Title :
Fundamental features of a unified trust model for distributed systems
Author :
Hall, Simin ; McQuay, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
Trust and trustworthiness are significant measurements of a distributed sensing system or a heterogeneous network comprised of sources of information, knowledge, hardware and software. In an effort to design a unified trust model that can be made adaptable to changing application environments, we present fundamental features and rules extracted from literature pertaining to wireless sensor networks, social networks, e-commerce, mobile ad-hoc, peer-to-peer, and distributed network services. The design constraints are: it must (a) support a heterogeneous network, (b) obtain and evaluate multiple trustworthiness measures, (c) be carried out with computational ease without extensive computational power from the sensor network, and (d) be conceptually simple but have a firm basis in theory.
Keywords :
distributed sensors; trusted computing; distributed network services; distributed sensing system; e-commerce; heterogeneous network; mobile ad-hoc; peer-to-peer; social networks; trustworthiness; unified trust model; wireless sensor networks; Bayesian methods; Computational modeling; Measurement; Peer to peer computing; Probability density function; Sun; Uncertainty; confidence; opinion; reputation; trus; trustworthiness;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON), Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1040-7
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.2011.6183091