In ATSR, we opted for requesting reputation information from a limited number (four) of neighbors, as a first action towards limiting the introduced overhead.
To trigger the indirect trust exchange process, each node periodically issues a reputation request message.
Once node i that transmitted the reputation request message receives the reputation responses, node i calculates the Indirect Trust value for node j,, by summing up the received values adopting the relevant direct trust as weight factors, so that a reputation provided by a highly trusted node counts more.
If the judge doesn't approve Apple's request, Apple's reputation for over-asserting intellectual property rights may get even worse.
Due to the random nature of neighbour selection for asking for reputation information ("round-robin" manner), the time required for the detection of the malicious node depends on the frequency of reputation request message generation.
As a result, when a mobile node approaches a potential target network, instead of requesting the current aggregated reputation score, we propose that the mobile node requests the predicted future aggregate score.
Although the fines and administrative sanctions in privacy cases tend to be limited, one privacy expert said Google's lack of compliance with regulators' requests could damage its reputation.
Both firms made clear in their suits that their inability to respond to misleading surveillance-related stories with specific data about such requests had harmed their reputation and their business, though they did not put a figure on the damage done.Now America's tech giants stand accused not just of mishandling their customers' data, but, in effect, of knowingly selling them flawed software.
Re "Waiting Out the Rush on Holiday Returns" (Online Shopper, Dec. 26), in which the writer relates plans to return a Lands' End sweater that has been worn: Surely you realize that Lands' End's policy is to give in to unreasonable requests to maintain a reputation for service.
There is reason to be optimistic that allowing Google to detail the FISA requests would help repair its reputation.
