Literature Survey of Security Enhancement in MANET Routing Protocols of WLANs

Piyush Vyas, Neeraj Arora, Manish Purohit, Ajay Rupani

MANET, Ad-hoc Network, ARIADNE , CONFIDANT, Secure routing protocols.

A Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is an autonomous collection of mobile users that communicate over relatively bandwidth constrained wireless links. One of the main issues in such networks is performance- in a dynamically changing topology; the nodes are expected to be power-aware due to the bandwidth constrained network. Another issue in such networks is security - since every node participates in the operation of the network equally, malicious nodes are difficult to detect. There are several applications of mobile ad hoc networks such as disaster recovery operations, battle field communications, etc. The most active research area under MANET routing protocol is security. MANETs have certain unique characteristics that make them vulnerable to several types of attacks. Since they are deployed an open environment where all nodes co-operate in forwarding the packets in the network, malicious nodes are difficult to detect.

10.22161/ijaers/3.12.46