期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Management Studies
电子版ISSN：2231-5268
出版年度：2012
卷号：12
期号：2
出版社：Imperial Foundation
摘要：Mobile Ad-hoc Networks consist of wireless host that communicate with each other. The routes in a Mobile Ad-hoc Network may consist of many hops through other hosts between source and destination. The hosts are not fixed in a Mobile Ad-hoc Network; due to host mobility topology can change any time. Mobile Ad-hoc Networks are much more vulnerable to security attacks. Current research works on securing Mobile Ad hoc Networks mainly focus on confidentiality, integrity, authentication, availability, and fairness. Design of routing protocols is very much crucial in Mobile Ad-hoc Network. There are various techniques for securing Mobile Ad-hoc Network i.e. cryptography. Cryptography provides efficient mechanism to provide security, but it creates very much overhead. So, an approach is used which is analogous to Biological Immune System, known as Artificial Immune System (AIS). There is a reason of AIS to be used for security purposes because the Human Immune System (HIS) protects the body against damage from an extremely large number of harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi, termed pathogens. It does this largely without prior knowledge of the structure of these pathogens. AIS provide security by determining non-trusted nodes and eliminate all non-trusted nodes from the network.
