John S. Baras

2013

Distributed Trust Based Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Shalabh Jain, John S. Baras

proceedings of the 2013 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2013), San Diego, California, November 18-20, 2013.

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Abstract

Establishing trust and security in ad-hoc networks has been a long studied problem. Several methods have been proposed for evaluation and dissemination of trust in such networks, with the goal of providing secure data paths. We propose a mechanism to utilize trust metrics derived from various methods for secure routing. Our scheme can be used in with exiting on-demand routing protocols with minimal modification. We highlight scenarios that establish the need for associating trust with a link, rather than just a node. Our scheme incorporates both link and node trust to avoid adversarial paths in a distributed manner. We validate via simulation, the security properties of our scheme in an ad-hoc network.

 

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