An access control framework in an ad hoc network infrastructure

Abstract

The union of an arbitrary topology constitutes of self-configuring mobile routers and associated hosts connecting by wireless links is called a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). In this paper, we propose an access control framework for an ad hoc network infrastructure. Compared with the wired and semi wireless network infrastructures in which users should be authenticated and given specific rules for access to the network resources, in an ad hoc network infrastructure some trusted nodes will be required to play the roles of authentication servers and policy enforcement rule servers when the previous servers leave the network. In order to reach to this purpose firstly, a model for Dynamic Monitoring in Ad hoc Networks is described which is going to be used as the trust based part of our proposed model, after that an access control Framework for semi-infrastructure ad hoc networks will be explained. Then, we will introduce our proposed framework to develop the mentioned semi ad hoc framework in a fully ad hoc network environment.