Design and Development of Anonymous Zone Based Partitioning and Routing Protocol in MANETS (AZPR)

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) feature of self-organizing and independent infrastructures which makes mobile ad hoc networks to be used for information sharing and communication. MANET use anonymous routing protocols that hide node identities and/or routes from outside observers in order to provide anonymity protection. Anonymous routing protocols relying on either hop-by-hop encryption or redundant traffic either generates high cost or cannot provide full anonymity protection to source, destination, and route. The high cost introduces the inherent resource constraint problem in MANETs especially in multimedia wireless applications. To offer high anonymity protection at a low cost, this paper proposes An Anonymous Zone-Based Partitioning and Routing Protocol in MANET (AZPR). AZPR dynamically partitions the network field into zones and randomly chooses nodes in zones as relay nodes, which form an anonymous route which is untraceable. AZPR hides the data initiator/receiver among many initiators/receivers to strengthen source and destination anonymity protection. Hence it offers anonymity protection to source, destination, and route. It also provides some strategies to effectively prevent intersection and timing attacks.