2008 Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
WATCHMAN: An Overlay Distributed AAA Architecture for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
March 04-March 07
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3102-1
Access control concerns in MANETs are very serious and considered as a crucial challenge for operators who prospects to employ unrivaled capabilities of such networks for different applications. We propose a novel hierarchical distributed AAA architecture for proactive link state routing protocols notably OLSR [1]. This proposal contains a lightweight and secure design of an overlay authentication and authorization paradigm for mobile nodes as well as a reliable accounting system to enable operators to charge nodes based on their connection duration time. We also suggest a hierarchical distributed AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) server architecture with resource and location aware election mechanism. Moreover, this proposal mitigates the OLSR security issues [2] noticeably and eventually defines a node priority-based quality of service.
Index Terms:
AAA Architecture, MANET, OLSR, Security
Citation:
Amir R. Khakpour, Maryline Laurent-Maknavicius, Hakima Chaouchi, "WATCHMAN: An Overlay Distributed AAA Architecture for Mobile Ad hoc Networks," ares, pp.144-152, 2008 Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2008