Dependability and Security on Wireless Self-Organized Networks

Wireless communication technologies have been improved every day, increasing the dependence of people on distributed systems. Such dependence increases the necessity of guaranteeing dependable and secure services, particularly, for applications related to commercial, financial and medial domains. However, on wireless self-organized network context, providing simultaneously reliability and security is a demanding task due to the network characteristics. This chapter provides an overview of survivability concepts, reviews security threats in wireless self-organized networks (WSONs) and describes existing solutions for survivable service computing on wireless network context. Finally, this chapter presents conclusions and future directions.