Security Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

This book contains research conducted over a three year period, for a Ph.D. Thesis. It provides the following: An introduction to mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs); an in-dept analysis of the state of art of MANET security and MANET routing security; in-dept analysis of IEEE 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), IEEE 802.11i Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Counter Mode CBC-MAC Protocol (CCMP); valuable insights into the process of developing MANET security protocols; detail and analysis of a localized MANET certificate revocation protocol the author developed; detail and analysis of a robust secure MANET routing protocol the author developed.