Secure Neighbor Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Neighbor discovery is an important part of many protocols for wireless adhoc networks, including localization and routing. When neighbor discovery fails, communications and protocols performance deteriorate. In networks affected by relay attacks, also known as wormholes, the failure may be more subtle. The wormhole may selectively deny or degrade communications. In this paper we present Mobile Secure Neighbor Discovery (MSND), which offers a measure of protection against wormholes by allowing participating mobile nodes to securely determine if they are neighbors. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to secure neighbor discovery in mobile adhoc networks. MSND leverages concepts of graph rigidity for wormhole detection.We prove security properties of our protocol, and demonstrate its effectiveness through extensive simulations and a real system evaluation employing Epic motes and iRobot robots. 2011 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2011 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems

published proceedings

  • 2011 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems

author list (cited authors)

  • Stoleru, R., Wu, H., & Chenji, H.

citation count

  • 20

complete list of authors

  • Stoleru, R||Wu, H||Chenji, H

publication date

  • October 2011