Title :
Secure Anonymous Routing in Clustered Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Author :
Qian, Liejia ; Song, Nannan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Prairie View A&M Univ., TX
Abstract :
Providing security and anonymity to users are critical in wireless ad hoc networks. In this paper, a secure anonymous routing scheme is proposed for clustered wireless ad hoc networks. In the proposed scheme, intra-cluster routing uses the common broadcast channel in wireless networks to provide anonymity, while inter-cluster routing uses a sequence of temporary public keys as the trapdoor information. Symmetric cipher is employed in most part of the proposed scheme to reduce computational complexity and maximize network efficiency. Public key is only used to distribute symmetric keys. Both privacy analysis (including sender anonymity, receiver anonymity and sender-receiver anonymity) and attack analysis show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme against a wide range of strong adversarial attacks.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; broadcast channels; data privacy; public key cryptography; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; attack analysis; broadcast channel; clustered multihop wireless ad hoc networks; privacy analysis; public key technique; secure anonymous routing; Broadcasting; Data security; Internet; Mobile ad hoc networks; Protocols; Public key; Routing; Scalability; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Information Sciences and Systems, 2006 40th Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Princeton, NJ
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0349-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0350-2
DOI :
10.1109/CISS.2006.286396