An improved light-weight trust model in WSN

An improved light-weight trust model in WSN

Na Wang1, 2, Yanxia Pang2

COMPUTER MODELLING & NEW TECHNOLOGIES 2014 18(4) 57-61

1 MoE Engineering Center for Software/Hardware Co-design Technology and its Application, East China Normal University, No.3663 North Zhongshan Rd, Shanghai 200062, China
2 School of Computer and information, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, No. 2360 Jinhai Rd, Shanghai 201209, China


WSN is often deployed in unattended or even hostile environments. Therefore, providing security in WSN is a major requirement for acceptance and deployment of WSN. Furthermore, establishing trust in a clustered environment can provide numerous advantages. We proposed a light-weight trust model which considers data aggregation and communication failure due to wireless channels. It computes retransmission rate to get success, failed and uncertain value, and details the data in parameters to depend against attacks. With comparing our model with LDTS and Model using Trust Matrix, we conclude that our model has implemented a trade-off between detection rate and communication consumption.