Paper 2006/328 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2006/328 ↗
Anonymous Secure Communication in Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Abstract
The main characteristic of a mobile ad-hoc network is its infrastructure-less, highly dynamic topology, which is subject to malicious traffic analysis. Malicious intermediate nodes in wireless mobile ad-hoc networks are a threat concerning security as well as anonymity of exchanged information. To protect anonymity and achieve security of nodes in mobile ad-hoc networks, an anonymous on-demand routing protocol, termed RIOMO, is proposed. For this purpose, pseudo IDs of the nodes are generated considering Pairing-based Cryptography. Nodes can generate their own pseudo IDs independently. As a result RIOMO reduces pseudo IDs maintenance costs. Only trust-worthy nodes are allowed to take part in routing to discover a route. To ensure trustiness each node has to make authentication to its neighbors through an anonymous authentication process. Thus RIOMO safely communicates between nodes without disclosing node identities; it also provides different desirable anonymous properties such as identity privacy, location privacy, route anonymity, and robustness against several attacks.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2006-09-28: last updated
- 2006-09-28: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2006/328
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/328,
author = {Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman and Atsuo Inomata and Takeshi Okamoto and Masahiro Mambo and Eiji Okamoto},
title = {Anonymous Secure Communication in Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2006/328},
year = {2006},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/328}
}