Lightweight Integrated Authentication for Tactical MANETs
Helen Tang, Mazda Salmanian · 2008
Tactical mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) impose special challenges for designing authentication schemes because of the hostile environments in which they may operate. In this paper, we propose a lightweight integrated authentication (LIA) scheme for tactical MANETs. Our proposal is a lightweight and efficient solution that is suitable for use in tactical MANETs because it has the following features: 1) integration of user-to-device authentication and device-to-network authentication 2) trust-enhanced routing table and 3) distributed revocation authority.