New MPR Computation for Securing OLSR Routing Protocol Against Single Black Hole Attack

Abstract

The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) operates as proactive routing protocol destined for Mobile Ad hoc Network, OLSR is considering as one of the four important routing protocols identified by the Internet Engineering Task Force. The core of performance in OLSR routing protocol is the Multipoint Relays (MPRs) which are selected nodes responsible to forward broadcast messages during the flooding process in order to optimize the message overhead across the network. However, OLSR can be affected by the single Black hole attack that presents an active routing attack disturbs the network by dropping the forwarding packets. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm of selection for the MPR set in order to avoid malicious neighbors and select the thrust one by add a new criterion named as degree of forwarding. Our approach is based on exchanging acknowledgment Hello message between 2-hop neighbors when message HELLO is forwarded successfully between them, some modifications in MPR selection process are also made to select the most secure MPR nodes. The simulation of our proposed solution gives highly motivated results compared to the standard version of OLSR routing protocol under the Black hole attack in different network metrics as the throughput, packet delivery ratio, End-to-End delay, jitter delay and packet lost.