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We observe that insider packet drop attacks will cause more consecutive packet drops than a network abnormality. Therefore, we propose the use of consecutive packet drops to speed up the detection of inside packet drop attackers. In this article, we describe a new trust model based on consecutive drops and develop a hybrid trust mechanism to seamlessly integrate the new trust model with existing trust models. We perform extensive OPNET (Optimized Network Engineering Tool) simulations using a geographic greedy routing protocol to validate the effectiveness of our new model. The simulation results show that our hybrid trust model outperforms existing trust models for all types of inside packet drop attacks, not only in terms of detection speed and accuracy as it is designed for, but also in terms of other important network performance metrics, such as packet delivery rate, routing reliability, and energy efficiency.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23094407","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,1]],"date-time":"2023-05-01T12:12:11Z","timestamp":1682943131000},"page":"4407","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["A Hybrid Trust Model against Insider Packet Drop Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1274-6291","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Youngho","family":"Cho","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Defense Science (Computer Engineering and Cyberwarfare Major), Graduate School of Defense Management, Korea National Defense University, Nonsan 33021, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Qu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"658","DOI":"10.1109\/SURV.2011.072210.00026","article-title":"Mitigating Packet Dropping problem in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Proposals and Challenges","volume":"13","author":"Djahel","year":"2011","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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