Observable Non-Sybil Quorums Construction in One-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.

D. Mónica, J. Leitão, L. Rodrigues, and C. Ribeiro.

Selected sections of this report were published in the Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Chicago, Illinois, USA, June, 2010.

Abstract

The Sybil Attack is a serious threat to the secure and dependable operation of wireless ad hoc networks. This paper proposes an algorithm to provide each correct node in an one-hop wireless network with a quorum of non-Sybil identities from the neighbourhood. The quorums provided to different correct nodes may differ, but their intersection is composed by a majority of correct identities, with an arbitrarily close to 1 probability. Therefore, the quorums may be used for different purposes, such as voting. The algorithm is based on the combination of different resource tests, to efficiently detect (and exclude) Sybil identities.

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Luís Rodrigues