On address privacy in mobile Ad Hoc networks

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2009

Abstract

The network addresses of principals in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) are conventionally assumed to be public information. This may cause devastating consequences for MANETs deployed in hostile environments. For example, attackers can easily locate a target principal based his known network address and then launch a pinpoint attack. This paper identifies address privacy as a new security requirement to prevent attackers from ascertaining network addresses of MANET principals. We further present Swarms, the first solution to satisfying this requirement. Swarms eliminates the conventionally explicit one-on-one mappings between MANET principals and network addresses and allows any two principals to communicate while blind to each other's address. We quantitatively measure the address privacy offered by Swarms via an entropy-based information-theoretic metric. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Identifier

62249186737 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Mobile Networks and Applications

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-008-0142-5

ISSN

1383469X

First Page

188

Last Page

197

Issue

2

Volume

14

Grant

CNS-0716302

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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