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Dynamic trust management for secure communications in social internet of things (SIoT)

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The world has faced three Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolutions and the third ICT wave led to Internet of Things, the notion of anything, everything, anytime and everywhere. Out of the many visions of IoT, one revolutionary concept is to make IoT sociable i.e., incorporating social networking within Internet of Things. This revolution has led to the notion of Social Internet of Things (SIoT). Establishing a SIoT network or community is not so simple and requires integration of heterogeneous technology and communication solutions. This paper focuses on establishing a secure and reliable communication over nodes in SIoT by computing trust dynamically among neighboring nodes. Trust Management is an important area that has attracted numerous researchers over the past few years. The proposed DTrustInfer computes trust based on first hand observation, second hand observation, centrality and dependability factor of a node. Properties of trust such as honesty, cooperativeness, community interest and energy of a node are considered for computing trust. Also, this paper ensures secure communication among SIoT nodes through simple secret codes. Experimental results show that the proposed DTrustInfer outperforms the existing trust models significantly.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, 641013, India

    A Meena Kowshalya

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Alagappa Chettiar Government College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, 630003, India

    M L Valarmathi

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Meena Kowshalya, A., Valarmathi, M.L. Dynamic trust management for secure communications in social internet of things (SIoT). Sādhanā 43, 136 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-018-0885-z

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