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Performance Evaluation
Volume 63, Issue 11, November 2006, Pages 1094-1109
Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
 
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Performance evaluation of an anonymity providing protocol for wireless ad hoc networksstar, open

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Azzedine Boukerchea, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Khalil El-Khatiba, c, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Li Xua, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Larry Korbab, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aPARADISE Research Laboratory, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada

bNational Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada

cThe University of Western Ontario, London, Canada


Available online 1 August 2006.

Abstract

Malicious nodes in a mobile and wireless ad hoc network can be a threat to the security and/or anonymity of the exchanged data. While data encryption can protect the content exchanged between nodes, routing information may reveal the identities of communicating nodes and their relationships. This paper describes our effort to provide anonymous communication services in mobile and wireless ad hoc networks and proposes an anonymous routing protocol. 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 first present our scheme, and then report on its performance using an extensive set of simulation experiments using an ns-2 simulator. Compared to the non-secure DSR ad hoc routing protocol, our results indicate clearly that anonymity can be achieved in mobile ad hoc networks, and the additional overhead of our scheme is reasonably low.

Keywords: Performance evaluation; Wireless security; Wireless ad hoc networ; Ad hoc network security

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Related work
2.1. Privacy and anonymity over the internet
2.2. Secure routing protocols for ad hoc networks
2.3. Privacy and anonymity in ad hoc networks
3. Trust management system
3.1. Community management
3.2. Community key management
3.3. Identification of nodes’ malicious behavior
3.4. Trust-based distributed route selection scheme
4. Secure distributed anonymous routing protocol (SDAR)
4.1. Overview
4.2. Assumptions and definitions
4.3. Path discovery phase
4.4. Illustrative example
4.5. Path reverse phase
4.6. Data transfer phase
5. Simulation experiments
5.1. SDAR and DSR — a comparison
5.2. Overhead of the trust management system
5.3. The effect of the change in the percentage of malicious nodes on SDAR
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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star, openThis work was supported by the Canada Research Chair program, NSERC, Canada Foundation for Innovation Funds, and OIT/Distinguished Researcher Award.


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Performance Evaluation
Volume 63, Issue 11, November 2006, Pages 1094-1109
Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
 
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