Ali Dorri and Seyed Reza Kamel and Esmail kheyrkhah, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes with restricted transmission range and resources, no fixed infrastructure and quick and easy setup. Because of special characteristics, wide-spread deployment of MANET faced lots of challenges like security, routing and clustering. The security challenges arise due to MANETs self-configuration and self-maintenance capabilities. In this paper, we present an elaborate view of issues in MANET security. We discussed both security services and attacks in detail. Three important parameters in MANET security are defined. Each attack has been analyses briefly based on its own characteristics and behaviour. In addition, defeating approaches against attacks have been evaluated in some important metrics. After analyses and evaluations, future scopes of work have been presented.

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), Security, Attacks on MANET, Security services, Survey.