This paper proposes a robust privacy-preserving secure anonymous zone routing protocol for military tactical networks. Since much of works have been focused on secure anonymous communications in either reactive protocols or proactive protocols, no research has been dedicated to the secure anonymous hybrid routing protocol. In particular, we propose the hybrid routing location-centric communicat...

The Optimised Link State Routing (OLSR) is a proactive routing protocol which relies on periodical broadcast of routing packets. However, due to the one-to-many relationship of broadcast traffic, the delivery of these packets can not be guaranteed by underlying MAC protocol, particularly in a congested condition. In this paper, the possible routing pathologies and failures of OLSR in a congeste...

To improve the throughput and transmission quality of routing protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks, this paper presents a cross-layer routing protocol MCL-AODV for the wireless Mesh backbone networks. The protocol takes the quality of MAC layer link, node queue congestion degrees and wireless transmission distance into account through the cross-layer operating system, to optimize the routing se...

Routing protocol is a central issue in Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANET). Several routing protocols have been proposed to deal with the routing issue in MANETs. Routing is a complex task in MANET, if the network is heavily loaded. In this study a new QoS routing protocol is proposed which provides better path selection by avoiding congestion, balancing the load and energy. It minimizes the communic...

Now-a-days energy-efficient routing in wireless sensor network is an important research issue. Due to limited battery-power sensor nodes are highly energy constrained. So to enhance the lifetime of sensor network we need energy-efficient routing protocol. According to network topology, routing protocol can be divided into flat and hierarchical routing protocol. This paper surveys different ener...

The key challenges in mobile Ad Hoc networks are efficient and dynamic routing. An ad hoc routing protocol is a standard that controls the way computing devices route packets in a mobile ad hoc network. The aim of ad hoc routing protocol is to establish correct and efficient route between pair of nodes that requires minimum overhead and bandwidth consumption. A number of ad hoc routing protocol...

Mobile Ad hoc networks (MANETs) are composed of mobile stations communicating through wireless links, without any fixed backbone support. In these networks, limited power energy supply, and frequent topology changes caused by node mobility, makes their routing a challenging problem. TORA is one of the routing protocols that successfully copes with the nodes’ mobility side effects, but it do...

In recent years mobile networks have expanded dramatically, compared with other wireless networks. Routing protocols in these networks are designed with the assumption that there is no attacker node, so routing protocols are vulnerable to various attacks in these networks. In this paper, we review the network layer attacks and then we simulate the impact of black hole attack on ad hoc on demand...