Privacy for mobile networks via network virtualization
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Glidden, Todd P.
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Singh, Gurminder
Gibson, John
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2009-03
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Today mobile devices have become powerful and ubiquitous. The conveniences afforded by these devices do not come without a cost, however. The use of mobile devices and mobile networks poses a significant risk to privacy. Four privacy requirements for mobile networks are identified: content privacy, identity privacy, location privacy, and authentication. This work focuses on content privacy. Two threats to content privacy are identified: the casual observer and the attacker. This work seeks to provide content privacy protection against the identified threats in mobile networks used by first responders. TwiddleNet, a mobile network designed for the data dissemination requirements of first responders, was used as a platform for implementation. A network virtualization technique was used in order to provide content privacy protection. This allows TwiddleNet users to share content on a per-group basis among virtual networks of user groups. It was found that this virtualization technique successfully provided content privacy protection from the threat of a casual observer, but not from an attacker. Providing adequate protections from the attacker threat requires more sophisticated measures and is left to future work.
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13th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), June 17-19, 2008, Seattle, WA
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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xii, 51 p. : ill. (some col.) ;
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined
in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the
public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States
Code, Section 105, is not copyrighted in the U.S.