An Efficient Selfishness Control Mechanism for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Abstract

A MANET (mobile ad hoc network) is a self-organized wireless network. This network is more vulnerable to security failure due to dynamic topology, infrastructure-less environment, and energy consumption. Based on this security issue, routing in MANET is very difficult in real time. In these kinds of networks, the mobility and resource constraints could lead to divide the networks and minimize the performance of the entire network. In real time it is not possible because some selfish nodes interacts with other nodes partially or may not share the data entirely. These kind of malicious or selfish nodes degrade the network performance. In this chapter, the authors proposed and implemented the effect of malicious activities in a MANETs using self-centered friendship tree routing. It's a novel replica model motivated by the social relationship. Using this technique, it detects the malicious nodes and prevents hacking issues in routing protocol in future routes.