SORT: A Self-Organizing Trust Model for Peer-to-Peer Systems

SORT: A Self-Organizing Trust Model for Peer-to-Peer Systems

ABSTRACT:

Open nature of peer-to-peer systems exposes them to malicious activity. Building trust relationships among peers can mitigate attacks of malicious peers. This paper presents distributed algorithms that enable a peer to reason about trustworthiness of other peers based on past interactions and recommendations. Peers create their own trust network in their proximity by using local information available and do not try to learn global trust information. Two contexts of trust, service, and recommendation contexts are defined to measure trustworthiness in providing services and giving recommendations. Interactions and recommendations are evaluated based on importance, recentness, and peer satisfaction parameters. Additionally, recommender’s trustworthiness and confidence about a recommendation are considered while evaluating recommendations. Simulation experiments on a file sharing application show that the proposed model can mitigate attacks on 16 different malicious behavior models. In the experiments, good peers were able to form trust relationships in their proximity and isolate malicious peers.

EXISTING SYSTEM:

In the existing system of an authority, a central server is a preferred way to store and manage trust information, e.g., eBay. The central server securely stores trust information and defines trust metrics. Since there is no central server in most P2P systems, peers organize themselves to store and manage trust information about each other. Management of trust information is dependent to the structure of P2P network. In distributed hash table (DHT) - based approaches, each peer becomes a trust holder by storing feedbacks about other peers. Global trust information stored by trust holders can be accessed through DHT efficiently. In unstructured networks, each peer stores trust information about peers in its neighborhood or peers interacted in the past. A peer sends trust queries to learn trust information of other peers. A trust query is either flooded to the network or sent to neighborhood of the query initiator.

DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM:

Ø Calculated trust information is not global and does not reflect opinions of all peers.

Ø Classifying peers as either trustworthy or untrustworthy is not sufficient in most cases. Metrics should have precision so peers can be ranked according to trustworthiness.

Ø Trust models on P2P systems have extra challenges comparing to e-commerce platforms. Malicious peers have more attack opportunities in P2P trust models due to lack of a central authority

Ø Five common attacks in P2P trust models: self-promoting, white-washing, slandering, orchestrated, and denial of service attacks.

PROPOSED SYSTEM:

In the proposed system, we introduce a Self-Organizing Trust model (SORT) that aims to decrease malicious activity in a P2P system by establishing trust relations among peers in their proximity. No a priori information or a trusted peer is used to leverage trust establishment. Peers do not try to collect trust information from all peers. Each peer develops its own local view of trust about the peers interacted in the past. In this way, good peers form dynamic trust groups in their proximity and can isolate malicious peers. Since peers generally tend to interact with a small set of peers forming trust relations in proximity of peers helps to mitigate attacks in a P2P system.

ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM:

Recommendation-based attacks were contained except when malicious peers are in large numbers, e.g., 50 percent of all peers. Experiments on SORT show that good peers can defend themselves against malicious peers metrics let a peer assess trustworthiness of other peers based on local information. Service and recommendation contexts enable better measurement of trustworthiness in providing services and giving recommendations.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE:

ALGORITHMS USED:

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:-

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION:-

ü Processor             -        Pentium –IV

ü Speed                             -        1.1 Ghz

ü RAM                    -        256 MB(min)

ü Hard Disk            -        20 GB

ü Key Board            -        Standard Windows Keyboard

ü Mouse                  -        Two or Three Button Mouse

ü Monitor                -        SVGA

 

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:-

ü Operating System                    :         Windows XP

ü Programming Language           :         ASP.NET,C#.NET

ü DATABASE                           :         SQL SERVER 2005

ü Tool                                         :         Visual Studio 2008.

REFERENCE:

Ahmet Burak Can, Member, IEEE, and Bharat Bhargava, Fellow, IEEE-“SORT: A Self-ORganizing Trust Model for Peer-to-Peer Systems”- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING, VOL. 10, NO. 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013.