Analysis of MANET security issues : vulnerabilities, attacks, and measures

Abstract EN

Wireless networks became very popular and spread everywhere around us, at home, office, mall, restaurant, and coffee shop etc.

It illustrates the necessity and needs of one being connected and being online around the clock.

Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is a wireless network that consists of wireless mobile nodes with no infrastructure as the participants’ nodes can simply join and leave the network on their own.

There is no fixed set infrastructure and centralized administration in this type of networks.

The lack of infrastructure and the nature of the Mobile Ad hoc NETwork makes it very weak and vulnerable to various types of random attacks rather than planned and engineered attacks.

Since the participating nodes are not static nodes, and most probably they are not related to each other, and the only common interest among them is sharing the same network.

Engineered attacks does not target random in the move victims where the attack will never be neither perfect nor effective for granted.

This paper addresses the importance of MANET security issues insight of security measures, needs, and attacks.