SECURE AD-HOC ROUTING THROUGH A-CODES

Giovanni Schmid, Francesco Rossi

2011

Abstract

Wireless ad-hoc networks are very attractive in several application domains, but the very nature of these networks and their cost objectives pose big security challenges, perhaps making them the most difficult networking environments to secure. A particular challenging issue is that of secure routing. In this work we propose to get secure routing for such networks through a special coding technique at the physical layer of radio communication channels. This approach has the main advantage of being applicable to any routing protocol, without requiring modifications to the protocol itself, but with a suitable key management. We illustrate it for the concrete case of AODV, the standard routing protocol for Low-data-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs). The resulting analysis seems to indicate that such approach is very promising for LR-WPANs, both in term of performance and energy efficiency.

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Schmid G. and Rossi F. (2011). SECURE AD-HOC ROUTING THROUGH A-CODES . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8425-48-5, pages 151-156. DOI: 10.5220/0003313701510156


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@conference{peccs11,
author={Giovanni Schmid and Francesco Rossi},
title={SECURE AD-HOC ROUTING THROUGH A-CODES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2011},
pages={151-156},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003313701510156},
isbn={978-989-8425-48-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - SECURE AD-HOC ROUTING THROUGH A-CODES
SN - 978-989-8425-48-5
AU - Schmid G.
AU - Rossi F.
PY - 2011
SP - 151
EP - 156
DO - 10.5220/0003313701510156