Performance Evaluation of Anonymous Routing Protocols in Mobile Adhoc Networks.pdfVIP

1 Performance Evaluation of Anonymous Routing Protocols in MANETs Jun Liu , Jiejun Kong , Xiaoyan Hong , Mario Gerla Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science University of Alabama University of California Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Los Angeles, CA 90095 jliu,hxy @ jkong,gerla @ Abstract— possible. Under such an attack model, anonymity and location Mobile ad hoc networks require anonymous communications privacy guarantees for the deployed ad hoc networks are in order to thwart new wireless passive attacks; and to protect critical, otherwise the entire mission may be compromised. new assets of information such as nodes’ locations, motion This poses challenging constraints on MANET routing and patterns, network topology and traffic patterns in addition to conventional identity and message privacy. In particular, data forwarding. in wireless ad hoc networks mobile nodes must rely on ad Many anonymous routing schemes have been proposed for hoc routing to keep network functional for communication. MANET recently. Most of them use the on-demand routing The transmitted routing messages and cached active routing approach following