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Encounter record trust-based scheme against flooding attack in delay tolerant networks

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Delay/disruption tolerant network (DTN) is a rising communication criterion distinguished by intermittent connectivity. Routing algorithms in DTN are developed with the simple hypothesis that all the participating nodes collaborate with each other in storing and forwarding packets. Due to lake of centralized authority, it is difficult to protect the network against non-cooperative nodes. There may be some malicious nodes which may disrupt the forwarding strategy and insert excessive spurious traffic in order to degrade the performance of the network. This kind of misbehavior is known as flooding attack. This paper addresses this issue by using encounter record based scheme along with the trust based scheme to prevent network against Flooding attack. Encounter record table is used to check the encounter history of the receiver node and a trust metric is used to evaluate legitimacy of the received messages. Simulation outcomes show that our proposed scheme reduces the spurious traffic into the network which gives increased results for delivery probability and reduced overhead ratio.

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    Pooja R. Makawana & Rutvij H. Jhaveri

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Makawana, P.R., Jhaveri, R.H. Encounter record trust-based scheme against flooding attack in delay tolerant networks. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 9, 399–409 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-017-0046-3

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