**3.6. Reputation systems-independent scale for trust on routing (RESISTOR)**

Reputation systems are very complicated systems to evaluate or compare. This is because each system has its own components' implementation methods, like monitoring strategy, rating approach and response mechanism. All these components affect the efficiency of the reputation system individually as well as a complete system. Therefore, it is important to come up with a simple mechanism that can evaluate and analyze a reputation system. Such a mechanism must be:

 Independent of the reputation system: This means that the inputs of the formulae or equations used in this mechanism should not use the specific parameters that determine how the individual component of the reputation system is working.

 Representative for the effect of each individual component: This means that the mechanism should provide parameters that reflect the role of individual components in the reputation system.

In this work, we propose a simple but strong, independent and representative scale to evaluate reputation systems called *REputaion Systems-Independent Scale for Trust On Routing*  (RESISTOR)[85].
