Energy Efficient and Reputation Based CDS Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) face a number of challenges, in particular due to its energy consumption and dynamic network topology. A self organizing framework can overcome the problem of changing topology and dynamic behavior of mobile nodes. Such a framework can be created by using connected dominating set (CDS). But the choice of misbehaving node as CDS will affect the network performance. A misbehaving node may disturb the network by denying packet forwarding. In this paper we propose a heuristic for selecting CDS nodes in terms of energy and reputation factor. It identifies only well behaving and good quality nodes as dominant nodes for the construction of CDS.