An important challenge regarding peers’ trust valuation in peer-to-peer(P2P) systems was how to cope with such issues as dishonest feedbacks from malicious peers
collusions and complicatedly strategic frauds to the trust model itself
which could not be effectively tackled by the existing solutions.Thus
an incentive mechanism integrated trust management model for P2P networks
(IMTM) was proposed
to quantify and evaluate the trustworthiness of peers.Moreover
the related definitions and distributed implementation strategies of IMTM was also given.In IMTM
the recommendation credibility
composed of three factors
including the similarity characteristics
the altering scope of interaction experiences and the time fading feature of trust when interacting
was introduced to portray the extent to which the trustor trusted another recommender’s recommendations.Besides
the trusted service persistent intensity was imported to this model to promote peers to provide high-quality services to others continuously
and the risk mechanism was used to improve the sensitivity of this model.Additionally
based on the trust model
an adaptive reputation based incentive mechanism was presented.Through this mechanism
trusted peers could migrate to the centric position
while untrusted peers to the edge of the topology
incenting peers to provide more high-quality services in order to get more return on services.Theoretical analyses and experimental results demonstrate that IMTM has advantages in combating such malicious behaviors as the dishonest recommendations from malicious peers
collusions and the complicatedly strategic attacks to the trust model itself over the existing models