Detection of Malicious Nodes in Flying Ad-hoc Network with Supervised Machine Learning

An Ad-hoc network (FANET) is a new upcoming technology which has been used in several sectors. Ad-hoc networks are mostly wireless local area networks (LANs). The devices communicate with each other directly instead of relying on a base station or access points as in wireless LANs for data transfer. In an Ad-hoc network the communication between one node to another in a FANET is not secured and there isn't any authorized protocol for secured communication. Therefore, we suggest an algorithm to detect the malicious node in a network. This algorithm uses Linear regression to calculate the reputation or trust value of a node in the network. Then the above found trust value is used to classify the node as normal node or malicious node based on the Logistic Regression Classification. Thus, allowing a secure communication of data and avoiding attacks.