Towards an incentive‐compatible, reputation‐based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks: a survey
In opportunistic networks (OppNets), routing and data forwarding among mobile devices are facilitated by relays or next‐hop forwarders. To guarantee end‐to‐end data delivery it is important to provide participation. However, in sparsely connected OppNets, it is extremely challenging to monitor the b...
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| author | Nikolaos Mantas Malamati Louta Eirini Karapistoli George T. Karetsos Stylianos Kraounakis Mohammad S. Obaidat |
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| description | In opportunistic networks (OppNets), routing and data forwarding among mobile devices are facilitated by relays or next‐hop forwarders. To guarantee end‐to‐end data delivery it is important to provide participation. However, in sparsely connected OppNets, it is extremely challenging to monitor the behaviour of the relays and identify selfish/malicious relays cooperating with each other in order to forge routing information or drop useful data. Cooperation enforcement schemes are seen as a lightweight alternative to conventional secure forwarding techniques that involve cryptographically signed certificate exchanges, providing a ‘softer’ security layer to protect basic networking operations. In general, cooperation enforcement schemes fall into two broad categories: trust establishment via a reputation system and pricing or credit‐based schemes. This study offers a comprehensive survey of representative cooperation enforcement schemes that exploit a reputation system. The authors analyse their distinct features, identify and discuss critical challenges that should be efficiently addressed when designing such mechanisms, indicating at the same time potential solutions and provide an informative table to display the authors’ findings. From this analysis, they examine issues and concerns surrounding the field of cooperation enforcement in OppNets, and provide guidelines and directions for future researchers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-592e030755564d2eb41ee2045ee6f0282022-12-21T18:38:39ZengWileyIET Networks2047-49542047-49622017-11-016616917810.1049/iet-net.2017.0079Towards an incentive‐compatible, reputation‐based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks: a surveyNikolaos Mantas0Malamati Louta1Eirini Karapistoli2George T. Karetsos3Stylianos Kraounakis4Mohammad S. Obaidat5Department of Informatics and Telecommunications EngineeringUniversity of Western MacedoniaKozani50132GreeceDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications EngineeringUniversity of Western MacedoniaKozani50132GreeceDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications EngineeringUniversity of Western MacedoniaKozani50132GreeceDepartment of Computer EngineeringTechnology Education Institute of ThessalyLarissa41110GreeceDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications EngineeringUniversity of Western MacedoniaKozani50132GreeceComputer and Information ScienceFordham UniversityBronxNY10458USAIn opportunistic networks (OppNets), routing and data forwarding among mobile devices are facilitated by relays or next‐hop forwarders. To guarantee end‐to‐end data delivery it is important to provide participation. However, in sparsely connected OppNets, it is extremely challenging to monitor the behaviour of the relays and identify selfish/malicious relays cooperating with each other in order to forge routing information or drop useful data. Cooperation enforcement schemes are seen as a lightweight alternative to conventional secure forwarding techniques that involve cryptographically signed certificate exchanges, providing a ‘softer’ security layer to protect basic networking operations. In general, cooperation enforcement schemes fall into two broad categories: trust establishment via a reputation system and pricing or credit‐based schemes. This study offers a comprehensive survey of representative cooperation enforcement schemes that exploit a reputation system. The authors analyse their distinct features, identify and discuss critical challenges that should be efficiently addressed when designing such mechanisms, indicating at the same time potential solutions and provide an informative table to display the authors’ findings. From this analysis, they examine issues and concerns surrounding the field of cooperation enforcement in OppNets, and provide guidelines and directions for future researchers.https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-net.2017.0079incentive‐compatible reputation‐based frameworkopportunistic networksOppNetsdata forwardingmobile devicesselfish relays |
| spellingShingle | Nikolaos Mantas Malamati Louta Eirini Karapistoli George T. Karetsos Stylianos Kraounakis Mohammad S. Obaidat Towards an incentive‐compatible, reputation‐based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks: a survey IET Networks incentive‐compatible reputation‐based framework opportunistic networks OppNets data forwarding mobile devices selfish relays |
| title | Towards an incentive‐compatible, reputation‐based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks: a survey |
| title_full | Towards an incentive‐compatible, reputation‐based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks: a survey |
| title_fullStr | Towards an incentive‐compatible, reputation‐based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks: a survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards an incentive‐compatible, reputation‐based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks: a survey |
| title_short | Towards an incentive‐compatible, reputation‐based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks: a survey |
| title_sort | towards an incentive compatible reputation based framework for stimulating cooperation in opportunistic networks a survey |
| topic | incentive‐compatible reputation‐based framework opportunistic networks OppNets data forwarding mobile devices selfish relays |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-net.2017.0079 |
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