ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes trust as a basis for assuring security and privacy in oppnets. It provides background information on oppnets, including a discussion of the security and privacy challenges in oppnets. Pervasive trust foundation (PTF) provides to oppnet all security and privacy services during the entire oppnet lifetime. Oppnets can be viewed as middleware for generalization of ad hoc networks or systems and they inherit all security and privacy challenges of ad hoc networks. Opportunistic resource utilization networks are a generalization of ad hoc networks, and grow by discovering and integrating as their helpers foreign devices or systems that possess desired resources. The chapter discusses related work, including solutions related to oppnets and using trust as a security and privacy foundation. It describes the structure and operations of PTF-based Oppnet Architecture (POA). POA integrates PTF into the oppnet structure and operations, so PTF can serve oppnet for all security and privacy services performed during the entire oppnet lifetime.
