Dynamic Trust Management for Delay Tolerant Networks and Its Application to Secure Routing
Abstract
Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) are characterized by high end-to-end latency, frequent disconnection, and opportunistic communication over unreliable wireless links. In this paper, we design and validate a dynamic trust management protocol for secure routing optimization in DTN environments in the presence of well-behaved, selfish and malicious nodes. We develop a novel model-based methodology based on Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) techniques for the analysis of our trust protocol and validate it via extensive simulation. Moreover, we address dynamic trust management, i.e., determining and applying the best operational settings at runtime in response to dynamically changing network conditions to minimize trust bias and to maximize the routing application performance. We perform a comparative analysis of our proposed routing protocol against existing trust-based (SReD) and non-trust based (PROPHET and epidemic) protocols. The results demonstrate that our protocol is able to deal with selfish behaviors and is resilient against trust-related attacks. Furthermore, our trust-based routing protocol can effectively trade off message overhead and message delay for a significant gain in delivery ratio. Our trust-based routing protocol operating under identified best settings outperforms SReD and PROPHET, and approaches the ideal performance of epidemic routing in delivery ratio and message delay without incurring high message or protocol maintenance overhead.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 28, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA583262
Entities
People
- Fenye Bao
- Ing-Ray Chen
- Jin-Hee Cho
- Moonjeong Chang
Organizations
- Virginia Tech