Research Article
Ensuring Data Confidentiality and Privacy in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-27299-8_51, author={Hamza Aldabbas and Helge Janicke and Radwan AbuJassar and Tariq Alwada’n}, title={Ensuring Data Confidentiality and Privacy in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks}, proceedings={Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology. Networks and Communications. Second International Conference, CCSIT 2012, Bangalore, India, January 2-4, 2012. Proceedings, Part I}, proceedings_a={CCSIT PART I}, year={2012}, month={11}, keywords={MANETs Policy Enforcement Point(PEP) Policy decision Point(PDP) and Discretionary Access Control (DAC)}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-27299-8_51} }- Hamza Aldabbas
Helge Janicke
Radwan AbuJassar
Tariq Alwada’n
Year: 2012
Ensuring Data Confidentiality and Privacy in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
CCSIT PART I
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27299-8_51
Abstract
Mobile networks (MANETs) are autonomous systems which are comprised of a number of mobile nodes that communicate between themselves by wireless communication in a peer-to-peer basis. They are self-organized, self-configured and self-controlled infrastructure-less networks. Nodes can communicate with each other without any pre-planned or a base station. Disseminating information securely between these nodes in such networks however is a challenging task, particularly when the information is confidential. Revealing such information to anyone else other than the intended nodes could be highly damaging, especially in military applications where keeping the message secret from adversaries is essential. In this paper we present our novel framework for privacy control in mobile networks in which privacy policies are attached to messages as they are send between peers. We evaluate our framework using the Network Simulator (NS-2) to provide and check whether the privacy and confidentiality of the originator are met. For this we implemented the privacy enforcement as an NS2 agent that manages and enforces the policies attached to packets at every node in the MANET.