Weightage based trusted QoS protocol in Mobile Adhoc Networks

Security and Quality are the two major aspects in MANETs to be addressed. Many articles have addressed these aspects independently. Very few have concentrated on the trade off between security and quality of MANETs, but lost their performance. The proposed method WBTQ (Weightage Based Trusted QoS Protocol) focuses on both the issues in parallel, it is providing secure environment by evaluating each node´s trustworthiness in the network instead of using high computational encryption algorithms without losing its performance. The WBTQ is the extension of OLSR protocol where node trust values and QoS metrics are propagated in the network through the HELLO packets. This protocol provides a flexible and feasible approach to the user in choosing a better route by giving weightage to Quality and Trust values.