Publish/subscribe scheme for content centric MANETs

Abstract

It is allowed that data of the content producer is cached anywhere in Content Centric MANET (CCMANET). This scheme decoupling of data from the data source make traditional end-end authentication transmission unavailable in CCMANET. So, it is a challenge how to ensure content publishing or subscribing only by legitimate users. In this paper, we firstly design a new Yaksha system on Elliptic Curve (EC-Yaksha), and then a secure Content Publish/Subscribe System based on EC-Yaksha (ECY-CPS) for CCMANET is proposed. In ECY-CPS, EC-Yaksha server manages joining or leaving of network users and distributes "license" only to legitimate user for content publishing or subscribing. Such, it is guaranteed that only the legitimate users can publish content to network or access content cached in network. In addition, using of the license can efficiently defend common attacks such as the interest flooding and the content pollution etc. Finally, we prove security properties of ECY-CPS in PCL and make a simple comparison between our system and the related solution.

CCN: A novel energy efficient greedy routing protocol for green computing

“…Guo et al proposed EC‐Yaksha scheme, then provides secure publish subscribe system ECY‐CPS for CCMANET. EC‐Yaksha is responsible of providing license to the legitimate content publisher and consumer.…”

Privacy-aware transmission scheme based on homomorphic proxy re-encryption for NDN

“…In Guo et al (2016), based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC; Koblitz, 1987), that maybe provide same security strength for a far shorter key and reduce processing overhead compared with RSA, firstly proposed a new Yaksha system and named it as EC-Yaksha system. And then, ECY-CPS (content publish/subscribe system on EC-Yaksha) is developed.…”

“…Aiming at security problems in CCN/NDN, secure content delivery mechanisms are proposed in Wood and Uzun (2014), Misra et al (2013) and Guo et al (2016). These schemes can be applied in different environments, and they can ensure that only a legitimate network user can get content from the network or publish content to the network.…”