Reputation System Based Trust-Enabled Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

In the continuously and rapidly evolving area of wireless communication, the field of wireless sensor networks (WSN) comes into the picture as a very hot area of research in all its aspects. WSN is a multi-hop network that is actually one type of ad hoc networks. However, WSN draws the special attention of researchers due to the fact that it exhibits more constraints and critical conditions than normal ad hoc networks in terms of power sources, computing capabilities, memory capacity and other factors. This requires different approaches and protocol engineering directions from those applied to normal ad hoc networks.