Trust-aware anonymous and efficient routing for mobile ad-hoc networks

Anonymous routing is a value-added technique used in mobile ad hoc networks for the purposes of security and privacy concerns. It has inspired lot of research interest, but very few measures exist to trust-integrated cooperation for reliable routing. This paper proposes an optimistic routing protocol for the betterment of collaborative trust-based anonymous routing in MANET. The key features of our scheme are including of accomplishment of anonymity-related goals, trust-aware anonymous routing, effective pseudonym management and lightweight overhead in computation, communication and storage.