Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Data Security-Based Routing in MANETs Using Key Management Mechanism Subject The topic of the resource Cryptosystems; Key management; MANET; Routing; Security Description An account of the resource A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is an autonomous network developed using wireless mobile nodes without the support of any kind of infrastructure. In a MANET, nodes can communicate with each other freely and dynamically. However, MANETs are prone to serious security threats that are difficult to resist using the existing security approaches. Therefore, various secure routing protocols have been developed to strengthen the security of MANETs. In this paper, a secure and energy-efficient routing protocol is proposed by using group key management. Asymmetric key cryptography is used, which involves two specialized nodes, labeled the Calculator Key (CK) and the Distribution Key (DK). These two nodes are responsible for the generation, verification, and distribution of secret keys. As a result, other nodes need not perform any kind of additional computation for building the secret keys. These nodes are selected using the energy consumption and trust values of nodes. In most of the existing routing protocols, each node is responsible for the generation and distribution of its own secret keys, which results in more energy dissemination. Moreover, if any node is compromised, security breaches should occur. When nodes other than the CK and DK are compromised, the entire networks security is not jeopardized. Extensive experiments are performed by considering the existing and the proposed protocols. Performance analyses reveal that the proposed protocol outperforms the competitive protocols. 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bondada P.; Samanta D.; Kaur M.; Lee H.-N. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Applied Sciences (Switzerland), Vol-12, No. 3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available MDPI Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031041" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031041</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123072877&amp;doi=10.3390%2Fapp12031041&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=71874d32521da631520521b3176ffbb6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123072877&amp;doi=10.3390%2fapp12031041&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=71874d32521da631520521b3176ffbb6</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Gold Open Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 20763417 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Bondada P., Dayananda Sagar Research Foundation, University of Mysore (UoM), Mysuru, 570005, India; Samanta D., Dayananda Sagar Research Foundation, University of Mysore (UoM), Mysuru, 570005, India, Department of Computer Science, CHRIST University, Bangalore, 560029, India; Kaur M., Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju, 61005, South Korea; Lee H.-N., Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju, 61005, South Korea