Thwarting the probabilistic selfish behaviours in packet forwarding of multihop ad hoc networks

Abstract

Upcoming Wireless networks have been emerging in the real world applications as well as in researching. Multihop characteristics of ad hoc networks may lead to most of their challenges. Selfishness is an inevitable behavior in these networks and many researches have been performing to thwart it. In this paper we investigate some game theory selfish model and incentive VCG payments to motivate relay ad hoc nodes for cooperation in forwarding packets in some probabilistic ad hoc scenarios. The throughput of each scenario in simulation is shown as well as the cases where such payments are not efficient. Our proposed method for improvement payment especially in the challenging single route network scenario is suggested.