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A Formal Context Specific Trust Model (Ftm) For Multimedia And Ubiquitous Computing Environment, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Munirul M. Haque, Nilothpal Talukder

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

In order to ensure secure sharing of resources in an ad-hoc network of handheld devices in a multimedia and ubiquitous computing environment, mutual collaboration is essential. However, the limitations, such as poor storage and computational capability of these multimedia and ubiquitous devices stand as the bottleneck for effective sharing of resources. As a result of this drawback, the adversaries are obtaining access to the new doors for security breaches. Mutual Trust is the weapon used to combat security violations by restricting malicious devices from participating in any interaction in such an open and dynamic environment. In this paper, we present …