NetSAID: Network Sensing, Assessment, and Intrusion Detection Navy SBIR FY2012.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2012.2 Topic No.: N122-150 Topic Title: NetSAID: Network Sensing, Assessment, and Intrusion Detection Proposal No.: N122-150-0936 Firm: Intelligent Automation, Inc. 15400 Calhoun Drive Suite 400 Rockville, Maryland 20855 Contact: Renato Levy Phone: (301) 294-5241 Web Site: www.i-a-i.com Abstract: Emerging portable software defined radio (SDR) technology has great potential to improve the communication capability of dismounted and Special Forces personnel, as it can quickly acquire the operational information in a hostile environment, and adapt to it based on spectrum needs and available resources. The major challenge lies in the following aspects: effectiveness of spectrum sensing, network identification, effective network assessment, advanced security mechanisms, and spectrum adaptation. However, most of the existing research focuses on the enabling technologies such as spectrum sensing and adaption, but pays less attention to other aspects. Moreover, the current development is still in its early stage and demands further investigation. In addition, to support diverse spectrum of mission requirements and needs, all five aspects should be fully leveraged and equally emphasized. To address this critical need, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) proposes to develop a dynamic Network Sensing, Assessment, and Intrusion Detection (NetSAID) system on portable SDR platforms to enable the dismounted and Special Forces personnel to rapidly adapt to hostile environments and acquire relevant operational information. The proposed approach will significantly improve the reliable and secure access to battlefield networks, as well as the enhanced support for situation awareness. Benefits: The proposed sensing, monitoring and intrusion detection approach has tremendous potential to greatly enhanced survivability for the war-fighters. Given the GIG vision, such heterogeneous and dynamic wireless networks will be common, and the developed cognitive networking application for portable SDR system can be adopted in a wide range of military communication applications for enhanced networking capabilities for dismounted soldiers. It can be applied to various military networks potentially supporting a number of major programs such as Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), Future Combat System (FCS), etc. In particular, IAI will work with General Dynamics (GD) and BAE Systems to transition the advanced networking and SDR capabilities to various DOD and NASA programs including JTRS HMS network applications and space based communications networking applications. The commercial drive for reliable communication is also increasing due to the increasing popularity of wireless network technologies. The potential commercial applications include first responders, commercial cognitive radios and cognitive radio networks, wireless sensor/ad hoc networks and wireless mesh networks where there exist both the infrastructure and the more mobile "edge" networks. The size of the market is quite large and may grow rapidly with the commercial demand for network reliability and availability. Return