Intelligent Approach of Packet Drop Mitigation in Wireless Infrastructure- Less Networks due to system fault and Malicious Nature

Wireless Infrastructure-Less Networks comprise of the features such as Adaptation and self-forming, due to which one can establish the network regardless of geographical location. The network aims to enable connectivity anywhere and any place. The network applications are Health care, military, and disaster recovery. The applications are sensitive, and secure communication is a challenging and vital issue, as one wrong message can affect the objective of the application. The routing process is responsible for computing the path and forwarding the information through the calculated route to enable communication in any network. However, network routing is challenging and vulnerable due to its peer-to-peer nature. One of the routing problems in the network is packet dropping, which could be due to selfishness, malicious nature, or system fault. Different mechanisms are designed to prevent packet drops in the network, but they could not differentiate whether the packet drops were due to malicious reasons or system faults. The Paper aims to design an intelligent mechanism to mitigate packet drops from the network by differentiating packet drops' causes. The proposed work validated with a network simulator, and results show that the proposed mechanism effectively prevents packets drop from the network.