An Energy Efficient and Trust-based Quality of Service Routing in Mobile Adhoc Networks

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks are widely used in all applications and are gaining attention towards reliable data delivery and efficient energy usage. Reliability of the data delivery is assured when the routing protocols are securely reliable and energy efficient. Limited resources being the main limitation of the wireless networks, there is a lack in providing security to the data and energy utilization. Trust aware routing can resolve the resource problems in MANETS. So, to overcome these limitations, an Energy Efficient and Trust-based Quality of Service Routing in Mobile Adhoc Networks is proposed. This protocol evaluates the trust score of the nodes based on the connectivity of the nodes and ACK sincerity, based on the comprehensive trust of the node's energy consumption required and communication cost for the communication between node is evaluated. This protocol efficiently identifies the malicious nodes based on the trust score it is the additional advantage of evaluating the trust score of nodes. The simulation results prove that the proposed protocol guarantees the reliable data delivery and aid to extend the life time of the network thereby improves the throughput of the network.