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題名 Motivating Content Sharing and Trustworthiness in Mobile Social Networks
作者 Awuor, Fredrick Mzee
Wang, Chih-Yu
Tsai, Tzu-Chieh
蔡子傑
貢獻者 資科系
關鍵詞 Collective bidding; content reputation; content sharing; hash-chained review; incentives; trust inference; mobile social networks
日期 2018
上傳時間 7-Nov-2018 17:05:25 (UTC+8)
摘要 Mobile social networks (MSNs) enable users to discover and share contents with each other, especially at ephemeral events such as exhibitions and conferences where users could be strangers. Nevertheless, the incentive of users to actively share their contents in MSNs may be lacking if the corresponding cost is high. Besides, as users in MSN share contents in an impromptu way as they move, it makes them vulnerable to malicious users who may want to disseminate false contents. This is because users may not have knowledge about the peers they are socially connecting with in the network. In this paper, we propose MCoST, a mechanism that motivates content sharing in MSN and ensures that only trustworthy contents are shared. The mechanism is built on users` collective bidding, content cost sharing, and trust evaluation while guaranteeing individual rationality. MCoST enables content providers to share contents with multiple users simultaneously by utilizing the broadcast nature of wireless transmission. The cost of the content is collectively compensated by the content receivers through the content bidding mechanism in MCoST. In ensuring that users can establish the trustworthiness of their encounters` contents, MCoST incorporates a robust trust evaluation framework that guarantees that content reviews are immutable and tamper-proof, resistive to sybil, and rejection attacks, and that users cannot have multiple and fake identities in the network or reject negative reviews about their contents. This is achieved by integrating a distributed cryptographic hash-chained content review mechanism in the design of MCoST. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed mechanism efficiently evaluates contents` trustworthiness by detecting and discriminating review-chains under sybil or rejection attacks and reduces the time and cost to collect the desired contents by 86% and 40%, respectively, and improves network utilization by 50%.
關聯 IEEE ACCESS, 6, 28339-28355
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2834359
dc.contributor 資科系
dc.creator (作者) Awuor, Fredrick Mzee
dc.creator (作者) Wang, Chih-Yu
dc.creator (作者) Tsai, Tzu-Chieh
dc.creator (作者) 蔡子傑
dc.date (日期) 2018
dc.date.accessioned 7-Nov-2018 17:05:25 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 7-Nov-2018 17:05:25 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 7-Nov-2018 17:05:25 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/120843-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Mobile social networks (MSNs) enable users to discover and share contents with each other, especially at ephemeral events such as exhibitions and conferences where users could be strangers. Nevertheless, the incentive of users to actively share their contents in MSNs may be lacking if the corresponding cost is high. Besides, as users in MSN share contents in an impromptu way as they move, it makes them vulnerable to malicious users who may want to disseminate false contents. This is because users may not have knowledge about the peers they are socially connecting with in the network. In this paper, we propose MCoST, a mechanism that motivates content sharing in MSN and ensures that only trustworthy contents are shared. The mechanism is built on users` collective bidding, content cost sharing, and trust evaluation while guaranteeing individual rationality. MCoST enables content providers to share contents with multiple users simultaneously by utilizing the broadcast nature of wireless transmission. The cost of the content is collectively compensated by the content receivers through the content bidding mechanism in MCoST. In ensuring that users can establish the trustworthiness of their encounters` contents, MCoST incorporates a robust trust evaluation framework that guarantees that content reviews are immutable and tamper-proof, resistive to sybil, and rejection attacks, and that users cannot have multiple and fake identities in the network or reject negative reviews about their contents. This is achieved by integrating a distributed cryptographic hash-chained content review mechanism in the design of MCoST. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed mechanism efficiently evaluates contents` trustworthiness by detecting and discriminating review-chains under sybil or rejection attacks and reduces the time and cost to collect the desired contents by 86% and 40%, respectively, and improves network utilization by 50%.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) IEEE ACCESS, 6, 28339-28355
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Collective bidding; content reputation; content sharing; hash-chained review; incentives; trust inference; mobile social networks
dc.title (題名) Motivating Content Sharing and Trustworthiness in Mobile Social Networksen_US
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2834359
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2834359