QoS Issues of Using Probabilistic Non-Repudiation Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Network Environment

Authors

Yi-Chi Lin, University of South Australia
Jill Slay, University of South Australia

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publisher

School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia

Comments

4th Australian Information Security Management Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, 5th December, 2006

Abstract

So as to guarantee the fairness of electronic transactions, users may require a NonRepudiation (NR) service in any type of network. However, most existing NR protocols cannot work properly in a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) due to their characteristics (e.g. limited resources and lack of central authority). The design of the Probabilistic NonRepudiation Protocol (PNRP) is comparatively suitable for the nature of a MANET, but it still poses some QoS issues. This article points out the QoS issues which are caused by using PNRP in a MANET environment. These issues explain the difficult of performing PNRP in such an infrastructureless environment.

DOI

10.4225/75/57b65df334770