Trust Evaluation Model of Social Internet of Things Based on Multi-relationships

Trust plays a vital role in ensuring the security of the Social Internet of Things. Due to the increased mobility of intelligent devices, there are frequent interactions between machines and changes in social relationships. It leads to a possible data sparsity problem in the Social Internet of Things. Therefore, it is presented that the trust evaluation model is based on various social relationships. The model considers the impact of multiple dynamically changing social relationships between nodes on trust. The implicit social relationship is mined based on the stated social relationship and potential attributes connecting nodes. It addresses the scarcity issue and the slow start of the Social Internet of Things. Simulations on the Santander Smart Cities dataset demonstrate that the approach improves the accuracy and convergence of trust evaluation in both sparse and regular networks.