| Download | - View accepted manuscript: A Novel Solution for Achieving Anonymity in Wireless Ad Hoc Routing Protocol (PDF, 269 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Boukerche, A.; Search for: El-Khatib, K.; Search for: Xu, Yuefei; Search for: Korba, Larry |
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Ubiquitous Networks (ACM PE-WASUN'2004), held in conjunction with the 7th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, October 4-6, 2004, Venice, Italy |
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| Subject | routing; ad hoc; security; network simulator ns-2; wireless network |
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| Abstract | A mobile ad hoc network consists of mobile nodes that can move freely in an open environment. Communicating nodes in a wireless and mobile ad hoc network usually seek the help of other intermediate nodes to establish communication channels. In such an open environment, malicious intermediate nodes can be a threat to the security and/or anonymity of the exchanged data between the mobile nodes. While data encryption can protect the content exchanged between nodes, routing information may reveal valuable information about end users and their relationships. The main purposes of this paper are to study the possibility of achieving anonymity in ad hoc networks, and propose an anonymous routing protocol, similar to onion routing concept used in wired networks. Our protocol includes a mechanism to establish a trust among mobile nodes while avoiding untrustworthy nodes during the route discovery process. The major objective of our protocol is to allow only trustworthy intermediate nodes to participate in the routing protocol without jeopardizing the anonymity of the communicating nodes. We present our scheme, and report on its performance using an extensive set of simulation set of experiments using ns-2 simulator. Our results indicate clearly that anonymity can be achieved in mobile ad hoc networks, and the additional overhead of our scheme to DSR is reasonably low when compared to a nonsecure DSR ad hoc routing protocol. |
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| Publication date | 2004 |
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| Language | English |
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| NRC number | NRCC 47402 |
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| NPARC number | 8913665 |
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| Record identifier | dfbcb1c9-618f-482e-b2fd-06a52299b422 |
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| Record created | 2009-04-22 |
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| Record modified | 2021-01-05 |
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