A Distributed Trust Management Scheme for Data Forwarding in Satellite DTN Emergency Communications

Satellite communications can be used when other communication systems are either destroyed or overloaded. Observation satellites and delay/disruption tolerant networks (DTNs) are technologies that can be interconnected to provide emergency communication for disaster recovery operations. DTNs use a s...

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Published in:IEEE journal on selected areas in communications 2018-02, Vol.36 (2), p.246-256
Main Authors: Asuquo, Philip, Cruickshank, Haitham, Ogah, Chibueze P. Anyigor, Ao Lei, Zhili Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ad hoc networks
Computational modeling
Delay tolerant networks
emergency
Monitoring
Peer-to-peer computing
Protocols
Routing
routing misbehaviour
trust management
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Satellite communications can be used when other communication systems are either destroyed or overloaded. Observation satellites and delay/disruption tolerant networks (DTNs) are technologies that can be interconnected to provide emergency communication for disaster recovery operations. DTNs use a store-carry-forward mechanism to forward messages through intermediary nodes to the destination node. The reliability of relaying messages through multi-hop nodes poses a significant problem in DTNs due to lack of consistent connectivity. These network characteristics make DTNs to heavily rely on the cooperation of neighboring nodes for the successful delivery of packets. However, the presence of malicious or selfish nodes will have a great impact on the network performance. In this paper, we design a decentralized trust management scheme (DTMS) to filter out malicious nodes in DTNs. First, the number of forwarding evidence is combined with the energy consumption rate of the nodes to formulate direct trust. Then, a recommendation trust is computed from the indirect trust, recommendation credibility, and recommendation familiarity. Recommendation credibility and familiarity improve the overall recommendation trust by filtering out dishonest recommendations. A comparative analysis of DTMS is performed against a cooperative watchdog scheme, recommendation based trust model, and spray and wait protocol. The results show that DTMS can effectively deal with malicious behaviors in DTNs including trust related attacks.
ISSN:0733-8716
1558-0008
DOI:10.1109/JSAC.2018.2804098