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A Fast Model for Evaluating the Detection of Selfish Nodes Using a Collaborative Approach in MANETs

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Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) rely on network cooperation schemes to work properly. Nevertheless, if nodes have a selfish behaviour and are unwilling to cooperate, the overall network performance could be seriously affected. The use of watchdogs is a well-known mechanism to detect selfish nodes. In this paper we propose a collaborative watchdog approach, which is based on the fast diffusion of selfish nodes awareness. Then, we introduce an analytical model to evaluate the time of detection and the overhead (number of messages) of our collaborative watchdog approach for detecting one selfish node. This model is extended for the case of several selfish nodes, including a mean–max approximation for a feasible computation when the number of selfish nodes is high. The results show that a collaborative watchdog is a very efficient approach since the detection time of selfish nodes is reduced, and the overall overhead is very low.

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  1. Note that each state number \(i\) can mapped as \(i=d(t)\cdot (C+1)+c(t)+1\).

  2. For simplicity, we omit the time in the states (that is \((d,c) = (d(t),c(t))\)).

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This work was partially supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain (Grant TIN2011-27543-C03-01).

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    Enrique Hernández-Orallo, Manuel D. Serrat Olmos, Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos T. Calafate & Pietro Manzoni

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Hernández-Orallo, E., Olmos, M.D.S., Cano, JC. et al. A Fast Model for Evaluating the Detection of Selfish Nodes Using a Collaborative Approach in MANETs. Wireless Pers Commun 74, 1099–1116 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1346-y

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