A correlative study of cooperation enforcement mechanisms

The exertion of adequate cooperation enforcement methods has been receiving booming attention during the last few years. With the emerging applications such as the P2P overlay network for file sharing, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) requiring nodes to forward packets on behalf of others, the emanating opportunistic networks and with the sprouting popularity of Mobile Social Networks, it is becoming important to maintain a well balanced cooperation among the users of the network. This paper contemplates some of the cooperation enforcement methods, providing a comprehensive comparison between the proposed schemes. The work also contributes towards the investigation of different models of cooperation enforcement systems and analyze why these systems cannot work from human perspective. The paper also discharges a beam to show how insights from economics, social science and game theory has been integrated to frame a cooperation enforcement model.