Title
Fully distributed ECC-based key management for mobile ad hoc networks.
Abstract
Dynamic nature of mobile ad hoc networks combined with their lack of centralized infrastructure make security problem the most challenging issue in such networks. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a secure and efficient key management algorithm, able to satisfying the requirement of such networks and facing their specific characteristics. The proposed algorithm is a fully distributed ID-based system which is built based on elliptic curve cryptography. The main advantage of the proposed algorithm, that gives it the superiority in its field of research, is the improvement of the performance and the security strength together. The proposed algorithm is implemented with much lower communication and computation overhead in comparison with its literature works. It is also able to update the keys while it solves the key escrowing problem. It is analyzed analytically and compared with several recently proposed key management algorithms. The analysis shows the superiority of the proposed algorithm in comparison with others. Furthermore, NS2 simulator is used to do exhaustive simulations. Simulation scenarios are done for large scale networks, to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm and also validate the analytical results. Results show that our algorithm could provide confidentiality, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation with order of magnitude less computation and communication overhead in comparison with former works.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.comnet.2016.12.017
Computer Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Elliptic curve cryptography,Self-certified keys,ID-base key management,Large scale MANETs
Key management,Mobile ad hoc network,Authentication,Confidentiality,Computer science,Computer network,Elliptic curve cryptography,Distributed computing,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
113
C
1389-1286
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
31
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Morteza Gharib1349.34
Zahra Moradlou230.39
Mohammad Ali Doostari371.45
A. Movaghar419732.28