Research Article

TBSMR: A Trust-Based Secure Multipath Routing Protocol for Enhancing the QoS of the Mobile Ad Hoc Network

Table 3

Performance comparison of the existing and proposed protocol.

Routing protocolsCongestion handlingData loss level (%)PDR (%)Malicious node detectionMultipath routingThroughput

Q-AODVYes1979NoNoModerate
Enhanced Ant-AODVYes1896NoNoLow
EMAODVYes2080NoYesModerate
Trust-based AODVNo1891YesNoHigh
EAODVNo1690NoNoLow
Proposed methodYes1098YesYesHigh