Parallel Load Balancing and Overlay Authentication System for Secure Industrial Network Communications

Abstract

On one hand, being a highly self-establishing wireless network with dynamic topology, mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) are not constrained by limitations of fixed framework, and as a consequence, MANETs are now used increasingly in a wide range of fields. On the other hand, flexibility, the typical nature of MANET, making all nodes in an uncontrolled environment. Every node despite its situation is equal to have an opportunity to deal with route events causing an unstable performance of the whole MANET system. To deal such an uncertain problem within any MANET system, this paper presents a novel model called Parallel Load Balancing and Overlay authentication System for Secure Ad-hoc Communications. The model is designed to build up an over-layer to MANET system with those nodes in good condition, which is called strong peers in this paper and do the route job to avoid some bad situation like route fail or authentication fail. Simulation results comparing MANET system with and without the help of over-layer are provided to demonstrate the proposed model suitability for secure ad-hoc communications.

Keywords

• mobile ad-hoc networks
• security
• load balancing
• overlay authentication