Abstract:
The increased popularity and usage of wireless
technologies has opened the doors for new emerging
applications in the domain of networking. One emerging
and promising areas is the domain of Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks (MANETs). A mobile ad hoc network is a
collection of wireless mobile nodes that form a dynamic
network without the need for infrastructure or centralized
points.
The dynamic nature of ad hoc networks presents many
security challenges. Secure routing is a promising area for
achieving better security for the network by protecting the
routing protocols against malicious attacks. Several secure
routing protocols have been proposed in the literatures that
were successful in avoiding and preventing some types of
security attacks in MANETs. However, MANETs are still
vulnerable to other types of attacks. Hence, there is a need
for introducing an efficient mechanism to detect malicious
nodes.
In this paper, a new mechanism is proposed that
improves the performance of routing protocol against the
malicious attacks. Since a malicious node behaves in
abnormal ways, this mechanism proposes observing nodes
behavior such as nodes? mobility, and avoiding
communication through these nodes which may lead to
more secure routing.