Trust Evaluation Model for Internet of Things using Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Internet of Things (IoT) is a theory that embraces various objects and methods of communication to exchange information. Today, IoT is more a descriptive term of a vision that everything should be linked to the internet. As many as the advantages of IoT, its uniqueness poses a new problem in establishing a trustworthy environment amid some of the items due to the lack of appropriate implementation machineries. However, some common network security measures are not adequate to preserve the integrity of information and services exchanged over the internet. As a result, they remain vulnerable to threats ranging from cyber-physical layer and social layer data management risks. IoT in smart environments interrelates with mobile ad hoc network (MANET), becoming even more attractive and economically successful. This research proposes two different metrics approaches namely Social trust metrics and Quality of Service to evaluate the trustworthiness of IoT Applications using MANET nodes and designing trust metrics that are computed using multiple properties of trust and quality of service. A model would be designed and simulated in NS-2. The findings of the investigation into the evaluation of trustworthiness and network performance are presented. The proposed system model has 99.31% accuracy when there were 10%malicious nodes in the network. When the number of misbehaving nodes was increased to 50%, the accuracy level dropped to 98.75 percent, a difference of only 0.56%. The results show that the security and trustworthiness of the proposed system is an improvement over the existing models like Collaborative Reputation (CORE) trust model and Ant Based Evidence Distribution (trust) model. The proposed model can be used to address security challenges in a network environment. Keywords— Confidence, Honesty, IoT, MANET, QoS, Trustworthiness.