Efficient Authentication based IP Configuration for MANETS using Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

For connecting into the internet world IP configuration is an important requirement in Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). Hence, before involving in any sort of communication each node inside MANET should be self-configured yielding maximum performance metrics. To attain this each end terminal within the MANET network should be configured with a unique IP address. There have been several existing IP addressing schemes that adds complexities to the network, which shows results only in average latency and low communication overload. Apart from latency and overhead, performance metrics like throughput, delay and packet delivery ratio are important to qualitatively analyze a good addressing scheme metrics. Hence, the above metrics have not been discussed in detail till date. This paper proposes a certificate integrated IP allocation mechanism that uses an authentication based IP configuration utilizing Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) that defends the security issues and improves the performance metrics.