Enforcing service availability in mobile ad-hoc WANs
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Protocols and Systems
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Protocols and Systems
A charging and rewarding scheme for packet forwarding in multi-hop cellular networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Load-Balancing Clusters in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
ASSET '00 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering Technology (ASSET'00)
Ad hoc QoS on-demand routing (AQOR) in mobile ad hoc networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on Routing in mobile and wireless ad hoc networks
A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Stimulating cooperation in self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Power-Aware On-Demand Routing Protocol for MANET
ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
Hybrid routing: the pursuit of an adaptable and scalable routing framework for ad hoc networks
The handbook of ad hoc wireless networks
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Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), which were targeted initially for military applications, are slowly finding their way into commercial applications. Ad hoc networking is based on the assumption that every node is willing to forward packets and act as a router. In a military environment, the nodes are assumed "co-operative" and willing to forward packets not intended for them. In a commercial network however, a node may not be totally willing to forward a packet originating from another node, since it utilizes its own battery power. Thus, there is an issue of billing for services provided by the nodes in the network.The problem of billing in ad hoc networks has not been researched extensively, but it must be addressed effectively to make MANETs commercially viable. This paper briefly explains the existing approaches targeted at solving billing and charging issues in MANETs. It gives a lead to solve billing issues using efficient routing mechanisms, and provides an insight into suitable routing approaches and frameworks that could possibly be adopted to support billing. It also provides an example Load-based hybrid routing approach, which solves the problem of billing using an inherent property that stimulates cooperation among nodes.