Implementation of group member authentication protocol in mobile ad-hoc networks Conference

Asaeda, H, Rahman, M, Manshaei, MH et al. (2006). Implementation of group member authentication protocol in mobile ad-hoc networks . IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, 4 2205-2210. 10.1109/wcnc.2006.1696638

cited authors

  • Asaeda, H; Rahman, M; Manshaei, MH; Fukuzawa, Y

abstract

  • In a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) architecture, there is no pre-existing fixed network infrastructure, and a mobile node in this network sends data packets to a destination node directly or through its neighbor nodes. This situation is of potential security concern since the neighbor nodes cannot be always trusted. In this paper, we design a group member authentication protocol used in a MANET. It aims to allow a set of nodes to legitimately participate in group communication and then distribute a secret group key to the approved nodes to establish secure communication with group members. Our protocol provides knowledge-based group member authentication, which recognizes a list of secret group keys held in a mobile node as the node's group membership. It employs Zero Knowledge Proof and threshold cryptography. We then introduce our actual implementation and evaluate the behavior to ensure its successful deployment. © 2006 IEEE.

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publication date

  • January 1, 2006

published in

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 2205

end page

  • 2210

volume

  • 4