Secured cluster based distributed fault diagnosis routing for MANET

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) has become very crucial for many industrial applications. It is dynamic in nature. Due to its mobility and resource constrainedness and dynamic topology, MANET is vulnerable to many attacks. Therefore it is indispensable to have secure and efficient communications in MANET. Towards this end, in this paper, a novel routing approach is proposed. It is known as cluster-based distributed fault diagnosis routing which is highly secure in nature. The proposed system model includes fault diagnosis and also secure key distribution. Keeping this in mind clusters are created in MANET appropriately. The cluster-based approach in MANET is capable of distributing the aggregated data. Data in each cluster is to be distributed to respective data center. A node in the cluster that has high energy resources is considered to be cluster head. The process of secure routing in the MANET is made by defining a procedure known as pseudonymity. The proposed model is implemented using NS2 simulations.