Transmission costs, selfish nodes, and protocol design

We study how selfish nodes react to transmission costs in wireless networks. Intuitively, it seems that transmission costs should have a stabilizing effect as (rational) nodes will defer packet transmissions when congestion develops and the cost for (successfully) transmitting a packet becomes high. In this paper we investigate whether this intuition is true. We use slotted Aloha to model the communication channel.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: WINET
• Authors: Peter Marbach
• Keywords: Selfish Nodes, Transmission Costs, WINET 2008, Wireless Networks