Coping with Node Misbehaviors in Ad Hoc Networks: A Multi-Dimensional Trust Management Approach
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2010-05-24
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Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Coping with Node Misbehaviors in Ad Hoc Networks: A Multi-Dimensional Trust Management Approach, The 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010), DOI: 10.1109/MDM.2010.57
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Abstract
Nodes in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are required to relay data packets to enable communication between other nodes that are not in radio range with each other. However, whether for selfish or malicious reasons, a node may fail to cooperate during the network operations or even attempt to disturb them, both of which have been recognized as misbehaviors. Various trust management schemes have been studied to assess the behaviors of nodes so as to detect and mitigate node misbehaviors in MANETs. Most of existing schemes model a node's trustworthiness along a single dimension, combining all of the available evidence to calculate a single, scalar trust metric. A single measure, however, may not be expressive enough to adequately describe a node's trustworthiness in many scenarios. In this paper, we describe a multi-dimensional framework to evaluate the trustworthiness of MANET node from multiple perspectives. Our scheme evaluates trustworthiness from three perspectives: collaboration trust, behavioral trust, and reference trust. Different types of observations are used to independently derive values for these three trust dimensions. We present simulation results that illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in several scenarios.