Ad hoc networks are characterized for being spontaneous, temporary, and not require a network infrastructure. The basic management functions of the network like routing and forwarding are to be carried out by all the available nodes, which are usually mobile and resource constrained. This supposes a new set of security threads that are specific to ad hoc networks.

Research interests of KISON in ad hoc networks focus in:

• Secure Routing Protocols

• Fair and robust Topology Management

• Cooperation Incentive Protocols

Tools:

• Cryptography Libraries for handheld mobile devices:

  
  

  The Pairing-based cryptography libraries PBC and PBC_sig, as well as the underlying GMP library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, have been ported to ARM architectures. Libraries have been built using cross-compilers available for Linux operating systems (in Windows execute them through Cygwin). We recommend using the same tools to develop the applications on top of these libraries.
  

  
  

  Linux Familiar:

  Cross-compiler:      arm-linux

  GMP:      lib-gmp-4.2.1-arm-linux.zip

  PBC:      lib-pbc-0.4.7-arm-linux.zip

  PBC_sig:      lib-pbc_sig-0.0.2.arm-linux.zip

  WinCE:

  Cross-compiler:      arm-wince-cegcc

  GMP:      lib-gmp-4.2.1-arm-wince.zip

  PBC:      lib-pbc-0.4.7-arm-wince.zip

  PBC_sig:      lib-pbc_sig-0.0.2-arm-wince.zip