Improving Network Security in MANETS using IEEACK

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have attracted much attention due to their mobility and ease of deployment. However, the wireless and dynamic natures render them more vulnerable to various types of security attacks than the wired networks. The major challenge is to guarantee secure network services. We have identified the inadequate nature of EAACK in scenarios of link breakage, source maliciousness and partial packet dropping and hence we propose an improved algorithm called improved EAACK to tackle the security issues. High mobility of MANET nodes contributes to frequent link breakages in the network, which leads to path failures and route discovery processes. Route discovery is initialized through a broadcast mechanism usually. But, the overheads created through this cannot be neglected. The simulation results show that IEEACK scheme can prevent attacks from malicious nodes and improve the security performance of the whole network, especially in terms of the packet delivery ratio, the average end-to-end delay, the routing packet overhead and detection ratio of malicious nodes.