Mobile ad hoc networks are growing in popularity due to the explosive growth of modern devices with wireless capability such as laptop, mobile phones, PDA, etc., makes the application more challenging. The mobile nodes are vulnerable to security attacks. Providing security and anonymity to users are critical in wireless ad hoc networks. Ad hoc networks have lots of applications; however, a vita...

A mobile ad hoc network is comprised of mobile hosts that can communicate with each other using wireless links. It is also possible to have access to some host in a fixed infrastructure depending on the kind of the mobile ad hoc network. Mobile ad hoc networks can be realized by different networks such as body area network (BAN), vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), wireless sensor network (WSN). ...

Mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks have promised a wide variety of applications. However, they are often deployed in potentially adverse or even hostile environments. Therefore, they cannot be readily deployed without first addressing security challenges. Intrusion detection systems provide a necessary layer of indepth protection for wired networks. However, relatively little r...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) represent complex distributed systems that comprise wireless mobile nodes that can freely and dynamically self-organize into arbitrary and temporary, ‘‘ad-hoc’’ network topologies, allowing people and devices to seamlessly internetwork in areas with no pre-existing communication infrastructure, e.g., disaster recovery environments. Ad hoc networking concept is no...

Deployed in 1990’s, Mobile Ad-hoc networks have been widely researched for many years. Mobile Ad-hoc Networks are a collection of two or more devices equipped with wireless communications and networking capability. These devices can communication with other nodes that immediately within their radio range or one that is outside their radio range. For the later, the nodes should deploy an interme...

B ECAUSE the subject of this issue is wireless ad hoc networks, it would be beneficial to provide a definition of the phrase ad hoc as it is used in the context of mobile wireless networks. We have as a starting point the common definitions of this phrase, such as " for a specific purpose or occasion " or " for this case alone, " and many of us have served on at least one ad hoc committee. But ...

The increasing number of mobile devices enabled by wireless communication significantly change security issues and challenge threat modeling research in many ways. Particularly because of the vulnerability of wireless communication channels in addition to the insecure and lacking infrastructure, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) require an adjusted Threat Model in contrast to the Threat Model fac...