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Saving Privacy in Trust-Based User-Centric Distributed Systems

Authors:
Alessandro Aldini

Keywords: Cooperation incentives; trust; privacy; remuneration; user-centric networks; model checking.

Abstract:
User-centricity is a design philosophy subsuming new models of Internet connectivity and resource sharing, whose development is mainly driven by what users offer and require. To promote user-centric services and collaborative behaviors, incentives are needed that are typically based on trust relations and remuneration. In this paper, we show that privacy-preserving mechanisms can favor user's involvement if privacy can be traded with trust and cost. In particular, we present and evaluate formally a model ensuring an adequate level of flexibility among privacy, trust, and cost in the setting of distributed systems.

Pages: 76 to 81

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: November 16, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-376-6

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014