Critical Infrastructure Protection has become increasingly important as the Internet becomes part of the national economic and defense infrastrucutre. Our approach uses Cellular Automata abstractions to design robust emergent network structures. This is a 5-year Office of Naval Research CIP/IA University Research initiative starting in May 2001.We explore the interface between mobile code and its host. Trust negotiation is integrated with wrapper technology.
Like an eco-system, a network of diverse hardware and software is more robust. Code mobility in a diverse network requires hardware and software co-adaptation. In addition to this we add a layer of global adaptation to dynamically changing conditions.
Mobile code daemons from ARL are being merged with peer-to-peer networking to create adaptive network services.