Communication and Content Trust Aware Routing For Clustered IoT Network

Abstract

Security has become a major concern in practical applications related to Internet of Things, a Trust Aware Routing is found as second line of defence. To ensure a secure and hassle-free communication in IoT, this paper proposes a new routing strategy called as Communication and Content Trust Aware Routing (CCTAR) for Clustered IoT network. CCTAR is applied on a clustered IoT network in which the entire nodes are clustered into different clusters. Distance, initial energy, transmission range, angle of overlap and the sensing range are the fur major metrics used to cluster the network into hierarchical clusters followed by Cluster Head Selection. Next, the Trust Aware routing computes three different trust metrics namely Nobility rust, bilateral trust and Data oriented trust to determine the trustworthiness of Cluster Heads. The experimental evaluation of the proposed mechanism shows its superiority in terms of malicious nodes identification, Storage overhead reduction and Network lifetime improvisation.