VESS: a Versatile Extensible Security Suite for MANET routing

Abstract

This paper presents a powerful and versatile security suite for the AODV (Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector) routing protocol. It offers a coverage on common security aspects such as encryption and authentication, and it can be easily modified to work with any distance-vector-based routing for MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Networks). The suite utilizes powerful authentication and user-adjustable encryptions based on digital certificate chaining and popular ciphers such as DES, AES, and RSA. The security strength can be customized to reach a desired balance with the performance of the network. The suite has a highly modular design, which allows additional security strength to be added on top of the existing framework. This attractive feature enables heterogeneous applications to utilize various levels of security routing on the same MANET. The multiple levels of security strengths are careful analyzed. The range of impacts on network performance is also illustrated by simulation, which shows that the strongest security scheme still achieves about 75% of the throughput, while incurs 20-30% additional delay.

Selective Encryption using Natural Language Processing for Text data in Mobile Ad hoc Network

“…Chang et al [6] presents a powerful and versatile security suite for the AODV (Ad-hoc Ondemand Distance Vector) routing protocol. It offers coverage on common security aspects such as encryption and authentication, and it can be easily modified to work with any distance-vector-based routing for MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Networks).…”

CoDE - An Application-Layer Framework for Confidentiality in Distributed Environments

“…Therefore, there must be some results synchronization methods avoiding well known problems like Byzantine failures [3]. Furthermore, depending on the requested and the available confidentiality level, encryption has to be granted [4], and potentially also nonces and key escrow have to be secured in case of an identity-based security approach like the one in [5]. In the previously discussed centralized approach, the design and the granting of all these assumptions are up to the central entity maintaining the service, whereas in this case, this has to be enforced in a collaborative fashion between participating nodes.…”

“…This is achieved through a subdivision and transformation of a secret message into multiple shares following secret sharing schemes, which are then delivered via independent paths to the destination. The exploitation of different levels of security on the same MANET is achieved in [5]. Authors present a security suite covering both security and authentication schemes.…”