Referencing Tool for Reputation and Trust in Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces a referencing tool that categorizes and simplifies access to information on reputation and trust in wireless sensor networks, aiding researchers and students in literature review.

Contribution

It presents a novel referencing method that consolidates reputation and trust information into a structured tool for easier research referencing.

Findings

Provides a categorized referencing framework for trust and reputation in WSNs

Simplifies literature review process for researchers and students

Proves beneficial for research in WSN trust characterization

Abstract

Presently, there are not many literatures on the characterization of reputation and trust in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which can be referenced by scientists, researchers and students. Although some research documents include information on reputation and trust, characterization of these features are not adequately covered. In this paper, reputation and trust are divided into various classes or categories and a method of referencing the information is provided. This method used results in providing researchers with a tool that makes it easier to reference these features on reputation and trust in a much easier way than if referencing has to be directed to several uncoordinated resources. Although the outcome of this work proves beneficial to research in the characterization of reputation and trust in WSNs, more work needs to be done in extending the benefits to other network systems.