BARTER: Behavior Profile Exchange for Behavior-Based Admission and Access Control in MANETs

Abstract. Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are very dynamic networks with devices continuously entering and leaving the group. The highly dynamic nature of MANETs renders the manual creation and update of policies associated with the initial incorporation of devices to the MANET (admission control) as well as with anomaly detection during communications among members (access control) a very difficult task. In this paper, we present BARTER, a mechanism that automatically creates and updates admission and access control policies for MANETs based on behavior profiles. BARTER is an adaptation for fully distributed environments of our previously introduced BB-NAC mechanism for NAC technologies. Rather than relying on a centralized NAC enforcer, MANET members initially exchange their behavior profiles and compute individual local definitions of normal network behavior. During admission or access control, each member issues an individual decision based on its definition of normalcy. Individual...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICISS
• Authors: Vanessa Frías-Martínez, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Angelos D. Keromytis
• Keywords: Access Control, Behavior Profiles, ICISS 2009, Information Technology, MANET Members