Amandeep Verma¹ and Manpreet Singh Gujra², ¹Punjabi University Regional Centre for IT & Mgmt., India and ²University College of Engineering, Punjabi University, India

An ad hoc network is a group of wireless mobile hosts that are connected momentarily through wireless connections in the dearth of any centralized control or some supporting services. The mobile ad hoc network is at risk by its environment because of the vulnerabilities at channel and node level. The conventional security mechanisms deals with only protecting resources from unauthorized access, but are not capable to safeguard the network from who offer resources. Adding trust to the on hand security infrastructures would improvise the security of these environments. A trust oriented security framework for adhoc network using ontological engineering approach is proposed by modeling ad hoc network, the OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) protocol and trust model as OWL (Ontology Web language) ontologies, which are integrated using Jena. In this model, a trustor can calculate its trust about trustee and use the calculated trust values to make decisions depending on the context of the application or interaction about granting or rejecting it. A number of experiments with a potential implementation of suggested framework are performed to validate the characteristics of a trust oriented model suggested by the literature by this framework

Ad hoc Network, Framework, Ontology, Trust