Can We Trust Trust Management Systems?
The Internet of Things is enriching our life with an ecosystem of interconnected devices. Object cooperation allows us to develop complex applications in which each node contributes one or more services. Therefore, the information moves from a provider to a requester node in a peer-to-peer network....
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| description | The Internet of Things is enriching our life with an ecosystem of interconnected devices. Object cooperation allows us to develop complex applications in which each node contributes one or more services. Therefore, the information moves from a provider to a requester node in a peer-to-peer network. In that scenario, trust management systems (TMSs) have been developed to prevent the manipulation of data by unauthorized entities and guarantee the detection of malicious behaviour. The community concentrates effort on designing complex trust techniques to increase their effectiveness; however, two strong assumptions have been overlooked. First, nodes could provide the wrong services due to malicious behaviours or malfunctions and insufficient accuracy. Second, the requester nodes usually cannot evaluate the received service perfectly. For this reason, a trust system should distinguish attackers from objects with poor performance and consider service evaluation errors. Simulation results prove that advanced trust algorithms are unnecessary for such scenarios with these deficiencies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-efb0479e9e7c44a785f5442da8c99d172023-11-23T17:12:08ZengMDPI AGIoT2624-831X2022-03-013226227210.3390/iot3020015Can We Trust Trust Management Systems?Claudio Marche0Michele Nitti1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE), University of Cagliari, Via Marengo 3, 09123 Cagliari, ItalyDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE), University of Cagliari, Via Marengo 3, 09123 Cagliari, ItalyThe Internet of Things is enriching our life with an ecosystem of interconnected devices. Object cooperation allows us to develop complex applications in which each node contributes one or more services. Therefore, the information moves from a provider to a requester node in a peer-to-peer network. In that scenario, trust management systems (TMSs) have been developed to prevent the manipulation of data by unauthorized entities and guarantee the detection of malicious behaviour. The community concentrates effort on designing complex trust techniques to increase their effectiveness; however, two strong assumptions have been overlooked. First, nodes could provide the wrong services due to malicious behaviours or malfunctions and insufficient accuracy. Second, the requester nodes usually cannot evaluate the received service perfectly. For this reason, a trust system should distinguish attackers from objects with poor performance and consider service evaluation errors. Simulation results prove that advanced trust algorithms are unnecessary for such scenarios with these deficiencies.https://www.mdpi.com/2624-831X/3/2/15trustworthiness managementInternet of Thingsattacks on trust |
| spellingShingle | Claudio Marche Michele Nitti Can We Trust Trust Management Systems? IoT trustworthiness management Internet of Things attacks on trust |
| title | Can We Trust Trust Management Systems? |
| title_full | Can We Trust Trust Management Systems? |
| title_fullStr | Can We Trust Trust Management Systems? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can We Trust Trust Management Systems? |
| title_short | Can We Trust Trust Management Systems? |
| title_sort | can we trust trust management systems |
| topic | trustworthiness management Internet of Things attacks on trust |
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