摘要:
A method and apparatus for fragmenting and reassembling IKE protocol data packets that exceed a Maximum Transmission Unit is provided. A transmitting node determines whether to fragment IKE data depending on whether the receiving node has the capability to receive and reassemble fragmented data packets. The transmitting node detects whether fragmentation is appropriate and then intercepts and fragments appropriate IKE payloads for transmission over a network. The invention further includes a method and apparatus for reassembling fragmented IKE payloads. The receiving node discards certain packets according to a set of predetermined rules that are designed to prevent denial of service attacks and other similar attacks. No modification is required to the existing IKE protocol or to other lower level networking protocols.
摘要:
A firewall acts as a transparent gateway to a server within a private network by initiating an unsolicited challenge to a client to provide authentication credentials. After receiving the client's credentials, the firewall verifies the authentication credentials and establishes a secure channel for accessing the server. Data destined for the server from the client may be forwarded through the firewall using the secure channel. The firewall may sign, or otherwise indicate that data forwarded to the server is from a client that the firewall has authenticated. The firewall also may provide some level of authentication to the client. While connected to the server, the client may access other servers external to the private network without having the data associated with the other servers pass through the private network. The firewall reduces configuration information that a client otherwise must maintain to access various private network servers.
摘要:
A method for use in a peer-to-peer communication system to ensure valid connections are made in a secure manner includes the steps of receiving an address record for a peer node which includes an ID certificate. The ID certificate is validated and checked to verify that the ID certificate has not expired. Further, the method determines if the node from whom the address record was received is to be trusted, and the number of instances of the IP address included in the certificate is already stored in cache. When the foregoing are completed successfully, i.e. the certificate is valid, not expired, has been supplied by a trusted neighbor, and does not point to an IP address that already exists for different ID's multiple times, the method opportunistically verifies ownership of the ID certificate at the peer node's IP address. That is, the verification of ownership only occurs when the advertiser of the ID is the owner of that ID (or when the ID is to be used). If any of the above cannot be completed successfully, the address record is discarded.
摘要:
A system for signaling an application when a requested data rate and Quality of Service cannot be achieved using OFDM wireless data transmission, and the application proceeds by either renegotiating QoS and data rate, or waiting until they requested rate and QoS are met.
摘要:
A multiuser scheme allowing for a number of users, sets of user, or carriers to share one or more channels is provided. In the invention, the available channel bandwidth is subdivided into a number of equal-bandwidth subchannels according to standard OFDM practice. The transmitter is informed by an application that it needs to transmit data a particular rate. The transmitter determines the minimum number of subchannels and maximum energy (or noise) threshold for each subchannel necessary to achieve that data rate and selects a set of subchannels matching those requirements. The subchannels need not be contiguous in the spectrum or belong to the same channel. Once the transmitter has selected the required number of subchannels, it begins transmitting simultaneously on those subchannels across the entire bandwidth used by those subchannels.
摘要:
Systems and methods are provided for modularly constructing a software defined radio (“SDR”). Given an SDR kernel (i.e., a potentially platform-neutral definition of digital signal processing functionality and control operations necessary to implement the core portion of a software defined radio implementing a particular radio standard), an optional description of governmental regulations for a particular locality, and an interface harness providing the necessary components for interfacing to specific communication channels and devices (including SDR hardware components), an SDR factory component performs a process of constructing an SDR software component for implementing a particular radio standard on a particular host. The SDR software component may additionally construct components which restrict the operation of the resulting SDR software component. The SDR kernel may be protected by one or more digital rights management (“DRM”) policies which may be enforced both at the time the SDR software component is constructed and while it is operating.
摘要:
A method of discovering a community relay node within a network community wherein the community relay node is operatively coupled to an access-protected client and adapted to facilitate communication between the access-protected client and a requesting client, includes receiving a request message from a requesting client relating to a request for a community relay node, associating the request message with a serverless name resolution protocol name, selecting a community relay node from among a list of community relay nodes based on the serverless name resolution protocol name, wherein the list of community relay nodes comprises at least one internet protocol address associated with a community relay node, and returning an internet protocol address of the selected community relay node to the requesting client.
摘要:
A method is provided for a host node in a computer network to determine its coordinates in a d-dimensional network space, comprising discovering an address of a peer node in the network, measuring network latency between the host node and the peer node, determining whether network latency has been measured for at least d+1 peer nodes, where, if network latency has not been measured for at least d+1 peer nodes, estimating the network coordinates of the host node, and where, if network latency has been measured for at least d+1 peer nodes, calculating the network coordinates of the host node using d+1 measured latencies.
摘要:
Malicious network node activity and, in particular, denial of service attacks, may be mitigated by one or more practical mitigation mechanisms and mitigation mechanism combinations. Suitable protocol messages may be challenged with a challenge probe. A response to the challenge probe may be utilized to determine if received protocol messages are illegitimate, that is, originated by a malicious network node. Received protocol messages may be classified as questionable protocol messages. For efficiency, protocol message challenges may be limited to protocol message classified as questionable. A sequence number limit may be calculated as a function of receive window size. Transmission control protocol messages may be determined to be illegitimate by comparing the acknowledgement number field with the calculated sequence number limit. Randomized selection of source port numbers for transmission control protocol connections may also mitigate malicious network node activity by resulting in legitimate protocol message field values that are less predictable.
摘要:
A method of generating a call sign. A method of generating a call sign comprising determining a distinguished qualifier, finding a distinguished salt, and hashing the distinguished salt with the distinguished qualifier.