Secured Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks to Defend Collaborative Black-hole and Gray-hole Attacks by Malicious Nodes

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a ubiquitous, infrastructure less and self-containing wireless network. In this networks nodes that are in mobility forms a temporary network without any infrastructure. In MANETs every node acts as host as well as router and therefore communication can be established on need basis without use of any fixed network equipment. But in presence of malicious nodes, this network leads to major security concerns as these nodes may disrupt the process of routing. In this scenario, detecting or preventing malevolent nodes, launching collaborative gray-hole or black-hole attacks is a major challenge. In this paper, a new secured routing protocol referred to as "Malicious Node Detection by Collaborative Bait (MNDCB)". This protocol can be regarded as hybrid protocol as it poses the advantage of both reactive and proactive defending architectures. This MNDCB protocol is defined with a reverse tracking method to detect the malicious nodes and there by defending their collaborative attacks. Simultaneous results proves that in the presence of malevolent node attacks, the MNDCB gives better performance over their best counter parts base DSR, 2-ACK and best effort fault tolerant (BFTR) routing protocols in-terms of performance metrics: packet-delivery-ratio, throughput and routing overhead.