MASR: An Efficient Strong Anonymous Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Pan, Jun ; Li, Jianhua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Security and anonymity are important issues for mobile ad hoc network (MANET) routing protocols especially in hostile environments. The adversary nodes can launch traffic analysis against routing information embedded in routing messages and data packets. In this paper we analyze the limitations of the several existing anonymous routing protocols, then we propose a new efficient anonymous on-demand routing protocol which is called MASR (MANET anonymous secure routing). It is inspired by a combination of DSR, TOR, ANODR and AnonDSR and can overcome the limitations of current anonymous routing protocols. Through analysis and simulation, we demonstrate that MASR has comparable performance with the AODV and DSR routing protocols and also has strong anonymity and security protection.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; routing protocols; telecommunication security; ANODR; AnonDSR; DSR; MANET; TOR; anonymity; anonymous routing protocol; data packets; mobile ad hoc networks; security protection; traffic analysis; Data security; Information analysis; Information security; Mobile ad hoc networks; Performance analysis; Protection; Public key; Public key cryptography; Routing protocols; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4638-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4639-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5301090

Filename

5301090