MLRT: AN MYSTERIOUS LOCATION BASED EFFICIENT ROUTING PROTOCOL IN MANETS

Helensupriya M, Sebastin Christhu Raj A, Sharmila R

Abstract: Mysterious Location-based Efficient Routing Protocol (MLRT) is an anonymous routing protocol its play a vital role in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). MLRT provide a secure communication by hiding the node identities and preventing the traffic analysis attacks from outside observers in order to provide a mysterious protection. It dynamically partition the network into subzones till the sender and receiver are in different zones and the nodes in the zones are connected as intermediate relay nodes. It uses random relay node selection is difficult for intruder detection and dynamically generating an unpredictable routing path for a message. It maintains a time limit for message transmission due to security and control the time delay. MLRT offers mysterious protection to sources, destinations and routes. It achieves better route anonymity protection and lower cost compared to other anonymous routing protocols. It has a strategy to effectively solve the intersection attacks and avoid timing attacks because of its non-fixed routing paths for a source and destination pair. Also MLRT mainly works on Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (GPSR) algorithm.

Keywords: Mysterious, routing protocol, mobile ad hoc networks, GPSR.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303007