End-to-end Security Solution for Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network (wmanet)

Wireless Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (WMANET) is a group of an independent wireless (Mobile/ Semi Mobile) nodes communicating on a peer-to-peer basis with no preestablished infrastructure. The unique characteristics of WMANET make such networks highly vulnerable to security attacks when compared with wired networks or infrastructure-based wireless networks. This paper proposes a comprehensive, top-down, end-to-end security solution for WMANET based upon a well defined architecture and exploiting two of the ITU-T recommendations: X.800, and X.805. The proposed security solution could be applied to every wireless service provision scenario exploiting WMANET, in order to detect, predict, and correct security vulnerabilities.