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A Dynamic Trust Framework for Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks

Authors: Eric Ke Wang; Yueping Li; Yunming Ye; Siu-Ming Yiu; Lucas C. K. Hui;

A Dynamic Trust Framework for Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks

Abstract

Opportunistic mobile social network (OMSN) enables users to form an instant social network for information sharing (e.g., people watching the same soccer game can share their instant comments). OMSN is ad hoc in nature, thus relies on the cooperation of members regarding message transmission. However, some uncooperative or malicious behavior from abnormal members may reduce network performance, even damage the entire network. Currently, there does not exist effective mechanisms to detect selfish and malicious nodes. To tackle this problem, we propose a dynamic trust framework to facilitate a node to derive a trust value of another node based on the behavior of the latter. The novelty of our framework includes the following: 1) we design a new metric for a trust value of a node and 2) we propose a “two–hop feedback method” that requires intermediate nodes in a forwarding path to generate ACK messages to verify a node’s honesty if they are two hops away. In most existing trust models, final ACK messages are considered as critical factors. In OMSN, nodes are not fully connected and final ACK messages cannot be reliably received. In order to avoid the problem that few final ACK messages can be received, we propose a “two–hop feedback method.” Simulation results show that our approach is able to detect a majority of abnormal nodes including malicious nodes, selfish nodes, and those nodes launching conspiracy attacks. Thus, the entire network efficiency can be improved without negative impact of abnormal nodes. Besides, our trust framework can be easily applied to the current popular routing protocols of opportunistic networks.

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