A Trust and Reputation System for IoT Service Interactions

Ammar Ayman Battah; Youssef Iraqi; Ernesto Damiani

doi:10.1109/TNSM.2022.3179875

A Trust and Reputation System for IoT Service Interactions

Ammar Ayman Battah, Youssef Iraqi, Ernesto Damiani

Electrical Engineering

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The rise of the Internet has enabled new types of relationships and online domains where trust must be computed rather than earned. However, classic trust and reputation techniques designed to support computational trust among Internet entities do not meet the scalability requirements and the resource constraints typical of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This paper provides a general framework for managing computational trust where Blockchain technology and reputation systems are used in conjunction. Our framework relies on a reward-penalty scheme to offer a customizable, secure, and scalable trust architecture for IoT devices and the services they access. We implemented and tested a smart contract-based proof-of-concept, carrying out an analysis of its cost and security to verify the practical viability of our solution.

Original language	British English
Pages (from-to)	2987-3005
Number of pages	19
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Volume	19
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2022.3179875
State	Published - 1 Sep 2022

Keywords

decentralized storage
distributed ledger
IoT
Reputation systems
smart contract

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