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Information Assurance for Energy Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks

Principal Investigator
Raadhakrishnan Poovendran

Sponsor(s)
Army Research office (ARO)

Award Period
08/15/2005 - 08/14/2008

Abstract
The objective force of the Future Combat System (FCS) is characterized by coalition of unmanned (air, ground and sea) vehicles, soldiers on the ground, and advanced but resource-constrained sensors, all making use of wireless networking. The digital networks thus formed, consist of nodes with varying capabilities that must be agile, fault tolerant, secure and available for the duration of a given mission. It is vital tot he mission success that the coalition network provides authentic, reliable, secure and timely information dissemination. Thus Quality of Service (QoS) (which may include packet loss rate, delay, delay variance and throughput), and security are critical features that must be inherent in the complex network formed by FCS systems. In this ARO PECASE, I propose to enlarge the scope of my ARO YIP and develop robust algorithms and protocols that incorporate security into QoS guarantees in the information and maintenance of resource limited sub-systems of the coalition of networks.

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