Towards address privacy in mobile ad hoc networks

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Abstract

Security concerns are an impediment to deploying mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) in hostile environments. This paper proposes and investigates solutions to a new security requirement called address privacy to prevent attackers from ascertaining network addresses of MANET principals. Lack of address privacy is devastating to critical MANET operations. For example, if knowing the network address of a target principal, attackers can easily locate the target by passively monitoring the open wireless channel and then launch a pinpoint attack. We present Swarms, the first solution to address privacy in MANETs. 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.

Identifier

84911164313 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9789639799264]

Publication Title

Qshine 2008 5th International Icst Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality Reliability Security and Robustness

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.QSHINE2008.3839

Grant

CNS-0716302

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