Context-Aware Security for Moving Things Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication networks are inadequate for supporting complex arrays of both moving and static nodes, such as those found in the Internet of Moving Things and autonomous vehicle networks, as they fail to provide robust, scalable, and secure connectivity and services anywhere and anytime efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A communication network architecture that is dynamically configurable, comprising a platform capable of operating with various modalities of fixed and mobile nodes, providing context-aware and profile-based security, and utilizing multi-network on-board units (OBUs) to create a mesh of communication links between vehicles and fixed access points, ensuring connectivity and data management across diverse environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If current communication networks are used to support moving and static nodes, then basic connectivity is provided, but robustness, scalability, and security are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic security framework that continuously adapts security parameters based on real-time context information from moving and static nodes. The system dynamically configures security policies, authentication mechanisms, and encryption levels according to the current network state, node mobility patterns, and threat assessments, enabling the network to maintain robustness while adapting to complex and changing environments
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes security parameters such as authentication requirements, encryption strength, and access control policies based on contextual factors including node mobility, location, time of day, and network conditions. This parameter adaptation allows the network to maintain robust security while flexibly supporting diverse moving and static nodes with varying requirements
2Adaptability or versatility
If a dynamically configurable platform is implemented to support various modalities of fixed and mobile nodes, then adaptability and connectivity are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex security management system into modular components including context collection modules, profile management modules, security policy engines, and enforcement points distributed across moving and static nodes. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high adaptability to different environments and node types
Solution Approach 2:
The platform implements universal security mechanisms that function across both moving and static nodes through standardized interfaces and protocols. The same security framework handles diverse node types, communication modes, and environmental conditions, achieving multi-functionality that reduces complexity by avoiding separate specialized systems for different scenarios
3Reliability
If context-aware and profile-based security is implemented, then security is improved, but processing overhead and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing security profiles and context parameters for moving and static nodes before actual communication occurs. Authentication credentials, security policies, and context information are prepared in advance and cached, allowing rapid security enforcement during runtime without real-time computation overhead, thus improving security while managing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by creating and storing security profiles that replicate authentication mechanisms, encryption keys, and policy configurations for different node types. These copied profiles are distributed to relevant nodes and can be quickly instantiated without regenerating security parameters, reducing processing complexity while maintaining strong security through consistent profile-based enforcement
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AI summary
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for providing context-aware and/or profile-based security in a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things).