A Secure DSR Routing Protocol for MANET

We present the design and performance evaluation of a new secure DSR routing protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) called Security Aware Dynamic Source Routing (SADSR) that incorporates security attributes as parameters into a route discovery. The proposed protocol can be implemented based on the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol with suitable modification. SADSR enables the discovery of secure routes. Its integrated security metrics allow applications to explicitly capture and enforce explicit cooperative trust relationship. In addition, SADSR provides customizable security to the flow of routing protocol messages themselves. Routes discovered by SADSR come with Quality of Protection (QoP) guarantees.