Tele faculty Krishnamurthy and Tipper are researching how to construct robust and secure mobile ad hoc networks as part of a project entitled "ARSENAL: A cross layer ARchitecture for SEcure resilieNt  tacticAL mobile ad hoc networks”. This project is being funded by the Army Research Office’s Multi-University Research Initiative. ARSENAL is a joint effort of 12 professors at 7 institutions: UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, BYU, University of Utah, University of Pittsburgh and Penn State. The Army Research Office funded this innovative project for a five year period at $6.25 million. The goal of this project is to develop a cross layer architecture that provides comprehensive security and resilience for mobile ad hoc networks. Depending on the services desired, the proposed architecture will be able to adaptively provide the right trade-offs between performance, security and fault-resilience.  Ph.D. students Thaier Hayajneh and Tae-Hoon Kim are providing research assistance for the project.

In a related project, Professor Krishnamurthy is developing methods for coping with jamming attacks in wireless ad hoc and mesh networks as part of a $300,000 NSF grant in collaboration with the University of California, Riverside.