Jin-Hee Cho & Ananthram Swami , Army Research

Motivation Trust management is needed in MANETs with the goal of establishing a network with an acceptable level of trust relationships among participating nodes:
During network bootstrapping
To support coalition operation without predefined trust
For authentication for certificates generated by other parties when links are down
To ensuring safety when entering a new zone
Diverse applicability as a decision making mechanism for:
Intrusion detection
Key management
Access control
Authentication
Secure routing
Many others<br>

Trust in Communications & Networking Trust in Communications & Networking
A set of relations among entities participating in a protocol based on evidence generated by the previous interactions of entities within a protocol
If the interactions have been faithful to the protocol, then trust will accumulate between these entities
Context-aware trust: trust is the quantified belief of a trustor node regarding competence, honesty, security, and dependability of a trustee node in a specific context<br>

Trust, Trustworthiness, and Risk Assessment Definition (Trustworthiness): Trustworthiness is objective probability by which the trustee performs a given action on which the welfare of the trustor depends
Definition (Trust): Trust is the subjective probability by which the trustor expects that the trustee performs a given action on which the welfare of the trustor depends
Definition (Risk): risk is defined by the probability and the consequence of an incident. The risk value is given by the function r : P x C -> RV, where P is a set of trust values in [0,1], C is the set of consequence values and RV is the set of risk values. Trust Level [Solhaug et al., 2007]<br>

Trust vs. Risk Trust-based decision making: a trust threshold is used to say yes/no
yes when t > trust threshold (t2 in
the graph)
Risk-based decision making: a risk threshold is used to say yes/no
yes when r < high risk threshold (high risk zone in the graph)

In general when trust is high, risk is low but it really depends on the stake (consequence of failure). It is not enough to consider trust only and then say that trust is risk acceptance, trust is inverse to risk, or the like. Trust vs. Risk
[Solhaug et al. 2006,
Josang & LoPresti, 2004]<br>

Trust Properties in MANETs Dynamic, not static
Trust in MANETs should be established based on local, short-lived, fast changing over time, online only and incomplete information available due to node mobility or failure, RF channel conditions
Expressed as a continuous value ranging from positive and negative degree
Subjective
Different experiences derived from dynamically changing network topology
Not necessarily transitive
Asymmetric, not necessarily reciprocal
Heterogeneous entities
Context-dependent
Sensing/Reporting vs. forwarding Trust properties in MANETs. Trust properties in existing trust management in MANETs.<br>

Classification of Trust Management trust evidence collection, trust generation, trust distribution, trust discovery, and trust evaluation [Solhaug et al., 2006]<br>

Attacks in MANETs By the nature of attack and the types of attackers [Liu et al., 2004]
Passive Attacks: when an unauthorized party gains access to an asset but does not modify its content, (e.g., eavesdropping or traffic analysis)
Active Attacks : masquerading (impersonation attack), replay (retransmitting messages), message modification, DoS (e.g., excessive energy consumption)
By the legitimacy of attackers [Liu et al., 2004]
Insider attacks: authorized member
Outsider attacks: illegal user Attacks considered in existing trust management in MANETs.<br>

Metrics for Measuring Network Trust in MANETs Network trust has been evaluated by general performance metrics, e.g., detection accuracy, goodput (useful information bits/sec), throughput (data bits/sec), overhead, delay, network utility, route usage (for secure routing), packet dropping rate, etc.
Recently, trust level as a metric has been used, e.g., trust level of a network path or session Metrics used for evaluating network trust<br>

Composite Trust Metrics Quality-of-Service (QoS) Trust

Competence, dependability, reliability, successful experience, and reputation or recommendation representing capability to complete an assigned “task”
Examples are the node’s energy lifetime, computational power level, and capability to complete packet delivery Social Trust

Use of the concept of social networks
Friendship, similarity, common interest, social connectivity, honesty, and social reputation or recommendation derived from direct or indirect interactions<br>

Trust Management in MANETs based on Design Purpose Summary of existing trust management schemes in MANETs based on specific design purposes<br>

Trust-based Applications in MANETs Secure Routing
Detect and isolate misbehaving nodes (selfish or malicious)
Reputation management
Extension of the existing routing protocols (e.g., DSR, AODV) using trust concept
Incentive mechanism to induce cooperation
Revocation + redemption possible Authentication
Use trust to authenticate nodes or routing paths
Use direct evidence (certificates or observations of packet forwarding behavior) plus second hand information (e.g., recommendation)
Extension of the existing routing protocols (e.g., DSR, Zone Routing Protocol) Key Management
Establish keys between nodes based on their trust relationships
Trust-based PKI
Distributed - each node maintains its public/private keys
Hierarchical – a CA is elected based on trust<br>

Trust-based Applications in MANETs (Cont.) Intrusion Detection
Trust as a basis for developing an intrusion detection system (IDS)
Trust-based IDS provides audit and monitoring capabilities to enhance security
Evaluating trust and identifying intrusions can be integrated together to build a trustworthy environment Access Control
Use trust for decision making of access control to MANET resources
Trust-based admission control (role-based)
A node can use resources if it is trusted by k trusted nodes
Can integrate with policy-based access control (with a proof of identity or certificate)<br>

Issues for Future Trust Management in MANETs How should we select a trust metric that can reflect the unique properties of trust in MANETs?
What constitutes trust? Is it multi-dimensional with multiple trust components? Should we have a different set of trust components reflecting the application characteristics and node behavior (including selfish/malicious behavior)?
How can trust contribute to scalability, reconfigurability, security, and reliability of the network?
How should a trust protocol be designed to achieve adaptability to rapidly changing MANET environments?
How do we design a trust system to reflect adequate tradeoffs, e.g., altruism vs. selfishness, and effectiveness vs. efficiency?
Can we identify optimal trust protocol settings under various network and environmental conditions?<br>

Questions? Contact us at:

Jin-Hee Cho (jinhee.cho@arl.army.mil), Army Research Laboratory
Ananthram Swami (aswami@arl.army.mil) , Army Research Laboratory
Ing-Ray Chen (irchen@vt.edu), Virginia Tech<br>