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Computer Communications 31 (2008) 4343–4351 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computer Communications journal homepage: www.else /locate/comcom A trust-based security system for ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments q Azzedine Boukerche, Yonglin Ren * School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1N 6N5 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Traditionally, authentication and access control based users are the main methods used to provide secu- Available online 25 May 2008 rity for individual computers and small networks. However, now that pervasive computing is encompass- ing new technologies and attracting more interest, these strategies are inadequate for meeting the special characteristics of ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments because such distributed systems Keywords: lack central control and have flexible topologies. Malicious nodes are a major threat during the construc- Pervasive security Trust tion of a reliable pervasive network. A reputation-based trust system can track the behavior of nodes and Community management thereby proceed by rewarding well-behaved nodes and punishing misbehaving ones. In this paper, we Trust modeling propose a security system based on trust management that involves developing a trust model, assigning Mob