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Detecting and preventing selfish behaviour in mobile ad hoc network

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In mobile ad hoc networks for big data transmission, nodes communicate with each other via intermediate nodes. However, some intermediate nodes may behave selfishly, resulting in reduced throughput and increased delay in the network. Thus, the existence of selfish behaviour in a mobile ad hoc network degrades the performance of the network. In this paper, we propose a scheme that detects selfish behaviour and prevents its occurrence in mobile ad hoc network. The proposed scheme uses an adaptive threshold algorithm to detect selfish behaviour, and prevents it based on a repeated games scheme. Extensive simulations using NS-2 showed that our scheme can effectively detect and prevent selfish behaviour.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61202435 and 61272521 and the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing under Grant No. 4132048.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Tao Lei, Shangguang Wang, Jinlin Li & Fangchun Yang

  2. Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan-si, Republic of Korea

    Ilsun You

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Lei, T., Wang, S., Li, J. et al. Detecting and preventing selfish behaviour in mobile ad hoc network. J Supercomput 72, 3156–3168 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-015-1561-2

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