1st International ICST Workshop on Satellite Communications

Research Article

Security Architecture for Satellite Services over Cryptographically Heterogeneous Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158319,
        author={Yingli Sheng and Haitham Cruickshank and Martin Moseley and John Ashworth},
        title={Security Architecture for Satellite Services over Cryptographically Heterogeneous Networks},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Satellite Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={SATCOM},
        year={2012},
        month={3},
        keywords={satellite heterogeneous network policy key management mobile network delay tolerant network},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158319}
    }
    
  • Yingli Sheng
    Haitham Cruickshank
    Martin Moseley
    John Ashworth
    Year: 2012
    Security Architecture for Satellite Services over Cryptographically Heterogeneous Networks
    SATCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158319
Yingli Sheng1, Haitham Cruickshank1,*, Martin Moseley2, John Ashworth2
  • 1: University of Surrey
  • 2: EADS Astrium
*Contact email: H.Cruickshank@surrey.ac.uk

Abstract

The rapid growth in the demand for Internet services and many new applications has driven the development of satellite, which are the preferred delivery mechanism due to its wide area coverage, multicasting capacity and speed to deliver affordable future services. However, security has been one of the barriers for satellite services, especially for domains spanning over cryptographically heterogeneous networks. In this paper, a scalable and adaptable security architecture is specified to protect satellite services. Two major issues in the proposed security architecture, key management and policy provisioning, are presented and analyzed. And three scenarios, mobile network, fixed network and Delay Tolerant Network (DTN), are presented, with details on characteristics and security features.