Secure efficient routing based on network coding in the delay tolerant networks

Abstract

The Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is characterized with long delay, high bit-error rate, intermittent connectivity and frequent partitions. Due to this, network coding is introduced to improve its transmission performance significantly. Numerous DTN routing algorithms based on network coding have been developed. However, they are susceptible to various malicious attacks. In this paper, we propose a new kind of networking scheme suitable to the DTN, which can resist the eavesdropping attacks to a certain extant. Firstly, we establish a DTN network model based on the packet path optimization allocation algorithm and redefine the packet format to meet the algorithm requirements. Meanwhile, to resist the dropping attacks, the source node dynamically adds redundancy factors at the certain time. Then the pollution attacks and the data tampering attacks can almost be resisted by means of mutual authentication between intermediate nodes. This approach avoids the traditional anti-tampering attack algorithm over-reliant on the source node. The security analysis and simulation results show that our scheme can effectively resist the joint attacks and optimize the network performance.