A Collaborative Firewall for Wireless Ad-Hoc Social Networks

Leonardo Maccari

2012

Abstract

A collaborative firewall can be realized in a multi-hop distributed wireless network when all or some of the nodes in the network agree on a filtering policy and enforce it when routing a packet. Cooperative firewalling introduces many challenges, how to distribute the rules, how to enforce them, how to reduce the global rule-set in order to limit the impact on the network performance. This paper studies the performance of a collaborative firewall when only a subset of the nodes of the ad-hoc network filter the packets. In order to achieve higher performances the integration with OLSR protocol is proposed. Simulations on realistic scenarios are performed and the source code of the simulator is released.

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in Harvard Style

Maccari L. (2012). A Collaborative Firewall for Wireless Ad-Hoc Social Networks . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-24-2, pages 290-295. DOI: 10.5220/0004071802900295


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt12,
author={Leonardo Maccari},
title={A Collaborative Firewall for Wireless Ad-Hoc Social Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={290-295},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004071802900295},
isbn={978-989-8565-24-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)
TI - A Collaborative Firewall for Wireless Ad-Hoc Social Networks
SN - 978-989-8565-24-2
AU - Maccari L.
PY - 2012
SP - 290
EP - 295
DO - 10.5220/0004071802900295