Internet of things: Where to be is to trust

Abstract

Networks’creation is getting more and more required, anytime, anywhere. Devices that can participate on thesenetworks can be quite different among them. Sensors, mobiles, home appliances, or other type of devices will haveto collaborate to increase and improve the services provided to clients. In the same way, network configuration,security mechanisms establishment, and optimal performance control must be done by them. Some of thesedevices could have limited resources to work, sometimes even resources restriction not existing, they must work tooptimize network traffic. In this article, we center our researching on spontaneous networks. We propose a securespontaneous ad-hoc network, based on direct peer-to-peer interaction and communities’creation to grant a quick,easy, and secure access to users to surf the Web. Each device will have an identity in the network. Each communitywill also have an identity and will act as a unity on a world based on Internet connection. Security will beestablished in the moment they access to the network through the use of the trust chain generated by nodes.Trust is modified by each node on the basis of nodes behavior.