Trust and reputation management for opportunistic dissemination

Nodes in opportunistic networks need to cooperate to disseminate data. However, employing intermediate nodes for dissemination leads to several security issues. Here, we propose an opportunistic trust and reputation mechanism entitled SAROS, which detects and avoids malicious nodes, i.e. nodes which...

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Published inPervasive and mobile computing Vol. 36; pp. 44 - 56
Main Authors Ciobanu, Radu-Ioan, Marin, Radu-Corneliu, Dobre, Ciprian, Cristea, Valentin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.04.2017
Subjects
Dissemination
Opportunistic
Reputation
Trust
Opportunistic
Reputation
Trust
Dissemination
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Summary:Nodes in opportunistic networks need to cooperate to disseminate data. However, employing intermediate nodes for dissemination leads to several security issues. Here, we propose an opportunistic trust and reputation mechanism entitled SAROS, which detects and avoids malicious nodes, i.e. nodes which, upon receiving messages for other interested peers, modify their content in order to spread false information. This can negatively affect the network, by polluting it with spam messages, or dropping messages of interest to the nodes in the network. By detecting and avoiding malicious nodes, SAROS is able to increase the percentage of correct messages that reach their destinations.
ISSN:1574-1192
1873-1589
DOI:10.1016/j.pmcj.2016.09.016