Development of a Model for Trust Management in the Social Internet of Things

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved at a revolutionary pace in the last two decades of computer science. It is becoming increasingly fashionable for the IoT to be rebranded as the “Social Internet of Things” (SIoT), and this is drawing the attention of the scientific community. Smart items in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem can locate relevant services based on the social ties between neighbors. As a result, SIoT displays the interplay between various items as a problem in the context of the social IoT ecosystem. Navigating a network can be difficult because of the number of friends and the complexity of social ties. By identifying difficulties with standard SIoT devices’ interaction with social objects, truthful friend computing (TFC) is a new paradigm for tracing such difficulties by utilising a relationship management component to improve network navigability. The concept of trust management can be useful as a strategy during collaborations among social IoT nodes. As a result, the trustor can use a variety of measures to evaluate a smart object’s trustworthiness. Hence, this article demonstrates the need for the trustor to evaluate the extent to which a given metric has contributed to the overall trust score and illustrates profitability when engaging in a transaction with other nodes. With the help of the SIoT, this paper used a unified fuzzy-based computational technique and a multiple-criteria decision-making approach to evaluate the trust weights. The statistical findings show that the computing of “truthful friends” is the biggest challenge for successful SIoT implementation at the initial level.