Dynamic reputation-based incentive mechanism considering heterogeneous networks

Abstract

Selfish behavior by users significantly affects the overall performance and degrades the overall connectivity in heterogeneous networks such as Personal Networks (PNs). Incentives are considered one of the best solutions for this situation. This paper proposes a dynamic reputation-based incentive mechanism for cooperative relay in PNs. Based on reputation calculations for individual contributions of intermediate relay nodes in a cooperative relay service, the proposed scheme dynamically assigns incentives in terms of additional throughput for those cooperative relay nodes. Experimental results of two simulation scenarios show that dynamic incentives are appropriate and sustainable for motivating user participation in PNs, particularly for applications characterized by wide coverage and high data rates.

Review and analysis of networking challenges in cloud computing

“…An obvious method for efficiently using the available cloud resources is to persuade cloud participants to cooperate among themselves. This cooperation can be enforced in several ways: through a common goal (Huerta-Canepa and Lee 2010), using monetary incentives (Charilas, et al 2011), social incentives (Tanase and Cristea 2011) or reputation incentives (Hwang, Shin and Yoon 2008) (Charilas, et al 2011). The major problem associated with the common goal method (Huerta-Canepa and Lee 2010) is that it does not work in the absence of a common activity among the potential collaborating entities.…”

Game Theory for Collaboration in Future Networks

“…Recent work proposed dynamic reputation-based incentives for cooperative relays present in a network topology formed by heterogeneous networks (Hwang, 2008) (Skraparlis, 2009). The incentive for cooperation among nodes can be given either by additional throughput (Hwang, 2008) or by additional time-slots for transmission (Skraparlis, 2009).…”

Reputation-Based Systems within Computer Networks

“…These systems tackle different problems in different layers, starting from the networking and routing to the services and applications [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. In this Section, we discuss how the reputation information helps in decision making process; how it is used to implement a reward system and how it improves the quality of cooperation in these systems.…”

“…The reward implicitly can be considered as "having better connectivity". The reference [8] proposes a dynamic incentive mechanism to motivate the personal network nodes in participating in cooperative relaying. As a reward for cooperative behavior, the nodes receive additional throughput based on reputation calculations for individual contributions.…”