“…For example, regarding the reputation fusion, some literatures such as [21,24,26,29,35,36] use both direct reputation and indirect reputation, while others like [30,31,33,41,42,43] only apply direct reputation. For another example, as is shown in Table 1, on the reputation aging, among the literatures that apply direct reputation and/or indirect reputation, only a few of them such as [21,24,25,33] use the reputation aging, while other literatures ignore it for no reason. Besides, by using the concept of binomial reputation, energy reputation [36,37], communication reputation [25,34,35,36,37], and data reputation like [30,34,41,42,59] and so on are introduced so as to save individual node energy and ensure the reliable communication and data transmission.…”