Welcome to DistTrust 2006 workshop at Barcelona
The DistTrust Workshop will take place on April 28 (Friday), after Infocom 2006 (April 25-27, 2006).Meetings will be hosted at the UPC (http://www.upc.edu/) premises.
This workshop aims at bringing together a number of projects that face similar challenges when implementing security in a context of open, heterogeneous and dynamic networks. These are European Commission funded projects, partly funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Unit, and partly by the ICT for Trust and Security Unit.
The state of the art in this area is centred on static network topologies, while it is clear that this is becoming increasingly dynamic. Mobility of nodes and code, resource sharing, distributed computation and services, ad-hoc networking and opportunistic forwarding, all have in common that they can no longer rely on placing tight perimeters around fixed structures, nor on a central authority that controls access and transactions. Key aspects in the projects mentioned below are the dynamicity of the network and the distributed nature of services. Under these conditions, where the concepts of location and identity are becoming separate, it is no longer possible to assume that one authority would have knowledge of every node or device in the network, let alone be able to guarantee all the actions that device takes when it is used as a resource or provides a service. Four of the projects involved are from the FET proactive initiative Situated and Autonomic Communication (SAC): ANA, BIONETS, CASCADAS and HAGGLE. These work in the area of new paradigms for communication/networking systems that can be characterised as situated (i.e. reacting locally on environment and context changes), autonomously controlled, self-organising, radically distributed, technology independent and scale-free.
Three projects are from the FET proactive initiative Global Computing (GC), namely AEOLUS, MOBIUS and SENSORIA. These projects focus on common characteristics representing a family of potential or actual global computers described by appropriate abstractions. These abstractions can be thought of as "overlay computers", i.e., abstractions that can be implemented on top of global computers to yield enhanced classes of global computers that are programmable and computationally complete in their application domain.
Four projects from the ICT for Trust and Security Unit are also involved. These are SERENITY, FIDIS, UBISEC&SENS and S3MS. In contrary to the other projects, the main focus for these projects is on trust and security aspects, but also in open and dynamic environments.
The goal of the workshop is to foster synergies, avoid duplication, and
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