An Improved Trust Model Based on Interactive Ant Algorithms and Its Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks

Marmol et al.'s ant algorithm based trust model is improved from several aspects: new interactive ant algorithm, new node types, more reasonable meta-assumption on node behaviors, new trust evaluation function, new penalty mechanism, and so on. Simulations on identifying malicious nodes and ele...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yun Pan, Yafang Yu, Li Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi - SAGE Publishing 2013-07-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/764064