Multicast operation of the ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Mitigating routing misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network
Wireless Networks - Selected Papers from Mobicom'99
Enforcing service availability in mobile ad-hoc WANs
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Stimulating cooperation in self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
A secure credit-based cooperation stimulating mechanism for MANETs using hash chains
Future Generation Computer Systems
A spontaneous ad hoc network to share WWW access
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
UIC'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
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Cooperation of nodes is a main issue of civilian applications of mobile ad hoc networks. More precisely, mobile nodes with few resources may try to maximize the benefits they get from the network without participating to its services (e.g. without forwarding packets of other nodes). A solution to this problem is to use virtual currency mechanisms: nodes have to pay to send packets and they are rewarded when they forward packets of other nodes. Several papers of the literature have shown that such models enforce individual node cooperation. We address in this paper two main issues of these models that have been left out: the computation by the sender of the price it will be charged and the possibility to reward nodes depending on their charge or resources. We show that it leads to a better load balancing of the network.