DefinePK

Abstract

MANET faces many challenges owing to its infrastructure-less nature. The central governing authority is absent in the jargon of MANET and thus, this work exploits clustering technique. The clustering technique relies on the leader node and this work elects a leader node by means of trust mechanism. The elected leader node is recycled for every period of time, so as to preserve the energy of that node. The trust metrics employed to elect a leader node of a cluster are energy, packet delivery ratio and mobility. Besides this, a trustworthy routing policy is introduced, so as to increase the reliability and the quality of the service. A trustworthy route depends on the count of trustworthy nodes being present along the specific path. The experimental results prove the efficacy of this work.