Enhanced Security in MANETs Using AODV Protocol

This research study introduces an innovative security approach for MANETs to use with the AODV (Adhoc On-Demand Distance Vector) routing protocol, which can protect against attacks like the explicit packet-dropping assault and the implicit packet-dropping attack. The first iteration of the AODV routing protocol had no safeguards in place. As a result, it can’t defend itself against any kind of cyberattack. There are several safeguards available, therefore AODV is completely safe. Attackers in a network can be reduced using the same detection technologies that can find them. The topic was investigated further, and a catastrophic fault in all current safe routing techniques was discovered. Thus, present security measures are labor-intensive and call for an intricate key-management architecture. Using digital signatures and a hash chain, we introduce a new approach to protecting the AODV routing system in this study. This method protects itself from untrusted or malicious nodes with minimum performance hits.