Cooperative packet relaying model for wireless ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Lu Yan;Stephen Hailes

  • Affiliations:
  • University College London, London, United Kingdom;University College London, London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Foundations of wireless ad hoc and sensor networking and computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In wireless ad hoc networks such as mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks, most of the functions (routing, mobility management, and security) must rely on cooperation between nodes. Every node in these networks is both end host (it generates its own data and routing traffic) and infrastructure (it forwards traffic for others), but rational nodes have no incentive to cooperatively forward traffic for others, since this kind of forwarding is not costless. Thus, we are motivated to use game theory to analyze cooperative mechanisms, and derive incentive strategies enforcing cooperation in forwarding. Unlike traditional approaches, in this paper, we introduce a novel and interdisciplinary simulation-based analysis scheme to the networking community in game-theoretic settings. Moreover, we investigate noise models and show some counterintuitive simulation results in presence of noise.