Secure routing protocol based on dynamic reputation and load balancing in wireless mesh networks

Abstract

Abstract Aiming at the characteristics of dynamic topology change and vulnerability of wireless mesh networks (WMN), a secure routing protocol based on dynamic reputation and load balance (SRP-DRLB) is proposed to improve the routing security and load balance. By dynamically predicting of the reputation and traffic of the node in WMN, SRP-DRLB adopts edge weight strategy and node load idleness to avoid the competitive access of a large number of data packets to nodes with high reputation. SRP-DRLB dynamically adjusts routes according to the real-time status of network nodes’ reputation and traffic, reducing the impact of malicious nodes on the network and the overload of high-reputation nodes, thus improving the identification rate of malicious nodes and node load balancing. Simulation results show that SRP-DRLB can effectively ensure the security of data transmission, and it has the advantages of improving the identification rate of malicious nodes, the success rate of packet transmission and avoiding network congestion.

Keywords

• Wireless mesh networks
• Secure routing
• Reputation mechanism
• Load balancing
• Dynamic prediction