Securing Multicast Route Discovery for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

摘要

This paper presents SMRAN, a novel securing multicast route discovery scheme for mobile ad hoc networks. The scheme relies entirely on hash chains based one-time signature mechanism, HORSEI, with very efficient signing and verifying, and we do this by improving the HORSE protocol through the introduction of interme- diate hash joints. The main purpose of SMRAN is to provide source authentication for multicast routing discovery messages in mobile ad hoc networks. SMRAN will construct multicast tree with authentica- tion constrains in ad hoc networks. The performance measure of SMRAN is evaluated using simulator NS2. The results represent that SMRAN produces less end-to-end packet latency than public key based secure routing scheme, and it is a feasible approach to securing multicast routing for mobile ad hoc networks.