Mitigating Packet Dropping Nodes from MANETs due to System faults

Self-forming and adaptation characteristics make MANETs suitable to deploy at places where Infrastructure is hard to set up. It consists of peer-to-peer mobile nodes with heterogeneous resources. Applications of the networks include healthcare, disaster recovery, and the military. The data present in these applications is susceptible. High-level security mechanisms are required to protect the data. One of the attacks present at the network layer in MANETs is packet dropping by the intermediatory node during the communication. The number of Mitigation mechanisms devised to focus on the issue but fail to differentiate packet dropping is due to malicious behavior of the node or system fault. Thus, the paper aims to develop a mechanism that mitigates the packet-dropping nodes from the communication path, whether due to system faults or malicious. The proposed work is validated with a network simulator. The results demonstrate that the proposed work achieved the most outstanding throughput compared to the current work.