A charging and rewarding scheme for packet forwarding in multi-hop cellular networks

By Naouel Ben Salem, Levente Buttyán, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Markus Jakobsson. ACM Interational Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2003

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In multi-hop cellular networks, data packets have to be relayed hop by hop from a given mobile station to a base station and vice-versa. This means that the mobile stations must accept to forward information for the benefit of other stations. In this paper, we propose an incentive mechanism that is based on a charging/rewarding scheme and that makes collaboration rational for selfish nodes. We base our solution on symmetric cryptography to cope with the limited resources of the mobile stations. We provide a set of protocols and study their robustness with respect to various attacks. By leveraging on the relative stability of the routes, our solution leads to a very moderate overhead.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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UCAN: a unified cellular and ad-hoc network architecture (2003, background): “leave the details of the credit accounting [12, 26], and focus on the identification of legitimate intermediate clients along the data relay path.”
SECTOR: secure tracking of node encounters in multi-hop wireless networks (2003, background): “This information can be very useful for the network operator, to observe the node behavior, to prevent and to detect security breaches, or to identify cheating nodes [2, 17].”
Mobility helps security in ad hoc networks (2003, background): “More work in the area of ad hoc network security has been reported in [26, 25, 18, 4, 24, 13, 3, 5]; these papers are loosely related to the security problems observed in this paper.”
Urban sensing systems: opportunistic or participatory? (2008, background): “, [16], [17]), or a trusted third party authority located in the back-end ca n be periodically accessed via WiFi or GPRS.”
Topology control in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks (2005, background): “Examples of routing protocols based on monetary transfer are (Anderegg and Eidenbenz 2003; BenSalem et al. 2003; Buttyan and Hubaux 2001, 2003; Eidenbenz et al. 2005; Zhong et al. 2003).”