Reliable Data Security Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile ad hoc networks proved their efficiency in the deployment for different fields, but highly vulnerable to security attacks. It seems to be more challenging of in wireless networks. Existing research carried out provides authentication, confidentiality, availability, and secure routing and intrusion detection in ad hoc networks. Ad hoc network characteristics should be taken into consideration to design efficient data security along its path of transmission. The proposal work present, reliable data security architecture (RDSA) in improving the data transmission security of ad hoc networks with reliable multi-path routing. Reliable multiple paths between nodes in the ad hoc network increase the security level of transmitted data. The original message to be secured is split into parts that are transmitted in reliable multiple paths. The disseminated messages are encrypted on its course of transmission to improve the security further. Experimental simulations are conducted to the proposed RDSA approach and compared with existing ad hoc multi-path security solutions. RDSA shows better performance compared to that of generic data security architecture in terms of path stability and data loss to 5% and 7% respectively.