Rail Sensor Testbed Program: Active Agents in Containers for Transport Chain Security: Algorithms

Research was conducted on making transported objects (e.g., containers, pallets, and boxes) active participants in their own security. This effort focused on improving transportation security by enabling the objects being transported to become active agents in their own protection. Here, the objects are equipped with sensing and communication capabilities and are able to determine and communicate their sense of security throughout the dynamic transportation chain in a distributed manner. As part of the project, the authors have developed several data mining algorithms to enable intelligent agents to detect changes from their environment state. The authors have also designed algorithms to allow agents to communicate with each other for enhancing safety for the group of agents. Research issues of the designed algorithms have been applied to the Transportation Security SensorNet (TSSN) real transportation chain. The authors have tested all the new algorithms on real sensor data collected from transportation sensor network environments. The results have demonstrated the effectiveness of these algorithms for wireless sensor network security applications and provided useful insights regarding the challenges of the anomaly detection problem for distributed security in challenging environments. In addition the 'lessons learned' from our experiments are documented and a set of requirements for possible future systems were formulated.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ittc.ku.edu/publications/documents/jiang2011_TR-47750-09.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Kansas, Lawrence

  Information and Telecommunication Technology
  Lawrence, KS  United States  66045
• Authors:
  • Jiang, Ruoyi
  • Quanz, Brian
  • Fei, Hongliang
  • Huan, Jun
• Publication Date: 2011-3-14

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Technical Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 15p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Container handling; Containers; Data collection; Freight security; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Security; Sensors; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads; Security and Emergencies; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01341111
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ITTC-FY2011-TR-47750-11
• Contract Numbers: N00014-07-1-1042
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 26 2011 2:43PM