Dynamic Trust Enforcing Pricing Scheme for Sensors-as-a-Service in Sensor-Cloud Infrastructure

Abstract

Sensor-cloud architecture is a wireless sensor network (WSN)-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), in which a Sensor-Cloud Service Provider (SCSP) obtains WSNs on rental basis from multiple sensor-owners and provides these resources to the users in the form of chargeable units of services, termed as Sensors-as-a-Service (Se-aaS). A fraction of the revenue earned by the SCSP from the users is distributed among the oligopolistic sensor-owners for the usage of their nodes. Due to the inter-dependency among the sensor-owners for Se-aaS provisioning, selfish sensor-owners behave dishonestly to gain higher profits, thereby degrading the overall QoS. Existing works on sensor-cloud fail to address this issue. Hence, in this work, we propose DETER, a dynamic trust enforcing pricing scheme, which enforces trust among the selfish sensor-owners while ensuring profits for the SCSP.