A scheme of access service recommendation for the Social Internet of Things

The rapid increase in the complexity and the extent of personalization of services in the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to a greater demand for frequent collaboration among heterogeneous devices. Moreover, with the inseparable relations between human and devices, the paradigm of Social IoT (SIoT) is gaining popularity in recent years. How to effectively facilitate the access to quality services and credible devices in large‐scale networks via defining, establishing, and managing social architectures among things has become a critical issue. In this paper, a scheme of access service recommendation for the SIoT is presented with the understanding of inherent constraints and factors that influence the security and stability of IoT networks. In which, timeliness properties are considered in each transaction for dynamic performance enhancements. With the benefits of promoting service discovery and composition, social relationships among things are introduced in the proposed scheme. An energy‐aware mechanism is also utilized as a restrictive factor in trustworthiness evaluation. Finally, the recommendation is based not only on the past performance but also on the social relationship and the energy status of nodes. Simulation experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits of our scheme from three aspects including rating accuracy, dynamic behavior, and network stability. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.