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AntTrust: An Ant-Inspired Trust Management System for Peer-to-Peer Networks.
Nehal Al-Otaiby1, Afnan Alhindi1, Heba Kurdi1,2
1Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 22, 2022
Summary
AntTrust, a novel peer-to-peer trust management system, efficiently identifies trustworthy file providers using an ant colony-inspired, problem-specific approach. It ensures stable, high success rates with low running times, even with malicious peers present.
Area of Science:
- Computer Science
- Network Security
- Distributed Systems
Background:
- Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks lack central control, making them vulnerable to malicious actors.
- Effective trust management is crucial for secure and reliable resource sharing in P2P environments.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose AntTrust, a novel, problem-specific trust management system for P2P networks.
- To evaluate AntTrust's performance against existing trust management systems.
Main Methods:
- Developed AntTrust, a trust management system inspired by ant colony behavior.
- Implemented a problem-dependent heuristic for identifying trustworthy peers.
- Assessed trustworthiness based on current trust, recommendation, feedback, and collective trust.
- Benchmarked AntTrust against EigenTrust, TNA-SL, and TACS.
Main Results:
- AntTrust demonstrated a higher and more stable success rate compared to rival systems.
- The system maintained low running times irrespective of the proportion of malicious peers.
- AntTrust effectively locates trustworthy file providers in dynamic P2P networks.
Conclusions:
- AntTrust offers a robust and efficient solution for trust management in P2P networks.
- The problem-specific heuristic enhances the performance of ant-inspired trust algorithms.
- AntTrust provides a reliable mechanism for secure resource sharing in decentralized systems.
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