GlobalTrust: An attack-resilient reputation system for tactical networks

Xin Chen, Jin Hee Cho, Sencun Zhu

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Abstract

In a military tactical network where a trust authority (e.g., a commander) makes a decision during a mission, assessing the trustworthiness of participating entities accurately is critical to mission success. In this work, we propose a trust-based reputation management scheme, called GlobalTrust, for minimizing false decisions on the reputation of nodes in the network. In the proposed scheme, nodes may be compromised and provide incorrect opinions to the trust authority, who conducts reputation evaluation towards all nodes based on the provided opinions. GlobalTrust achieves three goals: (1) maintaining a consistent global view towards each node; (2) obtaining high resiliency against various attack patterns; and (3) attaining highly accurate reputation values of nodes. Through extensive simulations comparing GlobalTrust with other existing schemes, we show that GlobalTrust minimizes false decisions while maintaining high resilience against various attack behaviors. Specifically, under various attacks, GlobalTrust can achieve a highly accurate consistent view on nodes' reputations even when the number of malicious nodes is up to 40% of all participating nodes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2014 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking, SECON 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages275-283
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781479946570
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 16 2014
Event2014 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking, SECON 2014 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Jun 30 2014Jul 3 2014

Publication series

Name2014 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking, SECON 2014

Other

Other2014 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking, SECON 2014
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period6/30/147/3/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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