Role of cryptographic algorithms in mobile ad hoc network security: An elucidation

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Network, an infrastructure-less network is emerging as one of the major dynamic areas of communication. Due to the rapid increase in the moveable devices, an appreciable growth in wireless network is witnessed in the recent years. As the network is growing, the number of intruders is also rising to find a loophole in the security of network to achieve their evil means. So the network is prone to a large amount of attacks like wormhole attack, black hole attack, malicious node attack etc. In order to alleviate such attacks, security measures should be strong enough to combat. The objective of this paper is to study the cryptographic techniques implemented on Mobile Ad hoc Network in order to provide security to the foundation-less systems. Year-wise distribution of the cryptographic approach implementation has been presented and analysis has been made in terms of existing implementation and future work that necessitates its efficacious implementation.