Abstract—The wireless nature and inherent features of
mobile ad hoc networks make them vulnerable to a wide
variety of attacks. In an internal attack, the attacker gains the
normal access to the network and takes part in the network
activities, either by some malicious impersonation to get the
access to the network as a new node, or by directly
compromising a current node and using it as a basis to conduct
its malicious behaviors. In this paper, we develop a cluster
based authentication technique to mitigate the internal attacks.
The entire network is divided into hierarchical group of
clusters, each cluster having a fully trusted cluster head. Each
node holds a certificate issued by an offline certificate
authority (CA). The Trust Count (TC) for each of the nodes
can be estimated periodically for every trust evaluation
interval (TEI), based on their access policy (AP). The
certificate of a node is renewed or rejected by the cluster head,
based on its trust counter value. By simulation results, we show
that our proposed technique provides better packet delivery
ratio and resilience against node capture.
Index Terms—Access policy, authentication, clustering, node
capture attacks, trust count.
R. Murugan is with Department of Computer Applications, Bannari
Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, India (email:
muruganraam75@yahoo.com).
A. Shanmugam is with Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering of Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam,
India.
Cite:R. Murugan and A. Shanmugam, "Trust Count Based Authentication Technique for Mitigation of Internal Attacks in MANET," International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing vol.2, no. 5, pp. 564-568, 2012.