Security challenges in mobile ad hoc networks:a survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews security challenges in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), analyzing issues, parameters, and defense strategies, and discusses future research directions for enhancing MANET security.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of MANET security issues, defining key parameters, categorizing challenges, and evaluating defense approaches with future scope insights.

Findings

Identified key security challenges in MANETs

Evaluated effectiveness of various defense strategies

Outlined future research directions in MANET security

Abstract

MANET is a kind of Ad hoc network with mobile, wireless nodes. Because of its special characteristics like dynamic topology, hop-by-hop communications and easy and quick setup, MANET faced lots of challenges allegorically routing, security and clustering. The security challenges arise due to MANETs self-configuration and self-maintenance capabilities. In this paper, we present an elaborate view of issues in MANET security. Based on MANETs special characteristics, we define three security parameters for MANET. In addition we divided MANET security into two different aspects and discussed each one in details. A comprehensive analysis in security aspects of MANET and defeating approaches is presented. In addition, defeating approaches against attacks have been evaluated in some important metrics. After analyses and evaluations, future scopes of work have been presented.