Inna
Kofman1 and Nurul Huda2
1University
of Duesseldorf, Department of Computer Science,
Duesseldorf,
Germany
2Ted
Rogers School of Information Technology Management,
Ryerson
University, Toronto
ABSTRACT
Because
of the lack of infrastructure in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), their proper
functioning must rely
on co-operations among mobile nodes. However, mobile nodes tend to save their
own resources and may
be reluctant to forward packets for other nodes. One approach to encourage
co-operations among nodes
is to reward nodes that forward data for others. Such an incentive-based scheme
requires a charging and
accounting framework to control and manage rewards and fines (collected from
users committing infractions).
In this paper, we propose a novel charging and accounting scheme for MANETs. We
present a detailed description of the proposed scheme and demonstrate its
effectiveness via formal proofs and simulation
results [15]. We develop a theoretical game model that offers advice to network
administrators about
the allocation of resources for monitoring mobile nodes. The solution provides
the optimal monitoring probability, which discourages nodes from cheating
because the gain would be compensated by the penalty.
KEYWORDS
Mobile Ad-hoc
Networks, Cooperation, Security, Game Theory, Inspection Game.MORE.......