Secure Routing and Intrusion Detection in Ad Hoc Networks

Author/Creator ORCID

Date

2005-03-21

Department

Program

Citation of Original Publication

A. Patwardhan , J. Parker , A. Joshi, M. Iorga, T. Karygiannis , Secure Routing and Intrusion Detection in Ad Hoc Networks, Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications , 2005, DOI: 10.1109/PERCOM.2005.38

Rights

This item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.
Public Domain Mark 1.0
This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.

Abstract

Numerous schemes have been proposed for secure routing and Intrusion Detection for ad hoc networks. Yet, little work exists in actually implementing such schemes on small handheld devices. In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept implementation of a secure routing protocol based on AODV over IPv6, further reinforced by a routing protocol independent Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for ad hoc networks. Security features in the routing protocol include mechanisms for non-repudiation and authentication, without relying on the availability of a Certificate Authority (CA) or a Key Distribution Center (KDC). We present the design and implementation details of our system, the practical considerations involved, and how these mechanisms can be used to detect and thwart malicious attacks. We discuss several scenarios where the secure routing and intrusion detection mechanisms isolate and deny network resources to nodes deemed malicious.We also discuss shortcomings in our approach, and conclude with lessons learned and ideas for future work.