TRUST BASED ENERGY EFFICIENT LOAD BALANCED NETWORK ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR MOBILE ADHOC NETWORKS

Abstract

The two most challenging issues in deployment of mobile adhoc networks (MANETs) are trust and energy consumption, since mobile nodes are battery powered and their behavior is unpredictable. Furthermore replacing and recharging batteries and making nodes co-operative are often impossible in critical environments like military applications. So the main issue is how to prolong the lifetime of the network. In this dissertation report, we propose a trust based energy efficient load balanced routing protocol for MANET. During route discovery, neighbor node with more trust and maximum average path energy is selected. Route reply from a node is accepted only if its trust value is high. Otherwise, the route is discarded. This approach forms a reliable route from source to destination thus increasing network life time, improving energy utilization and decreasing the packet loss during transmission.