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Cyclic Redundancy Check Based Data Authentication in Opportunistic Networks

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2nd International Conference on Wireless Intelligent and Distributed Environment for Communication (WIDECOM 2018)

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Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) work with dynamic topology, neither having focused management nor any protection system. Security is a challenging and open research issue in OppNets. A source node always has the concerns about its data. The success of any network depends on percentage of guaranteed and authenticated delivery that it can provide from source node to destination node. OppNets nodes like handheld devices, vehicular nodes, sensors, RFID, etc., have limited calculation resources and small buffering capacity. Hence the aim of the proposed technique is to logically use the energy and storage of the OppNet nodes. In this paper, we present a novel message authentication technique for opportunistic networks. The proposed technique is based on cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encryption with timestamps. The idea is simple but powerful with high accuracy results and efficiently utilizing the resources of the network nodes. The analysis of the proposed protocol shows that it can resist malicious attacks, which may alter or modify the data packets during the transmission.

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  1. Miranda House, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Megha Gupta

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Isaac Woungang

  2. CAITFS, Department of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India

    Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher

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Gupta, M. (2019). Cyclic Redundancy Check Based Data Authentication in Opportunistic Networks. In: Woungang, I., Dhurandher, S. (eds) 2nd International Conference on Wireless Intelligent and Distributed Environment for Communication. WIDECOM 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11437-4_2

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