Trust Management for Selecting Trustworthy Access Points
Both free and low-priced mobile wireless networks are expanding and its users are more numerous every day. This success is particularly due to the mobility offered to users. These networks have promoted and widespread the success and availability of mobile devices and their access technologies such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Bluetooth. Nevertheless, despite of their wide success, the problem is that those technologies do not match the everyday privacy and security requirements expected by the users. In this paper we focus on the Wi-Fi technology and we propose a reputation system that assesses the trust level of a Wi-Fi Access Point (AP). We obtain this trust level according to users past experiences. We have validated our proposed solution through simulation using the dynamic simulation tool AnyLogic and comparing the results of our solution to those of two previous well-known trust metrics: EigenTrust and Salem metrics.
Keywords: Wi-Fi, Trust Management, Reputation management
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