Trust management is essential for secure node collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments for mission critical applications
in military, crisis management, telemedicine and others. In this paper, we design and develop a novel hierarchical architecture
called NeVo (Network of Volunteers) to facilitate trust management. The architecture uses a small subset of the nodes called
volunteers to perform basic services such as resource provisioning, service discovery and mobility management in the network.
The proposed mechanism operates autonomously through nodes’ cooperation. We choose service discovery to illustrate how the
proposed trust management mechanism are accomplished through interactions among nodes. Simulation studies demonstrate that
NeVo exhibits high efficiency and performance compared to existing distributed approaches in open pervasive environments.
Keywords Trust management - Ubiquitous computing - Service discovery