Lightweight Integrated Authentication for Tactical MANETs

Author

Tang, Helen ; Salmanian, Mazda

Author_Institution

Defense R&D Canada, Ottawa, ON

fYear

2008

fDate

18-21 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

2266

Lastpage

2271

Abstract

Tactical mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) impose special challenges for designing authentication schemes because of the hostile environments in which they may operate. In this paper, we propose a lightweight integrated authentication (LIA) scheme for tactical MANETs. Our proposal is a lightweight and efficient solution that is suitable for use in tactical MANETs because it has the following features: 1) integration of user-to-device authentication and device-to-network authentication 2) trust-enhanced routing table and 3) distributed revocation authority.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; message authentication; mobile radio; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; device-to-network authentication; distributed revocation authority; lightweight integrated authentication scheme; tactical MANET; tactical mobile ad hoc network; trust-enhanced routing table; user-to-device authentication; Ad hoc networks; Authentication; Computer networks; Cryptography; Information security; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network servers; Proposals; Research and development; Routing; Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs); authentication; routing; security; trust.;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Young Computer Scientists, 2008. ICYCS 2008. The 9th International Conference for

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3398-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3398-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICYCS.2008.340

Filename

4709325