Limitations of on demand secure routing protocols

Author

Ramachandran, Prabha ; Yasinsac, Alec

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

10-11 June 2004

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

59

Abstract

Routing in mobile ad hoc networks is an open and active area of research. Recently, many have attempted to add value to routing protocols by improving efficiency and security of these protocols. In this paper, we show that a whole class of routing protocols for dynamic networks is vulnerable to a subtle attack. We illustrate this attack on several well known protocols and describe the fundamental properties of this attack and of the protocols that are vulnerable to it. We also propose potential approaches to overcoming the vulnerability that we address.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile communication; mobile computing; routing protocols; telecommunication security; dynamic source routing; invisible node attack; mobile ad hoc network; on-demand routing; secure routing protocols; Ad hoc networks; Collaborative work; Communication system security; Laboratories; Materials science and technology; Mobile ad hoc networks; Protection; Routing protocols; Wireless communication; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Assurance Workshop, 2004. Proceedings from the Fifth Annual IEEE SMC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8572-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAW.2004.1437797

Filename

1437797