SECAN-Lab

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The SECAN-LAB is the "Interoperability Laboratory for Security in Ad-Hoc Networks" of the University of Luxembourg[1].

In the SECAN-LAB the research is targeted (as its name indicates) towards the area of interoperability- and security-aspects of spontaneously created and self-organized wireless networks (MANETs = Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks).

The SECAN-Lab aims research in the field of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with the following targets:

• Creating cooperation between devices (0-hop-distance, n-hop-distance) on basis of trust, where security fails
• Creating mechanism for interoperability of 1:1-communications.
• Find a strategy to route information through the network, independent to its size (no flooding, no global view of the net).
• Find a strategy to route information through the network, resistant to a certain amount of malicious and unfair participants, by ignoring these participants and with the creation of redundancy.
• Find a strategy to route information through the network, which still works when the wireless network has one or several links to a wired LAN.
• Creating globally unique identifiers which may help to address devices and to find routes.

The SECAN-Lab sees its focus beside theoretical analysis and development of solutions also as a laboratory of practical experiences with newest mobile devices and technologies, especially for securing 1:1-communications in n-hop-distance.