ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the future trends in wireless ad-hoc network (WAN) security. It is sometimes very useful to predict the future to get new ideas and visualize the present in a more appropriate context. Future trends are the consequence of today’s activities. There are many open issues related to the future of wireless ad-hoc networks. A scenario of completely unrestricted “anytime, anywhere” communications using this technology seems to be inevitable in the nearest future. Wireless networking can be very well suited for the next-generation communications. Wireless ad-hoc networks have the potential to change how the communication world is seen. One of the major concerns today is the aggressive marketing policies of corporations. The industrial houses are perpetually in the rat race of claiming edges over each other. This remains their prime interest, and the big companies are just fascinated to see themselves the winner at the cost of almost anything. Quite often this thrust of staging eye-catching marketing stunts and promising more flexible and powerful user applications prompts them to market technologies in premature states. Securityrelated problems are unavoidable in such a scenario where technology is not thoroughly tested and critically analyzed.
