Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks are especially helpful and quite well for essential circumstances such as defense, public safety, and disaster recovery. MANETs require communication privacy and security, notably in core routing protocols, when functioning in hostile or suspicious environments. The Trust Aware Privacy-Preserving Protocol (TAP3) is a mechanism for supporting the origin in proactively selecting a trust-able target and doing privacy-preserving route verification. We suggest TAP3 using the fellow recommendation model for MANETs in this work. Nodes use their features to discover their fellow node and use the trust to create strong connections with the random node via a multi-hop trusting chain by identifying the secure location. The verification duties are then spread among the nodes and validate the log updates without exposing the nodes' details. Unlike previous models that uncover node vulnerabilities or misconduct after an attack, TAP3 may guarantee the origin node to prevent data from being transferred through malicious nodes from the beginning and do verification without needing a third party. Our results show that this approach can locate problematic nodes with minimal overhead than the conventional routing protocol.

翻译：无线自组织网络在国防、公共安全和灾难恢复等关键场景中具有重要实用价值。当移动自组网（MANET）运行于敌对或可疑环境时，其核心路由协议必须确保通信隐私与安全性。信任感知隐私保护协议（TAP3）是一种支持源节点主动选择可信目标并进行隐私保护路由验证的机制。本文提出基于伴荐模型的TAP3方案，节点利用自身特征发现伴节点，通过多跳信任链建立与随机节点的强关联，并识别安全位置。验证任务随后分散至各节点，在无需暴露节点细节的前提下完成日志更新校验。与现有模型在攻击发生后才能发现节点漏洞或不当行为不同，TAP3可确保源节点从初始阶段即阻止数据经恶意节点传输，且验证过程无需第三方介入。实验结果表明，相较于传统路由协议，本方法能以更低开销识别问题节点。