Secure Routing Mechanisms

Within this document, we analyze how communication paths are set up in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) and especially on how this procedure can be improved with security. We assume that no one disagrees, when we claim that communication is needed to be secure in general; so what is left, is to motivate the examination of MANETs and of challenges for routing and security in this context. This shall be done for each of the terms mobile and ad hoc which classify the networking paradigm of MANETs.