Multi-agent collaboration based trust routing scheme for military ad hoc network

With the rapid development of mobile ad hoc network, security and trust are important to the network, especially for military ad hoc network. Trust routing scheme is the main issue in military ad hoc network. Trust routing is related to many factors such as routing hop number, node information integrity degree and node behavior. To use multi-source information, multi-agent collaboration method is used to design trust routing scheme. The definition of trust routing is proposed in the paper. Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol is used to validate trust routing scheme. NS-2 simulator is used to simulate different network scenarios and node behavior. Simulation results show that network security and efficiency can be improved in trust routing scheme.