Title :
Transmission costs, selfish nodes, and protocol design
Author :
Marbach, Peter ; Pang, Ran
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
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 defer the 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.
Keywords :
protocols; radio networks; telecommunication channels; communication channel; protocol design; selfish node; slotted Aloha; transmission cost; wireless network; Access protocols; Communication channels; Computer science; Costs; Multiaccess communication; Pricing; Radio access networks; Stability; System performance; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, 2005. WIOPT 2005. Third International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2267-X
DOI :
10.1109/WIOPT.2005.53
