Opinion Based Trusted AODV Routing Protocol for MANET

Mobile ad hoc network is one of the popular network technology used for rapid deployment in critical situations. Because the nature of network is ad hoc therefore a number of issues exist. In order to investigate the security in mobile ad hoc network a number of research articles are explored and it is observed that most of the attacks are deployed on the basis of poor routing methodology. For providing the security in the ad hoc networks an opinion based trust model is proposed which is working on the basis of the network properties. In this model two techniques are used one is trust calculation that helps in finding most trustworthy node and other is opinion evaluation by which most secure route to the destination is obtained. By the experimental outcomes the results are compared with the traditional approach of trust based security. According to the obtained results the performance of the network becomes efficient in all the evaluated parameters as compared to the traditional technique. Thus proposed model is more adoptable for secure routing in MANET.