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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

E-PTES-S: Enhanced Trust Evaluation via Multidimensional Spatiotemporal Fusion and Variance-Based Stability Sequence Extraction in IoT Sensing Networks.

Jinze Liu, Yongtao Yao, Xiao Liu, Jining Chen, Shaoxuan Li, Jiayi Lin

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Jinze LiuSchool of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.ORCID 0009-0004-1906-1038
Yongtao YaoSchool of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.ORCID 0009-0005-6542-9531
Xiao LiuSchool of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.
Jining ChenGuangxi Key Laboratory of Digital Infrastructure, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Information Center, Nanning 530201, China.
Shaoxuan LiSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.
Jiayi LinSchool of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.

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Guangxi Natural Science Foundation 2025GXNSFBA069283Guangxi Science and Technology Base and Talent Project GuikeAD23026160National Natural Science Foundation of China 62402124Open Project Program of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Digital Infrastructure GXDINBC202402, GXDINBC202407
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Abstract

Mobile data collectors (MDCs) play a very important role in Internet of Things (IoT) sensing networks. However, ensuring their trustworthiness against insider threats, such as on-off attacks and spatiotemporal fabrication, remains a critical challenge. Existing trust evaluation methods frequently struggle with these threats due to insufficient evidence dimensions and the inability to quantify behavioral stability. To address these limitations, this paper proposes an enhanced proactive trust evaluation system based on stability sequence extraction (E-PTES-S). E-PTES-S improves the evaluation accuracy by integrating five factors of evidence, stability-computation mechanisms, and an adaptive weight allocation scheme to maintain robustness even when proactive verification data is scarce. In addition to the usual interaction and proactive verification indicators, regional consistency (TRC) and task timeliness (TTT) are introduced to mitigate location falsification and transmit-time deviations more rigorously. Then, a sliding window technique is used to obtain an integrated evidence sequence, which includes a new continuous stability sequence (FCSS) and traditional credible, untrustworthy, and uncertain sequences. This continuous stability sequence adds a variance-based incentive scheme to measure behavioral stability. Finally, the normalized trust value is derived from multiple indicators including multidimensional spatiotemporal evidence and stability metrics. Experimental results show that the proposed E-PTES-S achieves a normal node detection rate of 98.7% under complex dynamic conditions, outperforming the baseline PTES and Trust-SIoT algorithms by approximately 9% and 1%, respectively, while also improving the cumulative data collection profit by 4.8%. Furthermore, robustness analysis demonstrates that E-PTES-S exhibits excellent robustness against physical-layer uncertainties, successfully sustaining an 84.4% detection rate even under severe environmental shadowing.

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behavioral stabilityevidence sequence extractionInternet of Thingsspatiotemporal evidence fusiontrust evaluation

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