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Authors:
Ehab Zakaria
Haitham Hamza
Imane Saroit
Keywords: MANET; Anonymous communication; Access control; Identity-based cryptography
Abstract:
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are finding ever-increasing applications in both military and civilian systems owing to their self-configuration and self-maintenance capabilities. Communications in battlefields and disaster recovery are other examples of application environments. Many of these applications are security sensitive. As a result, security in MANETs has recently been drawing much attention. The vast majority of existing solutions that provides security services for MANETS does not take into consideration the need for authentic access control mechanism as a first line of defense to ensure that only the eligible nodes are involved. In this work, we propose an anonymous communication scheme that is based on an efficient access control mechanism with authenticated key establishment. Besides service integration offered by this framework, simulations and analysis showed that the proposed solution enhance quality of service (QoS) level compared to the existing approaches that aims to provide only access control or anonymous services separately. With a similar or a lower cost, our integrated approach enhanced MANET security and performance in comparison with other related proposals.
Pages: 27 to 33
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016
Publication date: August 21, 2016
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2326-9286
ISBN: 978-1-61208-503-6
Location: Rome, Italy
Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016