Abstract
Ad hoc networks are built on the basis of a communication without infrastructure and major investigations have focused on the routing and autoconfiguration problems. However, there is a little progress in solving the secure autoconfiguration problems in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), which has led to the proliferation of threats given the vulnerabilities of MANETs. It is clear that ad hoc networks have no centralized mechanism for defense against threats, such as a firewall, an intrusion detection system, or a proxy. Therefore, it is necessary that the defense of interests of each of the ad hoc components is the responsibility of each member node. This paper shows the most common threats to ad hoc networks and reviews several proposals that attempt to minimize some of these threats, showing their protection ability and vulnerabilities in light of the threats that might arise.
Highlights
mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) technology is used to immediately provide secure access between multiple mobile nodes without the need for a preset communications infrastructure achieving a multihop architecture
Studies over the authenticity of the nodes entering the MANET during auto-configuration have been minimal, the aim of this paper is to show how they have presented some solutions to this problem and show some of its shortcomings from the perspective of the characteristics to be evaluated for potential threats within the autoconfiguration process
The insertion of new nodes in a MANET during the autoconfiguration process can generate new threats due to the instabilities in the behaviour of these kinds of networks, which would create a lack of trust in the transmission of information through them
Summary
MANET technology is used to immediately provide secure access between multiple mobile nodes without the need for a preset communications infrastructure achieving a multihop architecture. Studies over the authenticity of the nodes entering the MANET during auto-configuration have been minimal, the aim of this paper is to show how they have presented some solutions to this problem and show some of its shortcomings from the perspective of the characteristics to be evaluated for potential threats within the autoconfiguration process. This piece of work, including the introduction, is organized into four sections as follows.
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