Quality of service and security issues in MANET environment

The quality of service and security issues are usually explored individually, rarely considering a possibility of comprehensive solution proposals. The focus of this paper is on exploring existing correlations for security and QoS issues in MANET, thus providing a strong foundation for an appropriate design of automated policy based management system (PBM). We proposed MPBM - a model for overall PBM solution suitable for MANET. Functional model of the proposed PBM consists of four entities dealing with: QoS, network resources, configuration and security.