An Adaptive RIPng Routing Protocol with Secure Packet Transmission in MANETs

In recent times, the interest for different multimedia applications such as video conferencing, surveillance system, and video on request service over Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) has been developing quickly. However, it is difficult for data transmission by satisfying end to-end delay requirements and security issues are distinct in MANETs because every node can act as the gateway, the topology is constantly changing, energy constrained operation and lack of centralized administration. Secure transmission without node failure in MANETs is an important issue. In order to rectify these traps, this article presents key-policy attribute based encryption (KP-ABE) to provide packet security from malicious clients and adaptive Routing Information Protocol next generation (RIPng) to identify the optimal path among autonomous energy constrained nodes by which routing overhead is reduced and it requires less communication cost during packet transmission. This novel method utilizes reliability matrix and connectivity matrix to identify the routes rather than the commonly utilized hop count thus minimizing time. Hence, a secure path is discovered with minimum time thus rectifying the issues in existing works. In addition to this, priority based scheduling operation is performed to organize packet according to their weights. The performance of the proposed scheme is surveyed with respect to different evaluation metrics in different node density levels and also under different routing attacks. The obtained result clearly describes the introduced scheme that provides adaptable and feasible decision to select the route that meets the security requirement of data packets transmission in MANET's environment.