Repute Relationships for Reputation Management in Peer-to-Peer Communication--Ⅱ

摘要

Trust between two communicating peers is increasingly catching the attention of the research community. Several trust models and trust management protocols have been proposed to assist the task of establishing trust between two communicating peers. Allt he proposed trustm odels make use of reputation mechanisms in order to establish trust between the two communicating peers. However, the currently proposed trust models consume a lot of bandwidth in order to find out the reputation of a peer. In this paper, we propose the use of repute relationships as a mechanism for countering this problem. We present a formal definition of repute relationships and discuss how the use of repute relationships has the potentialt o reduce the bandwidth needed to determine the reputation of a peer.