Biblio
With wide applications like surveillance and imaging, securing underwater acoustic Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANET) becomes a double-edged sword for oceanographic operations. Underwater acoustic MANET inherits vulnerabilities from 802.11-based MANET which renders traditional cryptographic approaches defenseless. A Trust Management Framework (TMF), allowing maintained confidence among participating nodes with metrics built from their communication activities, promises secure, efficient and reliable access to terrestrial MANETs. TMF cannot be directly applied to the underwater environment due to marine characteristics that make it difficult to differentiate natural turbulence from intentional misbehavior. This work proposes a trust model to defend underwater acoustic MANETs against attacks using a machine learning method with carefully chosen communication metrics, and a cloud model to address the uncertainty of trust in harsh underwater environments. By integrating the trust framework of communication with the cloud model to combat two kinds of uncertainties: fuzziness and randomness, trust management is greatly improved for underwater acoustic MANETs.
Cloud computing is a new paradigm and emerged technology for hosting and delivering resources over a network such as internet by using concepts of virtualization, processing power and storage. However, many challenging issues are still unclear in cloud-based environments and decrease the rate of reliability and efficiency for service providers and users. User Authentication is one of the most challenging issues in cloud-based environments and according to this issue this paper proposes an efficient user authentication model that involves both of defined phases during registration and accessing processes. Geo Detection and Digital Signature Authorization (GD2SA) is a user authentication tool for provisional access permission in cloud computing environments. The main aim of GD2SA is to compare the location of an un-registered device with the location of the user by using his belonging devices (e.g. smart phone). In addition, this authentication algorithm uses the digital signature of account owner to verify the identity of applicant. This model has been evaluated in this paper according to three main parameters: efficiency, scalability, and security. In overall, the theoretical analysis of the proposed model showed that it can increase the rate of efficiency and reliability in cloud computing as an emerging technology.