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Wireless Networks
Published in: Wireless Networks 6/2018

04-02-2017

Fast, scalable and secure over-the-air bootstrap of Linux operating systems with Wi-Fi ad hoc networks

Authors: André Zúquete, José Vieira

Published in: Wireless Networks | Issue 6/2018

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Abstract

This article describes and evaluates the performance of DETIboot, a system conceived for securely deploying temporary Linux systems into countless receiving hosts close enough to a Wi-Fi DETIboot server. This system was created with the ultimate goal of installing, in numerous students’ laptops and just-in-time, special Linux distributions for being temporarily used in practical classes. In this document we present an overview of DETIboot, a comprehensive description of the coding used in the broadcast communication and a detailed performance evaluation in a spacious auditorium. This evaluation did not involve security features to reduce the amount of variables influencing the final results. However, previous experiments allow us to extrapolate a maximum of 5% increase in the download time due to security. On average, it took us 50.1 s to download a 225 MiB Slax Linux over 802.11g, taking on average 15% more time than the theoretical lower bound of our setup (43.4 s). The influence of the position of receivers in the auditorium was not prominent.
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Footnotes
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A ramdisk is portion of RAM used as disk; a ramdisk distribution is a distribution that installs itself on such a disk, therefore in a non-permanent way (disappears after a reboot).
 
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Metadata
Title
Fast, scalable and secure over-the-air bootstrap of Linux operating systems with Wi-Fi ad hoc networks
Authors
André Zúquete
José Vieira
Publication date
04-02-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Wireless Networks / Issue 6/2018
Print ISSN: 1022-0038
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8196
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-017-1450-0

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