Trust based Dynamic Multicast Group Routing Ensuring Reliability for Ubiquitous Environment in MANETs

Abstract

The mobile environment in MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc Networks) itself is a major constraint to deal with, and assuring reliability on the top of that strengthens the problem more. This paper which is entirely an extension of the authors' previous work based on trust based group formation using Fuzzy Logic. They herein propose a model which is highly inspired by natural and social behavior of human beings that man is a social animal and is always associated with different types of dynamic groups. Before ensuring the reliable route take into account the trust (T) and the speed (S) of the intermediate nodes which may take part in routing. Trust is actually a matter of feeling with which one feels connected with some person/s in the form of multicast groups. Thus, the proposed Multicast Route Reliability (MRR) is a purely a probabilistic function of Cartesian product of past relationships and present moving patterns.