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Overview
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Large scale proliferation of wireless technology coupled with the increasingly hostile information security landscape creates a serious need for effective security measures. The fundamental broadcast nature of wireless data transmission aggravates the situation by introducing multiple avenues for attack and penetration into a network. While several established protection mechanisms such as cryptography based techniques and wireless intrusion prevention systems exist, each method has its own weaknesses and is susceptible to failure under different circumstances. Drexel researchers have devised a novel device authentication scheme that utilizes the capabilities of reconfigurable antennae to provide a robust additional layer of security against attacks that are based on spoofing transmitter identities, as well as man-in-the-middle attacks. This method shows marked improvement in intruder detection rates, as well as providing a precise guideline on how to choose a reconfigurable antenna and the number of modes in order to achieve the required level performance in a given environment.
APPLICATIONS
TITLE: Applications
Device authentication in wireless network security
ADVANTAGES
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Effectiveness: high intruder detection rates at low false alarm rates. It has been shown that the effectiveness of the device fingerprint can be increased significantly with the addition of extra antenna modes.
Security: Enforcing security at the lowest layer provides a robust extra level of security and helps the upper level layers to better handle spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Efficiency: Reconfigurable antennas are mainly incorporated in wireless devices for their ability to increase spectral efficiency. Applying them for security provides meaningful additional returns on the extra costs incurred in incorporating such antennas.
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IP STATUS
Intellectual Property and Development Status
United States Issued Patent- 9,560,073
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United States Patent Pending- 15/390,134
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PUBLICATIONS
References
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Prathaban Mookiah and Kapil R. Dandekar, “A Reconfigurable Antenna-Based Solution for Stationary Device Authentication in Wireless Networks,” International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2012, Article ID 545783, 11 pages, 2012
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/2012/545783/
P. Mookiah, J.M. Walsh, R. Greenstadt and K.R. Dandekar, 'Reconfigurable Antenna Based Intrusion Detection in Wireless Networks', International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Special Issue on Smart and Reconfigurable Antenna Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks), 2013.
Commercialization Opportunities
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Contact Information
Robert B. McGrath, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Vice Provost
Office of Technology Commercialization
Drexel University
3180 Chestnut Street, Ste. 104
The Left Bank
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-895-0303
E-mail: RBM26@drexel.edu
For Technical Information:
Kapil Dandekar, PhD
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Engineering
3141 Chestnut St – 7-209
Phone: 215-895-2004
Email: dandekar@coe.drexel.edu