QUEUEING THEORY BASED TRAFFIC ANALYSIS OF A SOCIAL INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEM

In a SIoT system, IoT objects acquire social attributes and establish relationships only with trustworthy and suitable IoT objects. Trust Management Systems is the entity that evaluates the trustworthiness of an IoT object. In an environment where IoT objects require and offer services, the Trust Management System keeps SIoT objects resilient to malicious IoT objects' behaviors and attacks, fostering trustworthy cooperation. However, in the works reported in the literature, the selection of the most suitable service provider is based only on trustworthiness without considering resource availability.