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Impact of Sybil attacks on Web services trust assessment
International Conference on Protocol Engineering, ICPE 2015 and International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems, NTDS 2015 - Proceedings
  • Zohra Saoud, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • Noura Faci, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University
  • Djamal Benslimane, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-6-2015
Abstract

© 2015 IEEE. This paper discusses how Sybil attacks can undermine trust management systems and how to respond to these attacks using advanced techniques such as credibility and probabilistic databases. In such attacks end-users have purposely different identities and hence, can provide inconsistent ratings over the same Web Services. Many existing approaches rely on arbitrary choices to filter out Sybil users and reduce their attack capabilities. However this turns out inefficient. Our approach relies on non-Sybil credible users who provide consistent ratings over Web services and hence, can be trusted. To establish these ratings and debunk Sybil users techniques such as fuzzy-clustering, graph search, and probabilistic databases are adopted. A series of experiments are carried out to demonstrate robustness of our trust approach in presence of Sybil attacks.

ISBN
9781467392655
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Cost accounting,
  • Gold,
  • Nickel,
  • Protocols,
  • Radio frequency,
  • Robustness,
  • Web services
Scopus ID
84962205505
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1109/NOTERE.2015.7293495
Citation Information
Zohra Saoud, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar and Djamal Benslimane. "Impact of Sybil attacks on Web services trust assessment" International Conference on Protocol Engineering, ICPE 2015 and International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems, NTDS 2015 - Proceedings (2015) - 6
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zakaria-maamar/397/