Simple Trust Metric in a Low-Power Sensor Network

TL;DR

This paper introduces and evaluates a simple trust metric tailored for low-power sensor networks, comparing it to existing trust models to assess its effectiveness in ensuring reliability.

Contribution

It proposes a new simple trust metric specifically designed for low-power sensor networks and compares it with established trust models to evaluate performance.

Findings

The simple trust metric performs comparably to more complex models.

It meets the requirements for trust representation in low-power sensor networks.

The model is suitable for resource-constrained environments.

Abstract

Distributed systems become more and more important to our life. Especially in areas like Smart Home and the Internet of Things (IoT) reliable low-power sensor networks become increasingly important. For ensuring this there are a lot of trust metrics. In this paper we compare a model of a distributed low-power sensor network including one root node and the corresponding Simple Trust Metric to the requirements from "Representation of Trust and Reputation in Self-Managed Computing Systems" [1], the Weighted Trust Metric and the Weighted Simple Exponential Smoothing