Performance analysis of the CONFIDANT protocol
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Enforcing service availability in mobile ad-hoc WANs
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java
Adaptive Management of an Active Service Network
BT Technology Journal
Core: a collaborative reputation mechanism to enforce node cooperation in mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/TC11 Sixth Joint Working Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security: Advanced Communications and Multimedia Security
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Nash Equilibria of Packet Forwarding Strategies in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Cooperation enforcement schemes for MANETs: a survey: Research Articles
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing - Wireless Network Security
Achieving cooperation in multihop wireless networks of selfish nodes
GameNets '06 Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on Game theory for communications and networks
Best neighbor strategy to enforce cooperation among selfish nodes in wireless ad hoc network
Computer Communications
Trust-based evolutionary game model assisting AODV routing against selfishness
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A secure credit-based cooperation stimulating mechanism for MANETs using hash chains
Future Generation Computer Systems
A trust model based on fuzzy recommendation for mobile ad-hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
Taxonomy of trust: Categorizing P2P reputation systems
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Management in peer-to-peer systems
Cooperative peer groups in NICE
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Management in peer-to-peer systems
RDSR-V. Reliable Dynamic Source Routing for video-streaming over mobile ad hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A distributed coalition formation framework for fair user cooperation in wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
A cluster-based trust-aware routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks
Wireless Networks
Uncertainty Modeling and Reduction in MANETs
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Information theoretic framework of trust modeling and evaluation for ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Cooperation among nodes is fundamental for the operation of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). In such networks, there could be selfish nodes that use resources from other nodes to send their packets but that do not offer their resources to forward packets for other nodes. Thus, a cooperation enforcement mechanism is necessary. Trust models have been proposed as mechanisms to incentive cooperation in MANETs and some of them are based on game theory concepts. Among game theoretic trust models, those that make nodes' strategies evolve genetically have shown promising results for cooperation improvement. However, current approaches propose a highly centralized genetic evolution which render them unfeasible for practical purposes in MANETs. In this article, we propose a trust model based on a non-cooperative game that uses a bacterial-like algorithm to let the nodes quickly learn the appropriate cooperation behavior. Our model is completely distributed, achieves optimal cooperation values in a small fraction of time compared with centralized algorithms, and adapts effectively to environmental changes.