MASK: Anonymous on-demand routing in mobile Ad Hoc networks

Yanchao Zhang; Wei Liu; Wenjing Lou; Yuguang Fang

doi:10.1109/TWC.2006.1687761

MASK: Anonymous on-demand routing in mobile Ad Hoc networks

Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, Yuguang Fang

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Abstract

The shared wireless medium of mobile ad hoc networks facilitates passive, adversarial eavesdropping on data communications whereby adversaries can launch various devastating attacks on the target network. To thwart passive eavesdropping and the resulting attacks, we propose a novel anonymous on-demand routing protocol, termed MASK, which can accomplish both MAC-layer and network-layer communications without disclosing real IDs of the participating nodes under a rather strong adversary model. MASK offers the anonymity of senders, receivers, and sender-receiver relationships in addition to node unlocatability and untrackability and end-to-end flow untraceability. It is also resistant to a wide range of attacks. Moreover, MASK preserves the high routing efficiency as compared to previous proposals. Detailed simulation studies have shown that MASK is highly effective and efficient.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	1687761
Pages (from-to)	2376-2385
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume	5
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2006.1687761
State	Published - Sep 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Anonymity
Eavesdropping
Mobile ad hoc networks
Routing
Security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Applied Mathematics

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