An Efficient Trust and Energy Aware Protocol Using TAODV-ACO in MANETs

Abstract

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a relationship of the mobile nodes with constrained transmission range and asset with no fixed infrastructure. But, malicious attack of node reduce the trust-level nodes that lead to insecure in delivering data. The increments in attacks cause extreme energy consumption that tends to a decrease in network-lifetime. The security and routing issues are concentrated by introducing trust aware ad-hoc protocols. In this research proposal, Trust-Aware ad-hoc Routing (T2AR) with Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is used for maximizing the trust level based on trust-rate, energy, mobility based malicious behavior prediction. Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) uses two processes to find and maintain routes: the route detection process and the route maintenance. Hence, the T2AR-AODV-ACO methodology precisely transmits data from source to destination (S-D) by executing better throughput, routing overhead, end-to-end delay and energy consumption in trust aware ad-hoc routing.