Performance Analysis and Special Security Issues of Secure Routing Protocols in Ad-Hoc Networks

An ad-hoc wireless network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes that self-configure to construct a network without the need for any established infrastructure or backbone. Ad hoc networks use mobile nodes to enable communication outside wireless transmission range. Mobile Ad-hoc wireless networks (MANETs) assume no existing infrastructure is available for routing packets end-to-end in a network and instead rely on intermediary peers. Many of the ad hoc routing protocols that address security issues rely on implicit trust relationships to route packets among participating nodes. The analysis of the main vulnerabilities in the mobile ad hoc networks, which have made it much easier to suffer from attacks than the traditional wired network. This paper presents the performance analysis and comparison of all the secure routing protocols principles with theirs characteristics, functionality, merits, demerits and security issues.