A Routing Misbehavior Detection and Mitigating Scheme Based on Reputation in Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks

The schemes detecting and mitigating routing misbehavior in other wireless networks are not suitable for Wireless Mesh Network (WMN), whereas the researchers do not pay much attention to WMN´s routing misbehavior. We present a new scheme for WMN in this paper. Differing from existing schemes, mobile client nodes do not add new functions, whereas mesh routers detect and mitigate routing misbehavior in WMN. Mesh routers obtain routing misbehavior information from source route field of packets based on Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). This scheme do not increase additional routing overhead, whereas it only increase computing overhead of mesh routers without power constraint. Simulation results are presented to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, which show the desirable feature of detecting and mitigating routing misbehavior.