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Abstract

Decentralised environments with a high number of end-users and M2M devices used in several M2M services increasethe importance of a secure trust management and comprehensive trust evaluation system to avoid frauds from maliciousnodes. Blockchain, as part of the distributed ledger technology (DLT), helps to improve the overall security in a decentralised M2M community in various aspects. This research publication summarises several existing trust managementand evaluation approaches, concluding with their benefits and limitations. Besides these, it highlights the advantages ofthe distributed ledger technology with the focus on blockchain and consensus mechanisms. In this context, most relevantconsensus mechanisms are reviewed and an optimisation concept is proposed. Finally, a blockchain-based trust evaluationsystem is presented which can be used for trust evaluation and computation of decentralised M2M services part of anM2M community.

Publication Date

2020-01-01

Publication Title

Host publication not specified in Elements

ISBN

9783800749614

Deposit Date

2024-06-12

First Page

93

Last Page

98

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