Trust based efficient routing (TER) protocol for MANETS

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANET) is a collection of nodes of wireless connectivity. In Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) all the mobile nodes are requiring restricted battery capacity. Because of the changing nature of network the sudden communication link breakage happens. Hence the possibility of data loss is more. Efficient utilization of energy and lossless transmission are the important issues in MANET. This paper proposes a new Trust based Efficient Energy Balanced Less Loss Routing (TER) Protocol for MANETS. This protocol improves the network performance by properly choosing the intermediate forwarding nodes. The Source Node picks only single of its neighbors as its next hop node by using Efficient Parameter (EP). The EP is calculated from the residual energy, distance, Occupied Queue space, the velocity of that node. The node using maximum EP is nominated as the succeeding node. This protocol reduces the number of channeling messages and hence reduces the path-finding Overhead of the network. It lessens the chance of data loss and hence improves throughput and Packet Delivery Ratio. This protocol adds trust to the selected node. In this paper, we do the simulation in ns-2 simulator and the performance is measured by with performance parameters like Routing Overhead, Packet Delivery Ratio, Throughput, End to End Delay and Average energy consumption.