PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF THE NEIGHBOR WEIGHT TRUST DETERMINATION ALGORITHM IN MANETS

International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA)
ISSN 0974 - 9330 (Online); 0975 - 2307 (Print)
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ARTICLE

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF THE NEIGHBOR WEIGHT TRUST DETERMINATION ALGORITHM IN MANETS

Ali Abu Romman¹ and Hussein Al-Bahadili²

¹ King Hussein Faculty for Computing Sciences, Princess Sumaya University for

Technology, Amman, Jordan

² Faculty of Information Technology, University of Petra, Amman, Jordan

ABSTRACT

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are susceptible to attacks by malicious nodes that could easily bring down the whole network. Therefore, it is important to have  a reliable mechanism for detecting and isolating malicious nodes before they can do any harm to the network. One of the possible mechanisms is by using trust-based routing protocols. One of the main requirements of such protocols is to have a cost-effective trust determination algorithm. This paper presents the performance analysis of a recently developed trust determination algorithm, namely, the neighbor-weight trust determination (NWTD) algorithm. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated through simulation using the MANET simulator (MANSim). The simulation results demonstrated the reliability and effectiveness of the algorithm in identifying and isolating any maliciously behaving node(s) in a timely manner.

KEYWORDS

NWTD; trust determination; trust-based routing protocols; malicious node; MANET; MANSim. 

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