Anonymous routing protocols: Impact on performance in MANETs

Author

NÁcher, Marga ; Calafate, Carlos T. ; Cano, Juan-Carlos ; Manzoni, Pietro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Tech. Univ. of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

21-23 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Eavesdropping is an important threat in the context of mobile ad-hoc networks due to the use of open air as the transmission medium. As a consequence, some works trying to prevent this threat have been proposed. Some of these proposals focus on the use of anonymous routing protocols. In this paper we analyze two of the most popular: ANODR and MASK. We evaluate their performance through simulation in terms of throughput and routing overhead in order to measure the cost of providing anonymity. Simulation results show that these anonymous routing protocols reduce performance to inefficient levels.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; protocols; telecommunication network routing; ANODR; MANET; MASK; anonymous routing protocols; mobile ad hoc networks; Ad hoc networks; Broadcasting; Computer networks; Cryptography; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Proposals; Protection; Public key; Routing protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Analysis & Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2009. MASCOTS '09. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1526-7539

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4927-9

Electronic_ISBN

1526-7539

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASCOT.2009.5366143

Filename

5366143