Inproceedings,
On the Limitations of Security Concepts for Mobile Adhoc Networks Routing Protocols
DFN-Arbeitstagung über Kommunikationsnetze, Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, DFN 2004, (June 2004)DFN-Arbeitstagung über Kommunikationsnetze, Düsseldorf.
Abstract
Recently, a number of approaches proposing various security aspects
for routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks have been proposed.
In this work we do not introduce another proposal aiming at security
in the context of ad hoc networks. Instead, we argue from a generalized
view and answer the question: what security objectives are in principle
achievable and what security features are not achievable at all,
even when using unacceptable heavy weighted security features. Our
contribution in this work is to derive from the available security
mechanisms and from a reasonable ad hoc network specific attacker
model a set of theoretically achievable security objectives. In particular
we will also denote the majority of non practically achievable security
objectives.
