| Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) is a collection of independent wireless mobile nodes, which can be deployed on-the-fly. MANETs are receiving a growing attention for their use in many application areas like battlefield applications, rescue operations, communication for remote geological explorations etc. Although the implementation of an efficient security mechanism in MANET is a challenging task because of its unique characteristics (such as, dynamic topology, lack of infrastructure, dynamic node join/leaves, limited bandwidth, constrained resources etc.), some security solutions for MANETs have already been proposed. The thesis aimed in analyzing the performance of few certificate-based security solutions for MANETs. It also adopted scenario-based experimental simulation software setup to perform thorough comparison of these security mechanisms. Some standard performance metrics and requirements were also used for this performance analysis. |
