Enhanced Energy Efficient Secure Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

Abstract

Wireless networks are considered the best utilized network and in particular Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) have found many applications for its data transmission in real time applications. The accompanying challenges restrict the current protocols for the routing being specifically used in MANETs. The design issues in this network are to restrict the usage of energy while transmitting information and provide security to the nodes. In the existing routing protocols, route comes from a source where the source node seeks a way to the target node, by transmitting messages to its adjacent nodes, and the nodes use energy to do this. Mobile Ad-hoc network faces challenges in improving the energy efficiency and providing security for the routing protocol. This research work proposes the Enhanced Energy Efficient-Secure Routing (EEE-SR) protocol as a novel security algorithm to access secure data in hostile environment. In the proposed work, to secure data transmission in the network, the nodes associates with security policy. Under this policy, both the nodes have a common enforcing policy, and then they communicate with each other. The selection of the nodes for the transmission has to prove its authentication and then selection of the routing path built on the available energy threshold at the nodes in the set-up for forwarding packets in the network. The routing protocol implements the best shortest path in network and also checks for the nodes trustworthiness by evaluating the trust policies enforcement on it. The protocol enables a node to autonomously decide whether to select the neighboring node or based on the available energy threshold and security policy enforced. The algorithm evaluates increase network lifetime and low in the energy consumption, packet loss and end-to-end delay.