A Fuzzy Approach to Trust Management in Fog Computing

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) technology has revolutionized the world where anything is smartly connected and is accessible. The IoT makes use of cloud computing for processing and storing huge amounts of data. In some way, the concept of fog computing has emerged between cloud and IoT devices to address the issue of latency. When a fog node exchanges data for completing a particular task, there are many security and privacy risks. For example, offloading data to a rogue fog node might result in an illegal gathering or modification of users' private data. In this paper, we rely on trust to detect and detach bad fog nodes. We use a Mamdani fuzzy method and we consider a hospital scenario with many fog servers. The aim is to identify the malicious fog node. Metrics such as latency and distance are used in evaluating the trustworthiness of each fog server. The main contribution of this study is identifying how fuzzy logic configuration could alter the trust value of fog nodes. The experimental results show that our method detects the bad fog device and establishes its trustworthiness in the given scenario.