Distributed Trust Management Mechanism for the Internet of Things

Abstract:

Trust management provides a potential solution for the security issues of distributed networks. However, there are rare researches about the trust mechanism for IoT in the literature. A new distributed trust management mechanism for IoT is established in this paper. Firstly, we extract three basic elements-service, decision-making and self-organizing, of trust management from the investigated trust solutions. Then, based on a service model, we establish a trust management frame-work for the layered IoT, which is decomposed into three layers: sensor layer, core layer and application layer. Finally, we use fuzzy set theory and formal semantics-based language to perform the layered trust mechanism. The proposed trust conception, layered service model and formal method provide a general framework for the study of trust management for the IoT, and further provide a significant reference for the development of sound trust models for IoT.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 347-350)
• Pages: 2463-2467
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.347-350.2463
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Jing Pei Wang, Sun Bin, Yang Yu, Xin Xin Niu
• Keywords: Formal Semantics, Internet of Things (IOT), Trust Decision-Making, Trust Management

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