Using Trust and Reputation Information to Choose Both Request Responders and Servers in Peer-to-Peer Networks

In current reputation-based trust models for P2P applications trust and reputation information are mainly used to choose service providers, they are helpless when facing this malicious attack: malicious nodes respond received queries at random in spite of whether it locally has queried resources. Once they are chosen as a provider, they will transmit a fake, even a malicious file. We present a hierarchical, especially reputation-based two-level trust model. In our model trust and reputation information are used to choose both request responders and service providers. So our model can restrain malicious behaviors from the headstream and withstand this attack. Furthermore in our model peers can receive more and better services; trust value in node can be concentrated at a considerable fast speed and malicious nodes can be identified quickly.