Sensor Network-Centric Security

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Sensor Network-Centric Security
Motivation

• We live in a world where
• Civilian structures are terrorist targets
• Critical infrastructure remains vulnerable to
  attack
• Convoys and troops are attacked regularly
• Borders are porous
• The common theme we need to secure far more than
  defense installations
• The challenge is for us to respond in a reliable,
  scalable, and cost-effective manner

• Human-, computer-, and communications-centric
  intelligence is not enough
• We will never have enough people in all the
  right places
• Computer centers are too far away for real-time
  security
• Electronic signals intelligence requires
  electronic comms
• What is needed ?
• Automation Get humans out of the loop
• Distribution Put computers in the field
• Connection Between the real-world and computers

Applications of National Interest
Peter Guinta, www.staugustine.com
Securing Porous Borders Against Illegal Crossings
Securing Troops from Improvised Explosive
Devices and Unprotected Flank Threats
Benefits of Network-Centric Orientation
State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges

• Today we have
• Medium scale networks (100 nodes)
• Customized system configuration and integration
• Human-in-the-loop operation over period of months
• Tomorrow can have
• Large-scaling networks (10,000 100,000 nodes)
• Off-the-shelf, reusable system composition
• Autonomic (unattended) operation over period of
  years

• Coverage Millions of eyes and ears give
  unprecedented physical intelligence
• Timeliness Fusion analysis of diverse
  intelligence in real-time
• Detail Can zoom-in and zoom-out over regions of
  interest
• Redundancy Many sensors can fail without
  adversely affecting the systems performance
• Force Multiplier Fewer people can monitor
  increasingly larger regions with increasing
  levels of detail

Prabal Dutta ? Sandip Bapat ? Prof. Anish Arora