Security Solutions In Mobile Autonomic Networks

Most of ad-hoc network features encourage self-management. This paper introduces security solutions for ad-hoc networks, taking into consideration their need for an autonomic nature. After defining autonomic networks, we present the MAutoNet (Mobile Autonomic Network) which is our specific type of ad-hoc networks. Our general objective is to build an autonomic security system for MAutoNets. We introduce here a security-based network structure, according to which such system can control a MAutoNet. We then elaborate a relevant access control model that we call SRBAC (Secure-Relation-Based Access Control). It is a variant of RBAC enhanced with trust management, which is required in autonomic communications.