A Platform for Implementing Secure Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces a modular platform for secure wireless ad hoc networks built on Ethernet, featuring a novel security protocol for mutual authentication and key exchange validated by Guttman's tests.

Contribution

It presents a new platform architecture and a security protocol specifically designed for wireless ad hoc networks, ensuring mutual authentication and secure key exchange.

Findings

Platform architecture is modular and Ethernet-based.

Security protocol ensures mutual authentication.

Protocol correctness validated by Guttman's tests.

Abstract

We propose a new platform for implementing secure wireless ad hoc networks. Our proposal is based on a modular architecture, with the software stack constructed directly on the Ethernet layer. Within our platform we use a new security protocol that we designed to ensure mutual authentication between nodes and a secure key exchange. The correctness of the proposed security protocol is ensured by Guttman's authentication tests.