Survey on Certificate Revocation in MANET

Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) is a self- configuring and infrastructure-less network which consists of mobile devices such as mobiles, laptops, PDA's etc. Because of its lack of infrastructure, wireless mobile communication, dynamic topology, MANET is vulnerable to various security attacks. This survey paper presents an overview of developments of voting and non-voting based certificate revocation mechanisms in past few years. Certificate revocation is an important method used to secure the MANET. Certificate revocation isolates the attacker nodes from participating in network activities by revoking its certificate. Over last few years different schemes are explored for certificate revocation. In concluding section we present the limitations of the current cluster based certificate revocation scheme.