A low cost system with light weight and energy efficient methods for secure routing in mobile ad-hoc network (manet) for implementing personal area network (pan).

摘要

With the advent of real applications in fields like domestic and defense, Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is becoming popular. MANET does not require any infrastructure; moreover, it can behave as mobile networks. These features have boosted up the popularity of MANET in the community. As more and more fields get dependent on MANET, the system needs to be more robust and less expensive. For example, in defense field security is the major issue, while in the domestic field maintaining the QoS is the major issue. To commercialize MANET the routing protocols need to be lightweight, secure and the hardware on which it is to be implemented should be low cost at the same time. The invention proposes a lightweight, secure and energy efficient routing model for MANET; which uses fidelity to allocate trust to a neighbor, thereby taking the decision whether to send data via that secure neighbor or not. It also uses new packets like report and recommendation that help the protocol to detect and eliminate the malicious nodes from the network. It has been implemented in hardware, on the Arduino platform with ZigBee network.