A Scalable and Secure Position-Based Routing Protocols for Ad-Hoc Networks

Abstract

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) are becoming increasingly popular as more and more mobile devices find their way to the public. A crucial problem in Ad-Hoc networks is finding an efficient route between a source and a destination. Due to MANET's inherent characteristics, secure routing may be one of the most difficult areas to tackle because opponents can add themselves to a MANET using the existing common routing protocols. Hence, this paper proposed a new model of routing protocol called ARANz, which is an extension of the original Authenticated Routing for Ad-Hoc Networks (ARAN). Apart from the authentication methods adopted from ARAN, ARANz aims to increase security, achieve robustness and solve the single point of failure and attack problems by introducing multiple Local Certificate Authority servers. Moreover, by dealing with the network as zones and using restricted directional flooding, our new model will exhibit better scalability and performance. An overview and a qualitative comparison between ARANz and some existing Ad-Hoc routing protocols is presented in this paper.

A Survey of Different VANET Routing Protocols

“…Although the route-finding process takes longer because of these protocols, there is less control message overflow. AODV ("Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector") routing and AODV+PG routing is an illustrations of a reactive protocol [116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124] .…”

A more secure and scalable routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

“…This paper is an extension of our work in . A qualitative comparison among Ad Hoc On‐demand Distance Vector (AODV) , ARAN and ARANz protocols have been presented in .…”

“…This paper is an extension of our work in . A qualitative comparison among Ad Hoc On‐demand Distance Vector (AODV) , ARAN and ARANz protocols have been presented in . This paper, on the contrary, provides detailed discussions of the new protocol ARANz, security analysis of both protocols (ARAN and ARANz), as well as simulated network performance evaluation and comparison among AODV, ARAN and ARANz protocols.…”

Towards trusted and secure communications in a vehicular environment

“…Cryptographic-based routing relies on the security of cryptography to protect the In this thesis, we focus on trust-based routing and refer the readers to [6,48,49] for more details on cryptographic-based routing. and even take action to punish an untrustworthy node if necessary.…”