A Survey of Secure Routing in Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Wang, Dongbin ; Hu, Mingzeng ; Zhi, Hui

Author_Institution

Res. Center of Comput. Network & Inf. Security Technol., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin

fYear

2008

fDate

20-22 July 2008

Firstpage

482

Lastpage

486

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring network that is formed automatically via wireless links by a collection of mobile nodes without the help of a fixed infrastructure or centralized management. The mobile nodes forward packets for each other, allowing communication among nodes outside wireless transmission range hop by hop. Due to dynamic infrastructure-less nature and lack of centralized monitoring points, the ad hoc networks are vulnerable to attacks. Attacks on ad hoc network routing protocols disrupt network performance and reliability. This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of attacks and secure routing. It first analyzes the reason that ad hoc network is vulnerable to attacks. Then it presents the well known attacks and the popular secure protocols.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; routing protocols; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication security; MANET; mobile ad hoc network; network performance; network reliability; routing protocols; Ad hoc networks; Communication system security; Information security; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Network topology; Protocols; Routing; Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; secure routing; security attacks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web-Age Information Management, 2008. WAIM '08. The Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhangjiajie Hunan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3185-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3185-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAIM.2008.79

Filename

4597054