Multi-Path Trust-Based Secure AOMDV Routing in Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) offer a dynamic environment in which data exchange can occur without the need of a centralized server or human authority, providing that nodes cooperate among each other for routing. In such an environment, the protection of data en route to its destination is still a challenging issue in the presence of malevolent nodes. This paper proposes a message security approach in MANETs that uses a trust-based multipath AOMDV routing combined with soft-encryption, yielding our so-called T-AOMDV scheme. Simulation results using ns2 demonstrate that our scheme is much more secured than traditional multipath routing algorithms and a recently proposed message security scheme for MANETs (our so-called Trust-based Multipath Routing scheme (T-DSR)), chosen as benchmark. The performance criteria used are route selection time and trust compromise.