TY - JFULL AU - V. Uma Rani and K. Soma Sundaram PY - 2014/3/ TI - Review of Trust Models in Wireless Sensor Networks T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 370 EP - 377 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9998073 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 86, 2014 N2 - The major challenge faced by wireless sensor networks is security. Because of dynamic and collaborative nature of sensor networks the connected sensor devices makes the network unusable. To solve this issue, a trust model is required to find malicious, selfish and compromised insiders by evaluating trust worthiness sensors from the network. It supports the decision making processes in wireless sensor networks such as pre key-distribution, cluster head selection, data aggregation, routing and self reconfiguration of sensor nodes. This paper discussed the kinds of trust model, trust metrics used to address attacks by monitoring certain behavior of network. It describes the major design issues and their countermeasures of building trust model. It also discusses existing trust models used in various decision making process of wireless sensor networks. ER -