Dynamic trust management for internet of things applications

  • Authors:
  • Fenye Bao;Ing-Ray Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 international workshop on Self-aware internet of things
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a dynamic trust management protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) systems to deal with misbehaving nodes whose status or behavior may change dynamically. We consider an IoT system being deployed in a smart community where each node autonomously performs trust evaluation. We provide a formal treatment of the convergence, accuracy, and resilience properties of our dynamic trust management protocol and validate these desirable properties through simulation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our dynamic trust management protocol with a trust-based service composition application in IoT environments. Our results indicate that trust-based service composition significantly outperforms non-trust-based service composition and approaches the maximum achievable performance based on ground truth status. Furthermore, our dynamic trust management protocol is capable of adaptively adjusting the best trust parameter setting in response to dynamically changing environments to maximize application performance.