers and practitioners in the wireless industry. Lecture slides and instructor-only solutions available online (www.cambridge.org/9780521873710).

• Covers techniques for protecting against hacking, and for cooperation in multi-hop and ad hoc networks • Covers the fundamental issues encompassing the full breadth of security in wireless networks • The tutorial nature of the book makes it more user-friendly

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Part I. Introduction: 1. The security of existing wireless networks; 2. Upcoming wireless networks and new challenges; 3. Trust assumptions and adversary models; Part II. Thwarting Malicious Behavior: 4. Naming and addressing; 5. Establishment of security associations; 6. Securing neighbor discovery; 7. Secure routing in multi-hop wireless networks; 8. Privacy protection; Part III. Thwarting Selfish Behavior: 9. Selfish behavior at the MAC layer of CSMA/CA; 10. Selfishness in packet forwarding; 11. Wireless operators in a shared spectrum; 12. Secure protocols for behavior enforcement; Appendices: A. Introduction to cryptographic algorithms and protocols; B. A tutorial on game theory for wireless networks; Bibliography; Index.