Challenges in Mobile Networking and Information Assurance

Summary form only given. The author presents some of the key challenges the Department of Defense faces in mobile networking and information assurance. In mobile networking, episodic connectivity, a variety of waveforms, changing topology, and scarce bandwidth presents a number of challenges in mapping currently available commercial technologies to the mobile ad hoc networking environment. Challenges in information assurance include being able to design self-defending networks, robust defenses, situational awareness utilities, self-monitoring, self-evolving software, trust-based dynamic credentialing, and traceback and attribution tools