Title: SPRP: a secured routing protocol for delay tolerant networks

Authors: Swati; Jagtar Singh Sivia; Harminder Singh Bindra

Addresses: Computer Engineering Department, Punjabi University, Patiala 147001, India ' ECE Department, Punjabi University, YCOE, Guru Kashi Campus, Talwandi Sabo, Patiala, 151302, India ' IT Department, MIMIT 152107, Malout, India

Abstract: A delay tolerant network (DTN) depends on certain assumptions that nodes cooperate and coordinate towards message forwarding. However, this assumption cannot be satisfied if there are malicious nodes in the network these malicious nodes intentionally attract and drop messages from other nodes of the network. In this paper we propose a scheme for preventing malicious nodes from launching the combination of Routing Misrepresentation and Sybil attacks. This scheme is based on identity based digital signature scheme. Each node in a network needs to verify its identity before taking an interest in the message exchange process. The proposed system is utilised to secured prophet routing protocol (SPRP) against the combination of routing misrepresentation and Sybil attacks. The resulting protocol is robust against these combinations of attacks.

Keywords: DTN; delay tolerant network; routing protocol; prophet; attacks; identity based digital signature technique; delivery probability; overhead ratio; average latency; average buffertime.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2019.103043

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2019 Vol.31 No.3, pp.156 - 171

Received: 29 May 2019
Accepted: 29 May 2019

Published online: 14 Oct 2019 *

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