The Application of Fuzzy Logic Controller to Compute a Trust Level for Mobile Agents in a Smart Home

Nasution, S. and Suryana, N. and Shahib, S. and Abu, N.A. and Hartel, P.H. (2009) The Application of Fuzzy Logic Controller to Compute a Trust Level for Mobile Agents in a Smart Home. In: International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), 9-11 March 2009, Valencia, Spain.

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Abstract:	Agents that travel through many hosts may cause a threat on the security of the visited hosts. Assets, system resources, and the reputation of the host are few possible targets for such an attack. The possibility for multi-hop agents to be malicious is higher compared to the one-hop or two-hop boomerang agents. The travel history is one of the factors that may allow a server to evaluate the trustworthiness of an agent. This paper proposes a technique to define levels of trust for multi-hop agents that are roaming in a smart home environment. These levels of trust are used later to determine actions taken by a host at the arrival of an agent. This technique uses fuzzy logic as a method to calculate levels of trust and to define protective actions in regard to those levels.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Distributed and Embedded Systems (DIES)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/65472
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