Title: A dynamic trust evolution model for MANETs based on mobility

Authors: Vijender Busi Reddy; S. Venkataraman; Atul Negi

Addresses: Advanced Data Processing Research Institute, Secunderabad 500009, India ' Advanced Data Processing Research Institute, Secunderabad 500009, India ' School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India

Abstract: Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are said to be open, anonymous, dynamic and mobile in nature which makes them vulnerable to several types of attacks. Mobility of a node is a source of vulnerability and raises challenges in setup and maintenance of secure and reliable communication. We propose here a trust model that enables a node in a network to assess confidence in its immediate and extended neighbourhood. We derive a trust parameter Mobility Factor to assess node's mobility. The effects of mobility are included as a parameter in the trust evaluation. Proposed trust assessment allows identification of node's capricious behaviour using the concept of trust flutter. A formal proof is presented here supports the adequacy of the proposed approach. ns-2 simulations with mobility and malicious nodes show better performance of proposed approach as compared to recent work (TSR (Lia et al., 2013)). Improved resilience against packet-dropping/modification attack and on-off attacks was observed.

Keywords: ad-hoc; trust; mobility; MANETs; mobile ad-hoc networks; on-off attack; AODV routing; packet dropping attack; AODV trust; malicious.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2018.093331

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2018 Vol.28 No.4, pp.230 - 246

Received: 07 Jul 2015
Accepted: 12 Jun 2016
Published online: 25 Jul 2018 *

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