A hybrid system to stimulate selfish nodes to cooperate in vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks

Joao A.F.F. Dias, Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, Neeraj Kumar, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis

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Abstract

In the last decade vehicular communications have been the focus of research, not only by the related scientific community but also by the automotive industry. Several architectures were proposed in order to overcome some issues found in such networks. Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) try to improve vehicular communications by deploying the Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs) store-carry-and-forward model and assuming the bundle layer placement under the network layer. Although all the improvements already achieved by VDTNs, there are still several challenges that must be overcome. One of these challenges is how to stimulate nodes to cooperate and minimize the impact of misbehavior nodes on the network performance. A node may be unwilling to cooperate due to a selfish behavior or to save its own resources from being compromised. To detect, isolate, and exclude this type of nodes a reputation system with different mechanisms (allowing to punish selfish nodes in different ways) was implemented in VDTNs. This paper adapts the already proposed reputation system to perform together with a hybrid system, which main goal is to incentive selfish nodes to share their resources with others, instead of immediately excluding them from the network. With the proposal of this hybrid system, two incentive mechanisms were also created. Across all the experiments, it was shown that by incentive selfish nodes to cooperate contributes to an increase of the overall network performance, when compared to an approach that excludes them immediately from the network.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5910-5915
Number of pages6
Volume2015-September
ISBN (Electronic)9781467364324
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Sept 2015
EventIEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Jun 201512 Jun 2015

Other

OtherIEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period8/06/1512/06/15

Keywords

  • Cooperation
  • Hybrid Approach
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Reputation Mechanisms
  • Selfish Nodes
  • Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks

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