Secure Integration between Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Mobile IPv6

Abstract

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a self organized network of wireless devices suited for applications that require on the fly communications. Mobile Nodes (MNs) in the MANET employ multi-hop relaying techniques to exchange messages. These MNs are not globally reachable by nodes in the Internet. Integrating Mobile IP version 6 (MIPv6) protocol with MANETs opens the gates for providing Internet connecCivity to the MNs. Securing the integrated MANET and MIPv6 architecture is challenging. In this paper, we propose and describe a secure multi-hop MIPv6 registration schemf in the MANET -MIPv6 integrated architecture. The proposed scheme offers a secure multi-hop MIPv6 registration.