Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc networks are extremely susceptible to various misbehaviours and a variety of trust management schemes have been proposed to detect and mitigate them. Trust computation and management are highly challenging issues in MANETs due to computational complexity constraints, and the independent movement of component nodes. Here an implementation based layered model for trust is proposed. The main goal is to cover all the questions that a programmer needs to design a trust based system. The model is divided into three layers which are data collection, trust calculation and application layer. Each layer has its specific functions which work in integrating manner with another layer in order to build a complete system.