Copyright © 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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
- References






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