A Secure Data Dissemination in a DHT-Based Routing Paradigm for Wireless Ad Hoc Network

Table 1

Important terms related to DHT-based secure routing in WANETs.

Symbol	Description
AN	Anchor node(AN) stores the mapping information of other nodes with respect to its LSP
LID	Logical identifier of a node
LS	Logical identifier space of node
LSP	LS portion of a node
UID	Universal identifier of a node
	Tuple of node i in -axis
	Tuple of node i in -axis
	Tuple of node i in -axis
	LS portion of node i in positive -axis
	LS portion of node i in negative -axis
	LS portion of node i in positive -axis
	LS portion of node i in negative -axis
	LS portion of node i in positive -axis
	LS portion of node i in negative -axis
, ,	Three tuples of node k in -, -, and -axis
	Joining node m assigned weight to its neighbor node k
	Joining node m assigned weight to its neighbor node k
	1-hop logical neighbors of a node
	User signature
PI	Personal identity of node
PbK	The public key of node
IP	IP address of node
PrK	The private key of node
IC	Identity card of node
C	Certificate of node
	Neighbor list: a list containing LIDs of neighboring node and neighbors of the neighboring nodes
SD	Sum of difference
LSD	Least sum of difference
, ,	Three tuples of hashed value or destination’s LID
, ,	Three tuples of neighbor LID
	Hash value
SII	Source index information