• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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PRI: A Practical Reputation-based Incentive Scheme for Delay Tolerant Networks

Vol. 6, No. 4, April 24, 2012
10.3837/tiis.2012.04.001, Download Paper (Free):

Abstract

Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) characterized by the lack of guaranteed end-to-end paths exploit opportunistic data forwarding mechanism, which depends on the hypothesis that nodes are willing to store, carry, and forward the in-transit messages in an opportunistic way. However, this hypothesis might easily be violated by the presence of selfish nodes constrained with energy, bandwidth, and processing power. To address this problem, we propose a practical reputation-based incentive scheme, named PRI, to stimulate honest forwarding and discipline selfish behavior. A novel concept of successful forwarding credential and an observation protocol are presented to cope with the detection of nodes’ behavior, and a reputation model is proposed to determine egoistic individuals. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of our proposal


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[IEEE Style]
X. Zhang, X. Wang, A. Liu, Q. Zhang, C. Tang, "PRI: A Practical Reputation-based Incentive Scheme for Delay Tolerant Networks," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 973-988, 2012. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2012.04.001.

[ACM Style]
Xi Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Anna Liu, Quan Zhang, and Chaojing Tang. 2012. PRI: A Practical Reputation-based Incentive Scheme for Delay Tolerant Networks. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 6, 4, (2012), 973-988. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2012.04.001.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:20104, title="PRI: A Practical Reputation-based Incentive Scheme for Delay Tolerant Networks", author="Xi Zhang and Xiaofei Wang and Anna Liu and Quan Zhang and Chaojing Tang and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2012.04.001}, volume={6}, number={4}, year="2012", month={April}, pages={973-988}}