Parallel Load Balancing and Over-lay Authentication System for Secure Industrial Network Communications

Abstract

On one hand, being a highly self-establishing wireless network with dynamic topology, mobile adhocnetworks (MANET) are not constrained by limitations of fixed framework, and as a consequence,MANETs are now used increasingly in a wide range of fields. On the other hand, flexibility, the typicalnature of MANET, making all nodes in an uncontrolled environment. Every node despite itssituation is equal to have an opportunity to deal with route events causing an unstable performanceof the whole MANET system. To deal such an uncertain problem within any MANET system, thispaper presents a novel model called Parallel Load Balancing and Overlay authentication System forSecure Ad-hoc Communications. The model is designed to build up an over-layer to MANET systemwith those nodes in good condition, which is called strong peers in this paper and do the routejob to avoid some bad situation like route fail or authentication fail. Simulation results comparingMANET system with and without the help of over-layer are provided to demonstrate the proposedmodel suitability for secure ad-hoc communications.