TANF—Trustworthy Adaptive Neural Framework for Reliable and Scalable 6G Internet of Things

The increasing complexity of 6G-IoT networks presents challenges in ensuring real-time trust assessment, computational efficiency, and security against adversarial threats. Existing frameworks struggle to dynamically adapt to evolving threats and high-volume data streams, leading to compromised decision reliability. This study proposes TANF (Trustworthy Adaptive Neural Framework), an advanced deep learning-driven trust evaluation system incorporating hierarchical processing, multi-domain trust layers, and Holo-Recursive Memory (HRM) for adaptive optimization. TANF prioritizes high-trust data streams using sensory stream balancing, dynamically allocates resources through task-specific synergy layers, and enhances memory recall by integrating past, present, and predictive state representations. The simulation, conducted in Edge-IIoTset, IoT-23 and CICIDS2017, evaluated trust assessment, computational latency, scalability, and adversarial detection. TANF achieves a precision of 92. 8%, a latency reduction of 34. 5% and a adversarial detection rate of 95. 6%, outperforming ERAI, ROBUST-6G, and IMCS.