EAGER: Collaborative Research: A Secure and Resilient Virtual Trust Routing Framework for Future Internet

University Of Missouri-Kansas City, Columbia MO

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Abstract

Current network-centric Internet service model is prone to resource exhausting attacks such as Distributed Denial of Services attacks. Due to the resource sharing nature and non-coordinated monitoring capability of the current Internet, it is difficult to quickly identify attack sources. Second, a new trend is to develop a user-centric Internet service model, in which traditional local network services are outsourced to remote service providers such as for cloud services. This new trend allows end users to fully control remote service nodes, their interconnections and routing, which imposes great threats on network resource allocations. Thus, it is highly desired that the future Internet is designed to provide a secure service domain that is both network-centric and user-centric. As a fundamental core to this goal, a secure and resilient virtualized routing architecture in a global inter-networking environment is explored to provide network resource reservation protection both at the network-centric and the user-centric level. A novel attribute-based, cryptography-based approach to construct secure virtualization is to be developed. Furthermore, an architectural solution to address the policy enforcement and inter-domain trust management is also considered. The end goal is to greatly improve the efficiency of attack monitoring and intrusion detection and to increase the resiliency of the future Internet. This is a collaborative exploratory project bringing together researchers from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Arizona State University, and Osaka City University, Japan. All research results will be made available to the scientific community.