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

Table 5

Illustration of the data types for the proposed HLPN model.

Data type	Description
LID	LID of a node
NList	A list containing LIDs of neighboring node and neighbors of the neighboring nodes
UID	IP of a node
Hvalue	Hashed value of a node
L1	Joining node’s LID
L2	Primary anchor node’s LID
L3	Secondary anchor node’s LID
HAS	Hashed value of UID of the anchor node
M	Message to send
PrK	The private key of a node
PbK	The public key of a node
R	A nonce (random number)
IC	Identity card of a node
C	Certificate of a node
Cnbr	Certificate of a neighboring node