Self-Organized Authentication Architecture for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces GASMAN, a fully distributed self-organized authentication architecture for mobile ad-hoc networks, ensuring security despite mobility and lack of hierarchy, validated through extensive simulations.

Contribution

It presents GASMAN, a novel architecture for secure, fully distributed authentication in mobile ad-hoc networks, addressing key security challenges.

Findings

GASMAN fulfills all security requirements for mobile ad-hoc networks.

Simulation results demonstrate GASMAN's effectiveness in various scenarios.

The architecture adapts to dynamic network topologies and mobility.

Abstract

This work proposes a new architecture, called Global Authentication Scheme for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (GASMAN), for fully distributed and self-organized authentication. In this paper apart from describing all the GASMAN components, special emphasis is placed on proving that it fulfils every requirement of a secure distributed authentication scheme, including limited physical protection of broadcast medium, frequent route changes caused by mobility, lack of structured hierarchy, etc. Furthermore, an extensive analysis through simulation experiments in different scenarios is described and discussed.