Safeguarding Mutable Fields in AODV Route Discovery Process

Author

Sivakumar, Kulasekaran A. ; Ramkumar, Mahalingam

Author_Institution

Mississippi State Univ., Starkville

fYear

2007

fDate

13-16 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

645

Lastpage

651

Abstract

Assuring cryptographic integrity of mutable fields in any on-demand ad hoc routing protocol is more challenging than that of non mutable fields. We propose an efficient authentication strategy for this purpose, which leverages a proposed broadcast encryption (BE) scheme. We investigate some shortcomings of SAODV, a popular secure extension of the ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) protocol and suggest some modifications to the protocol to overcome the shortcomings. The modifications include proactive maintenance of a secure reliable delivery neighborhood (RDN) by each node and the use of the BE based authentication strategy for mutable fields.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; cryptographic protocols; routing protocols; telecommunication security; ad hoc on-demand distance vector protocol; authentication strategy; broadcast encryption; cryptographic integrity; mutable field safeguarding; on-demand ad hoc routing protocol; proactive maintenance; reliable delivery neighborhood; route discovery process; Authentication; Broadcasting; Computer science; Cryptographic protocols; Cryptography; Information security; Intrusion detection; Maintenance; Mobile ad hoc networks; Routing protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1251-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-2055

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2007.4317890

Filename

4317890