An Authenticated On-Demand Routing Protocol with Key Exchange for Secure MANET

Youngho PARK  Kyung-Hyune RHEE 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E92-D  No.5  pp.810-817
Publication Date: 2009/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information and Communication System Security)
Category: Ad-Hoc/Sensor Networks
Keyword: 
secure ad hoc routing,  authentication,  ID-based key,  key exchange,  DSR, 

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Summary: 
In the meantime, most secure ad hoc routing protocols based on cryptography just have assumed that pair-wise secret keys or public keys were distributed among nodes before running a routing protocol. In this paper, we raise a question about key management related to existing secure routing protocols, and then we propose an authenticated on-demand ad hoc routing protocol with key exchange by applying the ID-based keyed authenticator. In particular, we focus on providing an authentication mechanism to Dynamic Source Routing protocol combined with Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, and then we demonstrate simulated performance evaluations. The main contribution of our work is to provide a concurrent establishment of a route and a session key in a secure manner between source and destination nodes in ad hoc networks.