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Secure and reliable Wireless and Ad hoc COMmunications - SWACOM
News:
- Swacom work meeting at UNIK, Kjeller on 23.-24. September 2009
- SWACOM partner Prof. Vicente Casares Giner from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain visited UniK, and UiA from 31 August to 5 September 2009. The title of his public presentation is 'On Movement-Based Location Update: A Lookahead Strategy'.
- Peter Edenhofer from University of Bochum is visiting UNIK during 13.-14. August 2009, he will talk on "Neural networks and genetic algorithms" on 13. August at 14:15h
- Swacom work meeting in Stavanger on 5 June 2009, with slides
- Josef Noll was elected eMobility coordinator for obj. 1.3 in EU FP7 call 5 during the proposal coordination meeting 4. May 2009 in Paris
- Dumitru Roman is visiting UNIK on 26.-27. January 2009, and presenting "Combining Policies and Processes for Service Contracting", another aspect of the Semantic work on Service Continuity in WP2.
- SWACOM partner Prof. Ramjee Prasad from Aalborg University, Denmark, visited UiA in week 14, 2009.
- SWACOM partner Associate Prof. Vicent Pla from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain visited UniK, UiA, and UiA from 21 August to 31 August 2008. The title of his public presentation is 'Optimal robust policies for bandwidth allocation and admission control in wireless networks'.
- Public SWACOM workshop at UiA on 9. June 2008
- Dr. Frank Li visited a SWACOM partner - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) in week 23. He gave three lectures on ad hoc networking at UPV.
- SWACOM partner Prof. Ulf Körner from Lund University visited UiA in week 19. He gave two lectures on queueing theory and one public presentation on 'Trends in Mobile Communications'. The public presentation was well attended not only by UiA professors and students but also participants from industry like Ericsson and Devoteam, and administration body Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority.
- The UNIK crew visits The Technical University of Budapest for PhD exchange and research co-operations on 30.3.-2.4.2008 (read more)
- Dumitru Roman (STI2, Innsbruck) visited UniK on 3.-4. Feb 2007 for discussions on semantic reasoning
- Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman Chowdhury (UniK) visited Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in November-December 2007 for exchange on Semantic Authentication
- One open PhD position (application deadline 05 Oct. 2007)Δ
- To strengthen cooperation with our international partners, Associate Professor Hans-Peter Schwefel from Aalborg University visits us from 13 August to 27 August 2007. He gives an intensive PhD course "Wireless Network Performance Evaluation" at the University of Agder with 7 PhD participants. He gives also a public seminar entitled "Adaptive Replication for Dependable Mobile Services" at the University of Agder, UniK and UiS.
- SWACOM project Meeting at Stavanger, June 8 2007
- Juan Miguel Gomez of Departamento de Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid visited UniK in the May/June timeframe. Mushfiq and Juan developed the Semantic Identity SemID.org
- As part of the project plan for cooperation with our international partners, Yaoda Liu from Aalborg University is visiting UniK from 5th March to 19th March, 2007.
- Two PhD positions open, resulting from Swacom workshops
- Swacom meeting 19.12.2006, 1000-1500 at UniK
- Son Thanh Nguyen from Hanoi University of Technology in Vietnam has accepted the offer as a PhD candidate in Swacom, dedicated to WP1
- Geir Egeland from Telenor R&D has accepted the offer as a PhD candidate in Swacom, dedicated to WP3
- Potential schemes for an EU FP7 proposal
- Swacom meeting: 15.6.2006, UniK, status, candidates
- Chowdhury Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman has accepted the offer as a PhD candidate in Swacom, dedicated to WP2
- Guest lecture at UiS by Dr. Erdal CAYIRCI from NATO Joint Warfare Centre at Jåttå, Stavanger on Medium Access Control For Military Cooperating Object Networks, Friday, 07.04.2006 (11:00h - 12:00h)
Event history:
Partners
University of Stavanger (UiS) and the University Graduate Centre at Kjeller (UniK), joined by partners from the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), the Thales Norway, the Konsberg Defence Communication (KDC), the Telenor R&D, and the Birdstep Technology ASA.
International Partners
Aalborg University, Denmark; University of Malaga, Spain; Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain; Lund University, Sweden; Linköping University, Sweden; Chinese Academy of Science, China.
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| Welcome to Swacom kick-off 27.-28.3.2006: Frank, Pål, Chunming and Josef |
Contact information to SWACOM partners
Objectives
The principal objective of the project is to analyze vulnerabilities and develop mechanisms to provide secure and reliable networks using wireless communications. A particular focus is on securing dynamic and large scale distributed ad hoc networks which have significance in both civilian and military applications. For instance, we will consider the latest development in the research of elliptic curves cryptography (ECC) and identity-based encryption and signature schemes (IBE/IBS) to provide security services. Other services may base upon the provided secure reliable wireless communication platform. The project will strengthen the ability of individuals and companies to protect their information over the open air transmission. The research will be an interaction between issues in security, privacy protection and vulnerability and issues in communication technology and infrastructure.
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Sub goals
- Design authentication, key-exchange, secure routing protocols that in an efficient way may secure ubiquitous computing environments, like wireless or mobile ad hoc communication, using the recent advancement in the research of elliptic curves cryptosystem and identity-based cryptosystem;
- Design user mobility and service continuity mechanisms across heterogeneous wireless networks, that involve session continuity across multiple Access Points (APs) in WLANs and WiMAX networks, seamless roaming and secure service between 2G/3G cellular systems and WLANs and WiMAX networks;
- Provide reliable communications in mobile ad hoc networks that involves topology control and connectivity algorithms, reliable data transmission over multiple hops in distributed ad hoc networks, and novel MAC protocols for multi-path communications in wireless networks;
- Provide QoS frameworks and resource management mechanisms in wireless networks that involve cross-layer QoS design for wireless channels, and QoS enhancements to IEEE 802.11-based WLANs and IEEE 802.16-based WiMAX networks;
- Develop a demonstrator for secure and reliable multi-hop voice and data communications based on PDAs or laptops;
- Raise public awareness on the security issues in wireless communications.
Work packages
WP1: Secure wireless and ad hoc communication
The work package will focus on security and reliability, with three main objectives:
- Identify cryptographic mechanisms and protocols that are applicable to wireless and especially ad hoc networking;
- Design security architecture suitable for use in wireless and ad hoc networking;
- Simulate and possibly implement the proposed mechanisms and architecture.
WP2: User mobility and services continuity
The work package will focus on service continuity, covering both Mobile IP and SIP-based architectures. The following outcome is expected:
- Enhancement mechanisms for user authentication in wireless networks;
- Mechanisms for seamless user access through SIM authentication in 802.11 WLANs and 802.16 WiMAX networks;
- Interworking of SIM based authentication between personal devices, based on local communication, i.e. Near Field Communication and/or Bluetooth;
- Mechanisms to keep session continuity with QoS insurance while users are moving across multiple APs in WLANs and WiMAX networks;
- Mechanisms for secure service roaming between 2G/3G/4G mobile networks and WLANs and WiMAX networks.
WP3: Reliable communications in mobile ad hoc networks
This work package concentrates on reliable communications, and plans to deliver:
- Theoretical study on topology control and network connectivity for distributed mobile ad hoc network;
- Algorithms for reliable and optimal path selection in the presence of multiple channels in wireless ad hoc networks;
- MAC layer algorithms/mechanisms for QoS enhancements to existing IEEE 802.11-based WLANs and IEEE 802.16-based WiMAX networks;
- Radio resource management and scheduling considering the dynamics of radio channels;
- A prototype demonstrator for reliable multi-hop ad hoc communications.
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