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BD-Trust: behavioural and data trust management scheme for internet of things

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The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) has paved the way to realize ubiquitous access to manifold services and applications. Effective utilization of these services vitally demands secure deployment of IoT systems where data or information can be transmitted without worrying about the uncertainty of different devices in the system. Trust Management Systems (TMS) have proved themself as impressive solutions to attain this security requirement where entities are judged based on their behavior. For IoT, influential deployment of TMS requires coping with characteristics of IoT systems such as device heterogeneity, context-awareness, dynamicity, etc. Paying attention to the quality of received data for reliable service composition and accurate assessment is also a matter of concern. This paper presents a direct observation-based distributed trust management scheme, called BD-Trust, in which trust is measured by integrating behavioral trust of devices with the data trust. For evaluation of behavioral trust, BD-Trust reckons on three trust parameters, namely success rate, satisfaction level, and credibility. Data trust is measured considering consistency in received data values for the successful interaction responses. BD-Trust employs a trust update mechanism to alleviate the effect of malicious devices that try to disrupt the process of trust management. An adaptive decay factor has been designed to reflect previously observed trust value in recent computation while updating trust scores. The effectiveness of BD-Trust has been validated through simulation experiments and results have been compared with two state-of-art schemes for trust convergence, assessment accuracy, and resilience against attacks, considering a dynamic environment.

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    Avani Sharma, Emmanuel S. Pilli & Arka P. Mazumdar

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Sharma, A., Pilli, E.S. & Mazumdar, A.P. BD-Trust: behavioural and data trust management scheme for internet of things. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 14, 16195–16207 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-022-03841-w

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