Title: An incentive scheme in wireless access networks through a game based on trust prediction

Authors: Jinsong Gui; Zhigang Chen; Xiaoheng Deng

Addresses: School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China ' School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China ' School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

Abstract: We propose a game scheme to stimulate cooperation in wireless access networks. Through game analysis, we get an acceptance probability and access control condition. Upon receiving a request from a mobile node, if an access point decides to deal with it based on the acceptance probability, its future trust is predicted. By using the predicted value, access control condition, and mobile node's cheat probability, the access point gets a decision-making result, which decides whether to respond the mobile node's request. We show that our scheme has more favourable incentive effect and less game cost than those of the existing works.

Keywords: wireless access networks; incentive schemes; trust prediction; game analysis; cooperation; acceptance probability; access control conditions; wireless networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.049281

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 Vol.11 No.1, pp.11 - 24

Received: 14 Oct 2010
Accepted: 08 Apr 2011
Published online: 29 Sep 2012 *

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