Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are highly vulnerable to attacks due to the open medium, dynamically changing network topology, cooperative algorithms, lack of centralized monitoring and management point, and lack of a clear line of defense. Security is as important in ad hoc networks as it is in more traditional networks like the Internet. Security flaws of routing protocol may cause severe problems under ad hoc network. In this paper we briefly present the most popular on-demand routing protocol DSR and potential security problems of DSR. This paper analyzes security requirements for ad hoc routing protocols and review of the solutions provided for security problems such as ARIADNE, ARAN and CONFIDANT

Download PDF

References

1. Dave B. Johnson and David A. Maltz. The dynamic source routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. Internet Draft, Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Working Group, IETF, October 1999.
2. L. Zhou and Z. J. Haas. Securing ad hoc networks. IEEE Network Magazine, 13(6):24–30, November/December 1999.
3. ] S. Marti, T. J. Giuli, K. Lai, and M. Baker. Mitigating routing misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks. In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, pages 255–265, 2000.
4. K. Sanzgiri, B. Dahill, B.N. Levine, C. Shields and E.M. Royer, “A Secure Routing Protocol for Ad hoc Networks”, Proc. 10th IEEE Int’l. Conf. Network Protocols (ICNP’02), IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 78-87.
5. J.-P. HuBaux, L. Buttyan, and S. Capkun. The quest for security in mobile ad hoc networks. In Proc. ACM MOBICOM, Oct. 2001.
6. J. Kong et al. Providing robust and ubiquitous security support for mobile ad-hoc networks. In Proc. IEEE ICNP, pages 251–260, 2001.
7. S. Yi, P. Naldurg, and R. Kravets. Security-aware ad hoc routing for wireless networks. In Proc. ACM Mobihoc, 2001.
8. P. Papadimitratos and Z. J. Haas. Secure routing for mobile ad hoc networks. SCS Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS 2002), Jan 2002.
9. Y. C. Hu, A. Perrig, and D. Johnson. Ariadne: A secure on-demand routing protocol for ad hoc networks. Technical Report TR01-383, Rice University, Dec. 2001.
10. A. Perrig, R. Canetti, D. Song, and D. Tygar. Efficient and secure source authentication for multicast. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’01), Feb. 2001.
11. S. Buchegger, and J.-Y. Le Boudec, “Performance Analysis of the CONFIDANT Protocol (Cooperation Of Nodes: Fairness In Dynamic Ad hoc NeTworks),” Proc. 3rd Symp. Mobile Ad hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2002), ACM Press, 2002, pp. 226-236.

Back