Lightweight Energy Proficient Anonymous Routing for Low-Power MANET

Abstract

Low-power Ad Hoc systems are the most challenging aspect for secured Ad Hoc systems. The resource constrained devices were easily tampered due to the limited operated environment. Over the past decade, the usage rate of Ad Hoc systems are rapidly increased in modern communication systems. However, the security is still a research factor for Lowpower Ad Hoc systems. Offering Security and Anonymity is an important research issue in Low-power Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (LPMANET). Various anonymous routing protocols presented to maintain anonymity in adverse environment, these protocols proven significant results in Ad Hoc systems but failure to improved the anonymity efficiency in Low-power Ad hoc networks. In this paper, a Lightweight Energy Efficient Anonymous Routing (LEEAR) protocol is proposed to offer energy efficient anonymity and security in an adverse environment by combining modified zero knowledge proof, bloom filter and cryptography techniques. We designed the LEEAR protocol to determine the efficiency in-terms security and energy against routing level and traffic level attacks. We simulated the experiment in NS2 simulator the determine the results and ensure importance of the proposed LEEAR protocol in accomplishing energy efficiency and anonymity.