Title :
Lightweight Integrated Authentication for Tactical MANETs
Author :
Tang, Helen ; Salmanian, Mazda
Author_Institution :
Defense R&D Canada, Ottawa, ON
Abstract :
Tactical mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) impose special challenges for designing authentication schemes because of the hostile environments in which they may operate. In this paper, we propose a lightweight integrated authentication (LIA) scheme for tactical MANETs. Our proposal is a lightweight and efficient solution that is suitable for use in tactical MANETs because it has the following features: 1) integration of user-to-device authentication and device-to-network authentication 2) trust-enhanced routing table and 3) distributed revocation authority.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; message authentication; mobile radio; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; device-to-network authentication; distributed revocation authority; lightweight integrated authentication scheme; tactical MANET; tactical mobile ad hoc network; trust-enhanced routing table; user-to-device authentication; Ad hoc networks; Authentication; Computer networks; Cryptography; Information security; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network servers; Proposals; Research and development; Routing; Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs); authentication; routing; security; trust.;
Conference_Titel :
Young Computer Scientists, 2008. ICYCS 2008. The 9th International Conference for
Conference_Location :
Hunan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3398-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3398-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICYCS.2008.340
