A clique-based secure admission control scheme for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)

Abstract

Wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) do not have centralized infrastructure and it is difficult to provide authentication services. In this paper, we apply Certificate Graph (CG) and identity-based security in designing an admission control scheme for MANETs. We first use one-hop message exchange to build CG at each mobile node. Then we select maximum clique nodes in CG as distributed Certificate Authorities (CAs). We use identity-based key agreement from pairings to protect each session. Then we prove the security by Canetti–Krawczyk (CK) model-based analysis. We demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of our protocol through computer simulations.