Service Discovery Based on Trustworthiness in MSNP: Major Issues, Potential Solutions, and Feasible Strategies

With the popularity of mobile Internet, smart phones and location-based services, Mobile Social Network in Proximity (MSNP) has attracted more and more attentions, for which trustworthy service discovery and its associated latency are two important issues. In this paper, after overviewing MSNP and trustworthiness for service discovery in MSNP, we discuss the major issues and potential solutions of trustworthy service discovery. We present trustworthiness determination strategies based on service provider candidates´ past experience and current profile analysis to reduce the latency caused by trustworthiness computation for trustworthy service discovery in MSNP.