Collaborative service evaluation with the TwoHop trust framework

Security and Communication Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 594-613

  Glynos, Dimitris ^a   Argyroudis, Patroklos ^b   Douligeris, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b Census Inc   (Greece)

Author keywords

Peer to peer networks; Security; Service oriented trust evaluation; Trust metric

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

CALCULATION ALGORITHMS; CALCULATION PROCESS; COLLABORATIVE SERVICES; COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; SECURITY; TRUST EVALUATION; TRUST METRICS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84862103909     PISSN: 19390114     EISSN: 19390122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sec.355     Document Type: Article

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