Parallel Load Balancing and Over-lay Authentication System for Secure Industrial Network Communications

Abstract

On one hand, being a highly self-establishing wireless network with dynamic topology, mobile adhoc
networks (MANET) are not constrained by limitations of fixed framework, and as a consequence,
MANETs are now used increasingly in a wide range of fields. On the other hand, flexibility, the typical
nature of MANET, making all nodes in an uncontrolled environment. Every node despite its
situation is equal to have an opportunity to deal with route events causing an unstable performance
of the whole MANET system. To deal such an uncertain problem within any MANET system, this
paper presents a novel model called Parallel Load Balancing and Overlay authentication System for
Secure Ad-hoc Communications. The model is designed to build up an over-layer to MANET system
with those nodes in good condition, which is called strong peers in this paper and do the route
job to avoid some bad situation like route fail or authentication fail. Simulation results comparing
MANET system with and without the help of over-layer are provided to demonstrate the proposed
model suitability for secure ad-hoc communications.