A Survey on Security Issues in Ad Hoc Routing Protocols and their Mitigation Techniques
It addresses security vulnerabilities in MANETs for researchers and practitioners, but is incremental as a survey.
The paper surveys security threats and attacks in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) due to their dynamic topology and lack of infrastructure, summarizing mitigation techniques from existing literature.
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETS) are transient networks of mobile nodes, connected through wireless links, without any fixed infrastructure or central management. Due to the self-configuring nature of these networks, the topology is highly dynamic. This makes the Ad Hoc Routing Protocols in MANETS highly vulnerable to serious security issues. In this paper, we survey the common security threats and attacks and summarize the solutions suggested in the survey to mitigate these security vulnerabilities.