Secure and Anonymous Routing for Mobile Adhoc Networks

Mobile adhoc networks require stronger privacy protection due to the open nature of their media. Schemes such as AODV, ANODR, ALARM uses either one time or long term public key cryptosystems or combination of both achieving only partial anonymity and unobservability. Also, these schemes depend on public key cryptography and hence incurring high computation overhead. Our proposed technique overcomes these disadvantages by employing group signature and ID based encryption together instead of Public Key Cryptosystem. This scheme is thought to offer complete unobservability of both types. Our proposed technique provides protection against denial of service and wormhole attacks. Additionally, we try to improve packet delivery ratio and latency.