BaRMS: A Bayesian Reputation Management Approach for P2P Systems

Xuelian Long () and James Joshi ()
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Xuelian Long: School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
James Joshi: School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2011, vol. 10, issue 03, 273-283

Abstract: Current distributed Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications offer a variety of flexible and convenient services through the Internet to users from different geographic locations and also support enhanced communications and interactions among them. However, security and trust are the key concerns in such applications as users in such an environment are typically unknown to each other. Trust management systems aim to decrease the risks in such applications and protect benign users from malicious users. In this paper, we introduce six attack models and propose a novel Bayesian Reputation Management System (BaRMS) for P2P environments using Bayesian probability and Markov Chain theories. BaRMS handles both positive and negative feedback. Through a case study, we show that this approach is better than the existing EigenTrust framework for P2P systems. Moreover, our simulation results of a P2P file sharing system also show that the proposed algorithm can greatly improve the performance over a system that does not include a trust management service under various attack models. We show that our proposed Bayesian Reputation Computation Algorithm (BaRCA) performs better than the EigenTrust algorithm under various models.

Keywords: Reputation management; Bayesian model; Markov chain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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