Connectivity in selfish, cooperative networks

  • Authors:
  • Erwu Liu;Qinqing Zhang;Kin K. Leung

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK;Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper studies the connectivity of large cooperative ad hoc networks. Unlike existing work where all nodes are assumed to transmit cooperatively, the cooperative network we consider is realistic as we assume that not all nodes are willing to collaborate when relaying other nodes' traffic. For such selfish, cooperative network, we use stochastic geometry and percolation theory to analyze the connectivity and provide an upper bound of critical node density when the network percolates.