Connectivity of cooperative ad hoc networks
- 1 May 2016
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Abstract
The connectivity properties of ad hoc networks have been extensively studied over the past few years, from local observables, to global network properties. In this paper we introduce a novel layer of network dynamics which lives and evolves on top of the ad hoc network. Nodes are assumed selfish and a snow-drift type game is defined dictating the way nodes decide to allocate their cooperative resource efforts towards other nodes in the network. The dynamics are strongly coupled with the physical network causing the cooperation network topology to converge towards a stable equilibrium state, a global maximum of the total pay-off. We study this convergence from a connectivity perspective and analyse the inherent parameter dependence. Moreover, we show that direct reciprocity can be an efficient incentive to promote cooperation within the network and discuss the analogies between our simple yet tractable framework with D2D proximity based services such as LTE-Direct. We argue that cooperative network dynamics have many application in ICT, not just ad hoc networks, and similar models as the one described herein can be devised and studied in their own right.Keywords
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