A trust-based information assurance mechanism for military mobile ad-hoc networks

The article presents the concept of a novel mechanism for information assurance provision in tactical mobile ad-hoc networks that operate in disruptive and hostile environment. The authors provide a brief survey of related work and present their own concept, which include surroundings assessment, nodes behaviour classification, advanced inference method and authentication scheme performed at link layer. The concept was examined by simulation experiments and selected results are provided. The proposed system allows to increase the safety of communications and protect against degradation of MANET network resources.