The advance in wireless technologies makes now viable to start to develop ad hoc networks.
However, without a mechanism that prevents misbehaviors, these networks could result …

In self-organizing ad hoc networks, all the networking functions rely on the contribution of the
participants. As a basic example, nodes have to forward packets for each other in order to …

In multi-hop wireless networks, every node is expected to forward packets for the benefit of
other nodes. Yet, if each node is its own authority, then it may selfishly deny packet …

In this paper we propose two methods to evaluate the effectiveness of the CORE mechanism
based on a cooperative game approach and a non-cooperative game approach: the results …

A hybrid ad hoc network is a structure-based network that is extended using multihop
communications. Indeed, in this kind of network, the existence of a communication link …

Mobile ad hoc networks are a new and challenging topic on mobile computing. A particular
characteristic of ad hoc networks is their self-organization, what makes them highly …

This paper focuses on the formal assessment of the properties of cooperation enforcement
mechanisms used to detect and prevent selfish behavior of nodes forming a mobile ad hoc …

The application of mathematical analysis to the study of wireless ad hoc networks has met
with limited success due to the complexity of mobility and traffic models, the dynamic …

A wireless Ad-hoc network is expected to be made up of energy aware entities (nodes)
interested in their own perceived performance. An important problem in such a scenario is to …

In wireless ad hoc networks one way to incentivize nodes to forward other nodes' packets is
through the use of reputation mechanisms, where cooperation is induced by the threat of …