A Subjective-trust based Trust Management Model in Ad Hoc Networks

摘要

Because of its flexible advantages, Ad Hoc networks had a good prospect in forest fire, flood control and other atrocious environment. However, its secure problem becomes a hot spot in current networks security research, and building a proper trust management in Ad Hoc is a chief scheme. The paper first investigates the character of Ad Hoc networks and security challenge of it, after introducing the drawbacks of previous trust managements, a new trust management based subjective trust in Ad Hoc networks and a detailed logical design are given, and we also give the details of subjective-trust function.