An Overview of security issues in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are collections of self-organizing mobile nodes with dynamic topologies and no centralized authority. Each node participating in the network acts both as host and a router. So each node can participate to transfer data packet to destination node but suppose one node in network is removed at time it is very difficult to maintain the information about all node. The main advantage and disadvantage of MANETs provides large number of degree of freedom and self-organizing capability of that make it completely different from other network. Due to the nature of MANETs, to design and development of secure routing is challenging task for researcher in an open and distributed communication environments. In MANET, the more security is required in comparison to wired network. If source node chooses this fake route, malicious nodes have the option of delivering the packets or dropping them.