Secure and reconfigurable network design for critical information dissemination in the Internet of battlefield things (IoBT)
Title | Secure and reconfigurable network design for critical information dissemination in the Internet of battlefield things (IoBT) |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Farooq, M. J., Zhu, Q. |
Conference Name | 2017 15th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) |
Date Published | May 2017 |
Publisher | IEEE |
ISBN Number | 978-3-9018-8290-6 |
Keywords | Ad hoc networks, Analytical models, Battlefield, Biological system modeling, combat efficiency, Computational modeling, coordinated decision-making, critical information dissemination, decision making, epidemics, Geometry, human factors, information dissemination, Internet of battlefield things, Internet of Things, iobt, military communication, mission-critical data, Poisson point process, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, Sensors, telecommunication security, war scenarios, wireless networks |
Abstract | The Internet of things (IoT) is revolutionizing the management and control of automated systems leading to a paradigm shift in areas such as smart homes, smart cities, health care, transportation, etc. The IoT technology is also envisioned to play an important role in improving the effectiveness of military operations in battlefields. The interconnection of combat equipment and other battlefield resources for coordinated automated decisions is referred to as the Internet of battlefield things (IoBT). IoBT networks are significantly different from traditional IoT networks due to the battlefield specific challenges such as the absence of communication infrastructure, and the susceptibility of devices to cyber and physical attacks. The combat efficiency and coordinated decision-making in war scenarios depends highly on real-time data collection, which in turn relies on the connectivity of the network and the information dissemination in the presence of adversaries. This work aims to build the theoretical foundations of designing secure and reconfigurable IoBT networks. Leveraging the theories of stochastic geometry and mathematical epidemiology, we develop an integrated framework to study the communication of mission-critical data among different types of network devices and consequently design the network in a cost effective manner. |
URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7959892 |
DOI | 10.23919/WIOPT.2017.7959892 |
Citation Key | farooq_secure_2017 |
- Internet of battlefield things
- wireless networks
- war scenarios
- telecommunication security
- sensors
- Scalability
- Resiliency
- resilience
- pubcrawl
- Poisson point process
- mission-critical data
- military communication
- iobt
- Internet of Things
- Ad hoc networks
- information dissemination
- Human Factors
- Geometry
- Epidemics
- Decision Making
- critical information dissemination
- coordinated decision-making
- Computational modeling
- combat efficiency
- Biological system modeling
- Battlefield
- Analytical models