NDLI: A multipath ad hoc routing approach to combat wireless link insecurity

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lee, C.K.-L. Xiao-Hui Lin Yu-Kwong Kwok
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., China (Lee, C.K.-L.; Xiao-Hui Lin; Yu-Kwong Kwok)
Abstract	As wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies proliferate, it is becoming common that ad hoc networks, in which mobile devices communicate via temporary links, are built using WLAN products. In the IEEE 802.11b standard, the wired equivalent privacy (WEP) scheme is used as the only measure to enhance data confidentiality against eavesdropping. However, owing to well known pitfalls in initialization vector (IV) attachment in the ciphertext, the underlying 40-bit RC4 encryption mechanism in WEP is unsafe regardless of the key size. On the other hand, solutions involving replacement of RC4 by another cipher are not attractive because that may lead to reconstruction of the whole system and result in high cost as well as redevelopment of the products. In order to enhance the security on the existing development efforts, we propose a novel multipath routing approach to combat the link insecurity problem at a higher protocol layer. This approach does not require the application to use sophisticated encryption technologies that may be too heavy burdens for mobile devices. Based on our suggested confidentiality measurement model, we find that our proposed multipath ad hoc routing technique called secure multipath source routing (SMSR), is highly effective.
Starting Page	448
Ending Page	452
File Size	445945
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780378024
DOI	10.1109/ICC.2003.1204217
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-05-11
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Cryptography Data security Routing protocols Bandwidth Costs Ad hoc networks Hazards
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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