Toward a Trust Evaluation Mechanism in the Social Internet of Things

Sensors

Gyu Myoung Lee¹  Nguyen Binh Truong¹  Bob Askwith¹  Hyunwoo Lee² 

[1] Department of Computer Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK;Media Research Division, Broadcasting & Media Research Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon 34129, Korea;

关键词: trust;    trust concept;    REK trust evaluation model;    Social Internet of Things;    knowledge;    experience;    reputation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s17061346

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In the blooming era of the Internet of Things (IoT), trust has been accepted as a vital factor for provisioning secure, reliable, seamless communications and services. However, a large number of challenges still remain unsolved due to the ambiguity of the concept of trust as well as the variety of divergent trust models in different contexts. In this research, we augment the trust concept, the trust definition and provide a general conceptual model in the context of the Social IoT (SIoT) environment by breaking down all attributes influencing trust. Then, we propose a trust evaluation model called REK, comprised of the triad of trust indicators (TIs) Reputation, Experience and Knowledge. The REK model covers multi-dimensional aspects of trust by incorporating heterogeneous information from direct observation (as Knowledge TI), personal experiences (as Experience TI) to global opinions (as Reputation TI). The associated evaluation models for the three TIs are also proposed and provisioned. We then come up with an aggregation mechanism for deriving trust values as the final outcome of the REK evaluation model. We believe this article offers better understandings on trust as well as provides several prospective approaches for the trust evaluation in the SIoT environment.

【 授权许可】

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