DualTrust: A distributed trust model for swarm-based autonomic computing systems

Wendy Maiden, Ioanna Dionysiou, Deborah Frincke, Glenn Fink, David E. Bakken

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Abstract

For autonomic computing systems that utilize mobile agents and ant colony algorithms for their sensor layer, trust management is important for the acceptance of the mobile agent sensors and to protect the system from malicious behavior by insiders and entities that have penetrated network defenses. This paper examines the trust relationships, evidence, and decisions in a representative system and finds that by monitoring the trustworthiness of the autonomic managers rather than the swarming sensors, the trust management problem becomes much more scalable and still serves to protect the swarm. We propose the DualTrust conceptual trust model. By addressing the autonomic manager's bi-directional primary relationships in the ACS architecture, DualTrust is able to monitor the trustworthiness of the autonomic managers, protect the sensor swarm in a scalable manner, and provide global trust awareness for the orchestrating autonomic manager.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security - 5th International Workshop, DPM 2010 and 3rd International Workshop, SETOP 2010, Revised Selected Papers
Pages188-202
Number of pages15
Volume6514 LNCS
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event5th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2010 and 3rd International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2010 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 23 Sept 201023 Sept 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6514 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other5th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2010 and 3rd International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2010
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period23/09/1023/09/10

Keywords

  • autonomic computing systems
  • DualTrust
  • mobile agent
  • reputation
  • Trust management

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