Security challenges in mobile ad hoc networks:a survey
This is an incremental survey that addresses security problems for researchers and practitioners in mobile ad hoc networking.
The paper surveys security challenges in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), analyzing issues such as dynamic topology and self-configuration, and evaluates approaches to defeat attacks based on defined security parameters.
MANET is a kind of Ad hoc network with mobile, wireless nodes. Because of its special characteristics like dynamic topology, hop-by-hop communications and easy and quick setup, MANET faced lots of challenges allegorically routing, security and clustering. The security challenges arise due to MANETs self-configuration and self-maintenance capabilities. In this paper, we present an elaborate view of issues in MANET security. Based on MANETs special characteristics, we define three security parameters for MANET. In addition we divided MANET security into two different aspects and discussed each one in details. A comprehensive analysis in security aspects of MANET and defeating approaches is presented. In addition, defeating approaches against attacks have been evaluated in some important metrics. After analyses and evaluations, future scopes of work have been presented.