Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer SciencesVol.E90-ANo.2pp.539-541 Publication Date: 2007/02/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1337 DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.2.539 Print ISSN: 0916-8508 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Mobile Information Network and Personal Communications Keyword: ad hoc network, route discovery protocol, security, authentication,
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Summary: A secure and efficient route discovery protocol is proposed for ad hoc networks, where only one-way hash functions are used to authenticate nodes in the ROUTE REQUEST, while additional public-key cryptography is used to guard against active attackers disguising a node in the ROUTE REPLY.