An Efficient Intrusion Detection System Based on Adaptive Acknowledgement with Digital Signature Scheme in MANETs

Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is a collection of mobile nodes and they can communicate with each other over the wireless medium without any fixed infrastructure. In MANETs any node can join and leave the network at any time and this makes MANETs vulnerable to a malicious attackers. Hence, it is necessary to develop an efficient intrusion-detection system to safeguard the MANET from attacks. In this paper, an Enhanced Adaptive Acknowledgement with Digital Signature Algorithm namely (EAACK-DSA) has been proposed which can detect and isolate the malicious nodes. This algorithm is based on the acknowledgement packet and hence all acknowledgement packets are digitally signed before transmission. The proposed algorithm can be integrated with any source routing protocol and EAACK-DSA gives a better malicious-behavior-detection than the conventional approaches.