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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Efficient Protection of Mobile Devices by Cross Layer Interaction of Firewall Approaches
Authors : Peter Langendoerfer, Martin Lehmann, Krzysztof Piotrowski
Published in: Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this paper we discuss IP layer packet filtering and an application level gateway approach used to secure handheld devices when providing and using web services. We propose a firewall management plane as a means for cross layer interaction. In our approach the application level gateway updates the IP layer firewall rules based on its knowledge about whether or not a certain source is sending malicious packets. We show that such a cross layer interaction can significantly decrease the CPU load in case of attacks, i.e., if many malicious packets arrive at the handheld device. Our measurement results show that the additional overhead for IP layer filtering is less than 10 per cent, if the number of applied rule sets is less than 200. In addition our cross layer approach can reduce the CPU load caused by the application layer gateway by about 10 up to 30 per cent.