SPREAD: Improving network security by multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2009

Abstract

We propose and investigate the SPREAD scheme as a complementary mechanism to enhance secure data delivery in a mobile ad hoc network. The basic idea is to transform a secret message into multiple shares, and then deliver the shares via multiple paths to the destination so that even if a certain number of message shares are compromised, the secret message as a whole is not compromised. We present the overall system architecture and discuss three major design issues: the mathematical model for the generation and reconstruction of the secret message shares, the optimal allocation of the message shares onto multiple paths in terms of security, and the multipath discovery techniques in a mobile ad hoc network. Our extensive simulation results justify the feasibility and the effectiveness of the SPREAD approach. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Identifier

60049091288 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Wireless Networks

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-007-0039-4

ISSN

10220038

First Page

279

Last Page

294

Issue

3

Volume

15

Grant

0626601

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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