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Detecting Blackhole Nodes in IoT Environment using Logistic Regression-Based Trust-Based Security (LRTS)

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|Jul 2026

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Figure 1:

Overview of proposed work. EC, energy consumption; ED, end-to-end delay; IT, integrated trust; PDR, packet delivery ratio; RT, reputation trust; SGD, stochastic gradient descent.

Table 1:

Simulation parameters

ParameterValue
SimulatorNS3
Duration1000 s
Routing protocolsRPL, TRLS, David Airehrour et al. (2019)
No. of Nodes100
No. of untrusted nodes10%, 20%….80%
Traffic typeCBR
Propagation modelNakagami Model
Mobility modelRandom Waypoint
MAC typeIEEE 802.11
Mode of channelWireless
Data payload512 B/packet
Simulation area1000 m × 1000 m
Nodes’ speed5 – 10 – 15 – 20 – 25 (m/s)
Data rate10.4 Mbps
RPL parameterMinHopRankIncrease = 256
LR learning rate0.01
Number of iterations (training)1,000
Threshold0.5

[i] CBR, constant bit rate; LR, logistic regression; RPL, routing protocol for low-power lossy network.

Figure 2:

Influence of black hole nodes under normal RPL routing protocol. RPL, routing protocol for low-power lossy network.

Figure 3:

PDR versus % of blackhole nodes. LRTS, logistic regression-based trust-based security; PDR, packet delivery ratio; RPL, routing protocol for low power lossy networks.

Figure 4:

Average delay versus % blackhole nodes. LRTS, logistic regression-based trust-based security; RPL, routing protocol for low-power lossy networks.

Figure 5:

Routing overhead versus % of blackhole nodes. LRTS, logistic regression-based trust-based security; RPL, routing protocol for low power lossy networks.

Figure 6:

Detection accuracy versus % of blackhole nodes. LRTS, logistic regression-based trust-based security.

Language: English
Submitted on: May 12, 2025
Published on: Jul 11, 2026
Published by: International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 C. Balakumar, S. Vydehi, published by International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
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