Trust-Distrust Protocol for Secure Routing in Self-Organizing Networks
S. Karthick, Sharmila Sankar, Y.P. Arul Teen · 2018 International Conference on Emerging Trends and Innovations In Engineering And Technological Research (ICETIETR) · 2018
Now a days the usage of Self-Organizing Networks (SONs) is increasing, because of its wide application. Unlike common networks the SONs have the capability of reconfiguration, whenever any defect occurs in the network. Some of the SONs are Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET), Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) and Wireless Mesh Network (WMN). In common nodes in these kinds of networks are mobile in nature, but these nodes can create new topology at the instant it shifts its position. However, in these networks the loss of data may occur while routing due to its security lack. Hence many researchers have presented their research for providing secure routing in various SONs. Hoverer the security is still an issue in routing of SONs especially MANET. In this paper, we have developed a novel protocol for the secure routing in SONs, which is termed as Trust-Distrust Protocol (TDP). As per the proposed protocol, the routing is done in four stages. In the initial stage topology management using an improved pillar k-means algorithm. The second stage is Link Quality Appraisal (LQA) based on the fitness of nodes. The third stage is grading, in which a grade point is allotted to every node based on LQA. In the last stage the secure path for the routing is determined based on the grade point. The proposed protocol is tested in one of the major kinds of SONs, like MANET using the MATLAB research tool. Ultimately the proposed protocol outperform the performance of the existing routing strategies.