International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 81 - Number 3 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Amruta B. Pandule, Poonam N. Railkar, Parikshit N. Mahalle |
10.5120/13990-2006 |
Amruta B. Pandule, Poonam N. Railkar, Parikshit N. Mahalle . Review and Reputation based Trust Score Calculation for WLAN (RRTSC). International Journal of Computer Applications. 81, 3 ( November 2013), 6-11. DOI=10.5120/13990-2006
Wireless networks are becoming more and more popular nowadays. These are widely used because they are easy to deploy. As these networks are essentially decentralized in nature they enhance the resource sharing and collaboration. The anonymous and open nature of system offers an almost ideal environment for unauthorized access of resources and also prone to different attacks in the network. These systems have to challenge the attacks like man-in-the-middle, replay and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by anonymous malicious peers. So these systems have to protect themselves from these malicious nodes. For this purpose, before communication happens node must determine whether other nodes are trusted and in turn authorized to access resources or functionalities i. e. nodes must establish the trust before their interactions. Hence there is a need to have an effective Trust Management System which will establish a trust between the nodes in a network will update it periodically. This paper presents novel trust management model for trust score calculations to achieve trusted communication in WLAN network. This paper proposes a Review and Reputation based Trust Score Calculation (RRTSC) scheme for wireless networks and independent ad-hoc networks. This presents the trust based model for WLAN as an example of scenario of central authority assisted network which compute the trust for a node based in WLAN. In this trust establishment and trust maintenance between the two peers in WLAN is achieved by trusted central authority.