An enhanced security-aware dynamic packet scheduling scheme for wireless networks using intelligent time slice-based krill herd algorithm

ABSTRACT

Wireless networks perform computing on grouped users together through networks that suffer with improper scheduling and less security awareness results in terms of bandwidth, increase in error rate, power constraints, authentication problem, etc. In order to tackle these problems, an enhanced security-aware dynamic packet scheduling is implemented by utilizing integrated speed packet scheduling which utilizes node distribution by the krill herd algorithm and packet evaluation by intelligent time slice, and reducing the dimensionality of packets with some evolutionary techniques for transmission. To protect these packets from attacks during transmission, the packets are secured by identifying the malicious node and protecting them with proper authentication by PKI (public key infrastructure) with the handshake of secure exchange of distributed signatures. The experimental execution in NS-3 simulator outcomes shows that the proposed system is more efficient in the packet delivery ratio and security than other existing techniques.

KEYWORDS:

• Krill herd algorithm
• intelligent time slice
• distributed signatures
• earliest deadline first
• scheduling algorithm
• encryption

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Surendra Singh

Surendra Singh received BE in information technology from JEC Jabalpur, India in 2008. He received M.Tech. Degree in computer science and engineering from MNNIT Allahabad, India in 2014 and currently pursuing his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. He is currently an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand, Srinagar. His research interest includes real-time packet scheduling and security.

Sachin Tripathi

Sachin Tripathi received his Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India. His research interest includes Group Security, Ad-hoc and Sensor Network, Artificial Intelligence.

Nitin Kumar

Nitin Kumar has done his Doctor of Philosophy from School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2015. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand since 2013. His current research areas are Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Salient Object Detection.