IDENTITY BASED SECURE ROUTING FOR MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS

Abstract

The project “Identity based secure Routing for Mobile Ad hoc Networks” aims at securing the routing process used in AODV (Ad-Hoc On Distance Vector Routing) using the Identity Based Cryptography. Routing in networks, in particular Wireless networks has always been susceptible to various kinds of attacks like Black Hole attack, Worm Hole Attack, Packet Leashes, etc. New protocols or extensions to existing protocols have been proposed for counter-fighting these attacks, e.g. SAODV (Secure AODV), TESLA (Timed efficient stream loss-tolerant authentication) , SEAD (Secure efficient Distance vector routing) , but these systems are either two expensive and incur huge overhead. Secure AODV (SAODV) which is an extension of AODV provides security by the use of RSA based Crypto-System. But the problem is that it incurs a huge overhead over the system for maintaining the certificates and revocation lists, making it less suitable for wire...