An incentive mechanism for charging scheme in heterogeneous collaborative networks

Heterogeneous collaborative networks have been ever-increasingly concerned due to the constant development of wireless networks . However, before employed in commercial applications, the secure charging should be solved; say, the charging systems with the guarantee of security are vital to support this architecture. Meanwhile, nodes´ non-cooperation behavior should be under control as well. Hence, a secure incentive-based charging solution for heterogeneous collaborative networks integrating cellular and MANET (Ad Hoc) is proposed, utilizing charging receipt to thwart non-reputation attacks. Theoretical verification shows that proposed scheme not only grants the existence of selfish nodes to meet their rational demand, but is robust enough to circumvent various active attacks. Finally, simulation analysis reveals the influence of the parameters in proposed scheme on routing stability and node cooperation in low overhead.