A Survey on Key Management and Certificate Exchange in Mobile Adhoc Network

1. Introduction

Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) is a self-organizing network in which the nodes are free to move arbitrarily and arrange themselves (Taneja & Kush, 2010). These networks are used in applications ranges from large-scale and highly dynamic networks, to small and static networks (Sharma et al., 2010). Mobile adhoc networks are easily affected due to various attacks like active attacks, passive attacks etc., When the attacker cause jamming, transmit fake routing information or disrupt nodes from providing services, it is said to be active attacks. In passive attack, the attacker desires to gain control access over the network. To minimize the attacks, one should remove the attackers immediately after detecting the first attack. This can be done by using a certification system.