TRIDNT: The Trust-Based Routing Protocol with Controlled Degree of Node Selfishness for MANET

In Mobile ad-hoc network, nodes must cooperate to achieve the routing purposes. Node misbehaviour due to selfish or malicious intention could significantly degrade the performance of MANET because most existing routing protocols in MANET are aiming at finding most efficiency path. In this paper, we propose a Two node-disjoint Routes protocol for Isolating Dropper Node in MANET (TRIDNT) to deal with misbehaviour in MANET. TRIDNT allows some degree of selfishness to give an incentive to the selfish nodes to declare itself to its neighbours, which reduce the misbehaving nodes searching time. In TRIDNT two node-disjoint routes between the source and destination are selected based on their trust values. We use both DLL-ACK and end-to-end TCP-ACK to monitor the behaviour of routing path nodes: if a malicious behaviour is detected then the path searching tool starts to identify the malicious nodes and isolate them. Finally by using a mathematical analysis we find that our proposed protocol reduces the searching time of malicious nodes comparing to the route expected life time, and avoids the isolated misbehaving node from sharing in all future routes, which improve the overall network throughput.