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A Scalable and Secure MANET for an i-Voting System 1Department
of Computer Science and Engineering University of Science and Technology Chittagong,
Foy’s Lake, Chittagong, Bangladesh {knas11,
faria.farjana.khan}@gmail.com
2Pervasive
and Mobile Computing Laboratory Luleå
University of Technology, SE-931 87 Skellefteå,
Sweden karl.andersson@ltu.se
3Department
of Computer Science and Engineering University of Chittagong,
University-4331, Bangladesh hossain
ms@cu.ac.bd
Abstract Internet Voting (i-Voting)
is an online electronic voting process where a voter can vote staying online
from anywhere or connected to a wireless network of a target place. In this
paper, a wireless network built with a MANET has been considered for the
voting process. National parliamentary voting process of Bangladesh has been
taken as the case study. The MANET of the voting process is built using some
stationary wireless nodes and mobile wireless nodes. Voters carry mobile
wireless nodes using which they can vote. Stationary wireless nodes are
installed and deployed in the MANET built in a polling area selected by the
National Agency of Election process. These nodes are directly in connection
with the national database of voters. Stationary nodes perform the
authentication and validation processes of the voter (a
mobile node) before the vote is given and casted. The secured
transaction of data is the goal to be occurred and routed after a strong
authentication and validation of the user has been confirmed. The whole
process is completed in a scalable wireless network with a distributed goal
based approach. Total processes are followed by secured routing of data in this
MANET. The optimal routing protocol among OLSR, AODV, DSR, TORA and GRP has
been chosen. Denial of Service (DoS)
attacks have been considered as the major threat on nodes in this
MANET. The simulation work is done in the OPNET simulator. Keywords: i-voting,
Distributed scalable wireless networks, MANET, Routing protocols, +: Corresponding author: Karl Andersson
Pervasive and Mobile
Computing Laboratory, Luleå University of
Technology SE-931 87 Skellefteå, Sweden, Journal of Wireless
Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA) Vol. 8, No. 3,
pp. 1-17, September 2017 [pdf] |