Assessing Node Trustworthiness through Adaptive Trust Threshold for Secure Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

In the field of communication, Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANET) have become popular and widely used. However, there are many security challenges in communication through these networks due to the presence of malicious nodes. The aim of this article is to present a novel adaptive threshold trust based approach for isolating malicious nodes to establish secure routing between source and destination. Many existing cryptography methods are complex and do not properly address the elimination of malicious nodes. Several trust-dependent mechanisms have been proposed that supplement old traditional cryptography- related security schemes. But it is observed that most of these trust based approaches are using direct trust and comparing with static trust threshold. This article proposes a novel method, secured trust with adaptive threshold (STAT) that uses the Adaptive threshold technique (APTT) combined along with secure trust based approach (STBA) to evaluate the node trustworthiness for efficient routing. Secure trust for a node is calculated based upon three tier observations that includes direct, neighbor, self-historical to enrich the trust factor and adaptive trust threshold is determined based upon network parameters dynamically. Node’s secure trust is compared with adaptive trust threshold computed to isolate the malicious nodes from routing. The proposed method is compared with two cases where routing is performed without any trust calculation and routing with trust calculation and compared with static trust threshold approach. Results show significant performance of the proposed work in terms of metrics like packet delivery ratio, delay, throughput, false positive detection ratio and packet drop ratio. The proposed method STAT effectively isolates the malicious nodes and establishes secure routing.

@article{Reddy2022,
  title     = {Assessing Node Trustworthiness through Adaptive Trust Threshold for Secure Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {13},
  number    = {4},
  year      = {2022},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {M Venkata Krishna Reddy and P. V. S. Srinivas and M. Chandra Mohan},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130426},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130426}
}