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SECURE KEY EXCHANGE AND ENCRYPTION
FOR GROUP COMMUNICATION IN
WIRELESS ADHOC NETWORKS
ABSTRACT
Ad hoc wireless networks is primarily important, because the communication
signals are openly available as they propagate through air and are more susceptible to attacks ranging from passive eavesdropping to active interfering. The lack of any central coordination and shared wireless medium makes them more vulnerable to attacks than wired networks. Nodes act both as hosts and routers and are interconnected by Multi- hop communication path for forwarding and receiving packets to/from other nodes. The objective of this paper is to propose a key exchange and encryption mechanism that aims to use the MAC address as an additional parameter as the message specific key[to encrypt]and forward data among the nodes. The nodes are organized in spanning tree fashion, as they avoid forming cycles and exchange of key occurs only with authenticated neighbors in ad hoc networks, where nodes join or leave the network dynamically.
Ad hoc wireless networks are defined as the category of wireless networks that
utilize multi-hop radio relaying and are capable of operating without the support of any fixed infrastructure and nodes communicate directly between one another over wireless channels . As the wireless channels are openly available and propagate through the air, security in ad hoc networks is of primary concern . In an ad hoc wireless network, the routing and resource management are done in a distributed manner in which all nodes coordinate to enable communication among them as a group. This requires each node to be more intelligent so that it can function both as a network host for transmitting and receiving data and as a network router for routing packets from other nodes. As ad hoc networks significantly vary from each other in many aspects, an environment-specific and efficient key management system is needed.