Title: Removing dubious feedback from mobile wireless ad hoc peer-to-peer systems

Authors: Jinsong Han, Jizhong Zhao, Min Xi, Xingming Sun

Addresses: School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28, XianNing Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China. ' School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28, XianNing Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China. ' School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28, XianNing Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China. ' School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, 219 Ningliu Road, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China

Abstract: In MObile wireless ad hoc Peer-to-Peer NETworks (MOPNETs), Reputation-based Trust Management (RTM) is essential for peers to choose reliable resources and trusted cooperators. However, outliers or misbehaving peers often overpraise their friends while denigrating strange peers. As a result, it is challenging to guarantee the validation and accuracy of RTM In this paper, we propose an extensive RTM scheme, TruthMOP. TruthMOP encourages peers to provide honest feedback by involving the quality of their evaluations of others into computing reputations. The simulation results show that TruthMOP can effectively mitigate the impact of dubious feedback in MOPNETs.

Keywords: reputation; trust management; wireless networks; ad hoc networks; mobile networks; peer-to-peer networks; P2P networks; feedback; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2011.041626

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2011 Vol.8 No.1/2, pp.106 - 113

Published online: 28 Jul 2011 *

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