Security of Ad Hoc Network
Yixian Yang · ZTE communications · 2007
Ad hoc network is combined by wireless mobile nodes completely. For there is no wired infrastructures such as base station, it faces two new security threats. There are attacks from the control layer and data layer, comparing Ad hoc with other wireless networks such as WLAN. Ad hoc should ensure the routing security on the control layer, and the secure forwarding of packets on the data layer. The distributed network protocol should operate safely, and peer-to-peer nodes should have trusting relations for each other. For this purpose, the complete solution should include three parts: security on the control layer, security on the data layer, and the security of private keys.