A Novel Trust Management Mechanism for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Based on Grey Theory

Trust management mechanism is a hot spot in the research of mobile Ad hoc network security. In view of the many problems of trust management mechanism in mobile hoc Ad networks, combining with the characteristics of mobile Ad hoc network, we present a mobile Ad hoc network trust management mechanism based on grey theory in this paper and apply it to the mobile Ad hoc network management in order to improve the availability and effectiveness of trust management mechanism and safeguard the security of mobile Ad hoc networks.