An Anonymous Routing Protocol with the Local-Repair Mechanism for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

7-2006

Abstract

In this paper, we first define the requirements on anonymity and security properties of the routing protocol in mobile ad hoc networks, and then propose a new anonymous routing protocol with the local-repair mechanism. Detailed analysis shows that our protocol achieves both anonymity and security properties defined. A major challenge in designing anonymous routing protocols is to reduce computation and communication costs. To overcome this challenge, our protocol is design to require neither asymmetric nor symmetric encryption/decryption while updating the flooding route requests; more importantly, once a route is broken, instead of re-launching a new costly flooding route discovery process like previous work, our protocol provides a local-repair mechanism to fix broken parts of a route without compromising anonymity

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Cybersecurity

Publication

2006 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks SECON: Reston, Virginia, 25-28 September: Proceedings

First Page

70

Last Page

79

ISBN

9781424406265

Identifier

10.1109/SAHCN.2006.288411

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/SAHCN.2006.288411

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