A Lightweight Trust Mechanism with Attack Detection for IoT

In this paper, we propose a lightweight and adaptable trust mechanism for the issue of trust evaluation among Internet of Things devices, considering challenges such as limited device resources and trust attacks. Firstly, we propose a trust evaluation approach based on Bayesian statistics and Jøsang...

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Published in:Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 25; no. 8; p. 1198
Main Authors: Zhou, Xujie, Tang, Jinchuan, Dang, Shuping, Chen, Gaojie
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2023
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Subjects:
Algorithms
Analysis
attack detection
Communication
Internet of Things
Lightweight
Multiple trusts
Sensors
Social networks
Trust
trust attack
trust mechanism
Trustworthiness
ISSN:1099-4300, 1099-4300
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Summary:In this paper, we propose a lightweight and adaptable trust mechanism for the issue of trust evaluation among Internet of Things devices, considering challenges such as limited device resources and trust attacks. Firstly, we propose a trust evaluation approach based on Bayesian statistics and Jøsang’s belief model to quantify a device’s trustworthiness, where evaluators can freely initialize and update trust data with feedback from multiple sources, avoiding the bias of a single message source. It balances the accuracy of estimations and algorithm complexity. Secondly, considering that a trust estimation should reflect a device’s latest status, we propose a forgetting algorithm to ensure that trust estimations can sensitively perceive changes in device status. Compared with conventional methods, it can automatically set its parameters to gain good performance. Finally, to prevent trust attacks from misleading evaluators, we propose a tango algorithm to curb trust attacks and a hypothesis testing-based trust attack detection mechanism. We corroborate the proposed trust mechanism’s performance with simulation, whose results indicate that even if challenged by many colluding attackers that can exploit different trust attacks in combination, it can produce relatively accurate trust estimations, gradually exclude attackers, and quickly restore trust estimations for normal devices.
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ISSN:1099-4300
1099-4300
DOI:10.3390/e25081198