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PECASE: Information Assurance for Energy Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks

Principal Investigator
Radha Poovendran

Sponsor(s)
U.S. Army Research Office (ARO)

Award Period
08/15/2005 - 08/14/2009

Abstract
The objective force of the Future Combat System (FCS) is characterized by coalition of unmanned air, ground and sea) vehicles, soldiers on the ground, and advanced but resource- constrained sensors, all making use of wireless networking. The digital networks thus formed consist of nodes with varying capabilities that must be agile, fault tolerant, secure and available for the duration of the mission duration. It is vital to the mission success that the coalition network provides authentic, reliable, secure and timely information dissemination. Thus, Quality of Service (QoS) (which may include packet loss rate, delay, delay variacne and throughput) and security are critical features that must be inherent in the complex network formed by FCS systems. This project proposes to develop robust algorithms and protocols that incorporate security into QoS guarantees in the information and maintennance of resource limited sub- systems of the coalition of networks.

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