Reputation-Based Service Management and Reward Mechanisms in Fednets to Improve the Quality of Cooperation between Personal Networks

Personal Network (PN) is a person-centric network, which creates a distributed environment of a person and provides access to personal resources and services regardless the location of the person. A Federation of Personal Networks (Fednet) is a group-oriented network of PNs. Since behind each PN there is a person, i.e., the PN owner, the cooperation of the PNs reflects the social behavior of the PN owners and therefore a Fednet can be seen as a social network of PNs. In this paper, we look at the Fednets from the `social' angle and discuss how the Fednets can benefit from using reputation. We propose a reputation-based framework for Fednets and present ideas on applying reputation information for service management and reward mechanisms in Fednets to improve the quality of cooperation between the PNs.