Security in Proactive Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a repetitively self-configuring, mobile wireless node. Routing can takes place proactively (table-driven), reactively (on demand) or in a hybrid manner. This paper, attempts to contribute a discussion on various security issues and various security aspects related to overcome these security issues found in Proactive Mobile Ad Hoc Network routing protocols. This paper also presents a comparison between two proactive routing protocols on various security parameters. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150712

Seguridad en MANETs

Las MANETs (Mobile ad hoc networks) pueden definirse como una gran colección de nodos móviles que conforman una red temporal pero sin la ayuda de ninguna infraestructura de red o access point central. Cada nodo participante de la red actúa al mismo tiempo como host y como router y debe por lo tanto reenviar paquetes para otros nodos. Las características de las MANETs incluyen: topología dinámica, movilidad de los nodos y capacidad de autoorganización. Esta línea de investigación explorará la problemática de seguridad (todavía abierta) para el diseño y desarrollo de protocolos seguros aplicables a estos ambientes de comunicación distribuidos, abiertos e inalámbricos.Eje: Procesamiento distribuido y paraleloRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Evaluation of on-demand routing in mobile ad hoc networks and proposal for a secure routing protocol

Secure routing Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) has emerged as an important MANET research area. Initial work in MANET focused mainly on the problem of providing efficient mechanisms for finding paths in very dynamic networks, without considering the security of the routing process. Because of this, a number of attacks exploit these routing vulnerabilities to manipulate MANETs. In this thesis, we performed an in-depth evaluation and performance analysis of existing MANET Routing protocols, identifying Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) as the most robust (based on throughput, latency and routing overhead) which can be secured with negligible routing efficiency trade-off. We describe security threats, specifically showing their effects on DSR. We proposed a new routing protocol, named Authenticated Source Routing for Ad hoc Networks (ASRAN) which is an out-of-band certification-based, authenticated source routing protocol with modifications to the route acquisition process of DSR to defeat all identified attacks. Simulation studies confirm that ASRAN has a good trade-off balance in reference to the addition of security and routing efficiency