With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, many end-users participate in the smart city through their own intelligent mobile devices (such as personal wearable devices, smartphones.) or sensors. The main challenge of the device sensing layer in the edge computing system of the IoT in the smart city is to select the trusted participants. Because not all the intelligent devices of the IoT are trustworthy, some intelligent devices of the IoT may maliciously damage the network or services and affect the service quality of the system. On this basis, an intelligent device selective recommendation mechanism based on the dynamic black-and-white list was proposed to solve the problem of selecting trusted participants to improve the service quality of the edge computing system of the IoT in the smart city. We introduced the evolutionary game theory to theoretically qualitatively study the validity and stability of the trust management mechanism proposed in this paper. The Lyapunov theory was used to prove the validity and stability of the trust management mechanism. The effectiveness of the trust management mechanism was verified by the actual scenario of the personal health monitoring management system and the air-quality monitoring and analysis system in the smart city environment. Experiments showed that the trust management mechanism proposed in this paper has a significant role in promoting the cooperation of multi intelligent devices in the IoT edge computing system. It more reliably resists the malicious attacks to service providers and is suitable for the large-scale IoT edge computing system in the smart city. INDEX TERMS Edge computing, Internet of Things, malicious attack, smart city, trust management mechanism.

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