Title: Multisensor message exchange mechanism

Authors: Cyril Onwubiko

Addresses: Intelligence and Security Assurance, E-Security Group, Research Series, London RM10 7XX, UK

Abstract: With the growing deployment of multisource fusion systems to gather and analyse pieces of attack evidence from myriad heterogeneous |sources|, a requirement is to provide a secure and robust message exchange mechanism (MEM) for their communication. An MEM is described as one that allows message exchange among multiple heterogeneous network sources, based on security spaces. A security space is a lightweight abstract space based on a tuple space that provides security to messages exchanged among the different sources in the network. In this paper, security space|s schematic and semantic representations are provided. Its mathematical formalism, design and security requirements, and application to distributed and federated multisensor environments are explained.

Keywords: data fusion; digital forensics; electronic security; DMEF; intrusion detection message exchange format; middleware; multisensor message exchange; security spaces; tuple space; multiple sensors; message security; sensor fusion; multisensor fusion.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESDF.2008.021456

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2008 Vol.1 No.4, pp.387 - 400

Published online: 27 Nov 2008 *

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