A Multi-Criteria Model for Users Trust Management in Ad-hoc Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract

Ad-hoc Mobile Cloud (AMC) came up as a result of the need to alleviate the inadvertent and incessant connectivity challenges that are experienced in Mobile Cloud computing (MCC). Thus, mobile devices teamed up in groups to share their resources among one another which are majorly Web Services, Storage and Computing resources. However, potential participants in AMC often feel a level of insecurity as they envisaged loss of control over various personal and confidential data in their mobile devices which can occur in the course of sharing of resources. Therefore, AMC as a service provisioning paradigm for mobile device users has a need for an implementation of a trust management system to serve as a protection and guarantee of confidence for intended AMC participants. This study proposed a Multi-Criteria Trust Management system (MCTM) architecture for AMC to protect the interest of various participating mobile devices. This system provides an avenue to identify trustworthy mobile devices to whom they can carry out resource sharing and as well alert or notify them of any malicious act that could have happened. We carried out a simple evaluation procedure with a number of incorrect service matches in the course of responding to a query as well as comparing the level of precision attained by the proposed architecture with already existing research. The proposed system proves to give a maximum confidence to mobile users to show high interest in participating in the AMC system.