BatCave: Adding Security to the BATMAN Protocol 
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Anne G. Bowitz 1, Espen G. Graarud 1, Lawrie Brown 2, Martin G. Jaatun 1 

September 2011 

1. ITEM, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway 
2. UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, Australia 

Abstract
This paper discusses the Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
(BATMAN) protocol, that is intended as a replacement for protocols such as
OLSR, but just like most such efforts, BATMAN has no built-in security
features. We describe security extensions to BATMAN that control network
participation and prevent unauthorized nodes from influencing network routing.

Presented at the Sixth International Conference on Digital Information
Management (ICDIM 2011) at Trinity College, University of Melbourne,
Australia on 26-28 Sept 2011. In conference proceedings on IEEE Xplore at:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6093328

Revised and published as "A New Dawn for the Dark Knight: Securing BATMAN"
in Journal of Information Security Research, vol 2 num 3, September 2011,
pp118-128, Digital Information Research Foundation, India and USA, Chennai,
India. http://www.dline.info/jisr/v2n3.php