Trust Negotiation Based Approach to Enforce MANET Routing Security

Abstract

MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc Networks) are described assets of mobile nodes connected with wireless links. To be efficient, routing protocols in MANETs should, in fact, manage mobility, handle nodes energy dissipation and ensure security. We argue in this paper that trust negotiation is appropriate in such context to enhance the network performances. Trust concept is of concern to communication and network protocol designers. Thus, building trust relationships among participating nodes is critical to enabling collaborative optimization of system metrics. The main contribution of this paper is an extension of our previous proposition DTMCA (Delegation Trust Mobility-based Clustering Approach) which defines a new clustering approach, a trust management process and a delegation process. This environment allows the localization and the isolation of malicious nodes in MANETs. The extension proposed in this paper extends the trust management process by adding a trust negotiation module used in order to minimize the risk that malicious nodes join the MANETs.