Privacy and Security Enhancement in Mobile Ad- hoc Network (MANET) by using Information Hiding Techniques based on Man-In-The-Middle Attack: A Review

Year : 2026 | Volume : 13 | 01 | Page :
    By

    Ashish Kumar Soni,

  • Rajendra Gupta,

  • Ankur Khare,

  1. Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Rabindranath Tagore University, Raisen, Madhya Pradesh, India
  2. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rabindranath Tagore University, Raisen, Madhya Pradesh, India
  3. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Computer Science Engineering, Rabindranath Tagore University, Raisen, Madhya Pradesh, India

Abstract

The Ad-hoc Network is widely spreading in the whole world for quick communication. The MANET is a type of Ad-hoc network with special features of independent direct connections between devices. A nowadays MANET network is rapidly used in wireless communication in fast and easy access terms but MANET has many weaknesses in privacy and security that weakness make leakage of information in unprotected communication. So goals are the most important points for MANET to achieve maximum features during insecure communication. A many information hiding plans are presented in the world to find a better result for security features but the entire existing hiding plan is mostly dependent on the particular application. The combined security plan or improved or newly designed plan can prevent security problems. The Man-In-The-Middle attack technique is mostly used to attack the MANET network. The literature work introduced the general idea of security goals, their challenges, existing algorithms against attacks, information hiding plans, MANET features against MITM attacks.

Keywords: Application, Security Goals, MANETs, MITM Attacks, Information Hiding Methods

How to cite this article:
Ashish Kumar Soni, Rajendra Gupta, Ankur Khare. Privacy and Security Enhancement in Mobile Ad- hoc Network (MANET) by using Information Hiding Techniques based on Man-In-The-Middle Attack: A Review. Journal of Mobile Computing, Communications & Mobile Networks. 2026; 13(01):-.
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Ashish Kumar Soni, Rajendra Gupta, Ankur Khare. Privacy and Security Enhancement in Mobile Ad- hoc Network (MANET) by using Information Hiding Techniques based on Man-In-The-Middle Attack: A Review. Journal of Mobile Computing, Communications & Mobile Networks. 2026; 13(01):-. Available from: https://journals.stmjournals.com/jomccmn/article=2026/view=240815


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Volume 13
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Received 22/01/2026
Accepted 29/01/2026
Published 24/04/2026
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