A Comprehensive Survey on Cryptography Evaluation in Mobile (MANETs)

Suneetha Bulla, Et Al

doi:10.17762/turcomat.v12i2.2402

Abstract

With the rapid development in network technology new network types based on wireless communication have emerged. A large family of wireless communication networks is the Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). While MANETs mobile devices should be able to connect with each other at any time and place, the vulnerabilities of MANET structure also introduce a wide range of attacks and present new challenges for the design of security mechanism ranging from developing and implementing lightweight cryptographic primitives to designing and analyzing secure protocols. Numerous security solutions and key management schemes such as symmetric and asymmetric cryptography have been used to support MANET environment. This paper conducted survey to gain a quick knowledge of security design demand and cryptography solutions to secure MANET. This survey focused on security schemas and case studies of cryptography techniques on Ad Hoc networks. Finally, conclusions are discussed.

Highlights

Days, there is a massive change in communication technology due to usage of Internet Technology and handheld devices like laptops, smart phones, sensors etc. while transmitting and accessing data from one place to another place
Various authors have contributed their extreme work on this area and this study focused on one-way hash functions, threshold cryptography, public key cryptography, identity-based cryptography, and signatures
Second part of this paper discussed about cryptography and its implementation on MANETS

Summary

Introduction

There is a massive change in communication technology due to usage of Internet Technology and handheld devices like laptops, smart phones, sensors etc. while transmitting and accessing data from one place to another place. Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is an independent set of self-organized communicating devices. If any two mobile nodes are in same transmission range, one act as source and other act as destination data can be transmitted directly from source to destination. This range is defined by the empowering technology via Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Medium Access protocols. Cryptography is a Modern encryption technology it provides security of data midst of routers in Ad Hoc networks. It follows different statistical and mathematical modeling’s of application or algorithms which was designed to provide security for communications.

Security and Cryptography Background

Cryptographic Techniques to Secure MANET

Conclusions and future directions