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Trust-Aware Routing Mechanism through an Edge Node for IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks

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posted on 2023-08-01, 14:30 authored by Alaa Saleh, Pallavi Joshi, Rajkumar Singh Rathore, Sandeep Singh SengarSandeep Singh Sengar

 Although IoT technology is advanced, wireless systems are prone to faults and attacks. The replaying information about routing in the case of multi-hop routing has led to the problem of identity deception among nodes. The devastating attacks against the routing protocols as well as harsh network conditions make the situation even worse. Although most of the research in the literature aim at making the IoT system more trustworthy and ensuring faultlessness, it is still a challenging task. Motivated by this, the present proposal introduces a trust-aware routing mechanism (TARM), which uses an edge node with mobility feature that can collect data from faultless nodes. The edge node works based on a trust evaluation method, which segregates the faulty and anomalous nodes from normal nodes. In TARM, a modified gray wolf optimization (GWO) is used for forming the clusters out of the deployed sensor nodes. Once the clusters are formed, each cluster’s trust values are calculated, and the edge node starts collecting data only from trustworthy nodes via the respective cluster heads. The artificial bee colony optimization algorithm executes the optimal routing path from the trustworthy nodes to the mobile edge node. The simulations show that the proposed method exhibits around a 58% hike in trustworthiness, ensuring the high security offered by the proposed trust evaluation scheme when validated with other similar approaches. It also shows a detection rate of 96.7% in detecting untrustworthy nodes. Additionally, the accuracy of the proposed method reaches 91.96%, which is recorded to be the highest among the similar latest schemes. The performance of the proposed approach has proved that it has overcome many weaknesses of previous similar techniques with low cost and mitigated complexity. 

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Sensors

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MDPI

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Saleh, Alaa, Pallavi Joshi, Rajkumar Singh Rathore, and Sandeep Singh Sengar. (2022) 'Trust-Aware Routing Mechanism through an Edge Node for IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks', Sensors 22, no. 20: 7820. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22207820

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1424-8220

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Rajkumar Singh Rathore Sandeep Singh Sengar

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  • en

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