Evolutionary reputation model for node selfishness resistance in opportunistic networks

  • Authors:

  • Sihai Zhang;Hongyang Qiu;Yuan Liu;Wuyang Zhou

  • Affiliations:

  • Wireless Information Network Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026China ...;Wireless Information Network Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 Chin ...;Wireless Information Network Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 Chin ...;Wireless Information Network Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 Chin ...

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Selfish behavior of nodes in opportunistic networks impact greatly on the network performance. Therefore, an effective mechanism should be proposed to resist such misbehavior and to stimulate the nodes willing to relay packets for other nodes toward their destinations. On the basis of the evolutionary reputation model proposed, this paper investigates the network performance, including message delivery ratio, average delivery delay, and average intermittent hops, under the influence of reputation degree and selfish degree. In addition, the reputation evolution process is described, which helps to understand the interaction among network nodes. Simulation results show that the opportunistic network adopting the model proposed can resist partially the node selfishness and maintain acceptable network performance. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.