EigenTrust-based non-cooperative game model assisting ACO look-ahead secure routing against selfishness
S. Surendran, Prakash Savarimuthu · EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking · 2014
In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), selfish behavior is observed when nodes fail to forward data packets which are actually intended. This is generally assumed to be a kind misbehavior which might interrupt the network operations. Here, we propose a QoS-constrained EigenTrust-based non-cooperative game model for secure fault-tolerant ant look-ahead routing which attempts to identify trusted valid route and look-ahead route pairs which might help in choosing the alternate path in case of valid route failure. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed trust-based secure routing is able to accurately distinguish malicious nodes from good nodes with a limited overhead.