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Enhanced Mutual Aid Packet Delivery in Wireless Infrastructureless Networks


Prof. S.Krishnamoorthy[1],M.Punithavalli[2]
Page No. 37-45


Abstract

A coalitional game is developed to analyze the behavior of the rational mobile nodes for
cooperative packet delivery. We consider the problem of cooperative packet delivery to mobile
nodes in a hybrid wireless mobile network, where both infrastructure-based and infrastructure-less
communications are used. A group of mobile nodes makes a decision to join or to leave a coalition
based on their individual payoffs . The individual payoff of each mobile node is a function of the
average delivery delay for packets transmitted to the mobile node from a base station and the cost
incurred by this mobile node for relaying packets to other mobile nodes. We propose a solution
based on a coalition formation among mobile nodes to cooperatively deliver packets among these
mobile nodes in the same coalition. To find the payoff of each mobile node, a Markov chain model
is formulated and the expected cost and packet delivery delay are obtained when the mobile node is
in a coalition. Since both the expected cost and packet delivery delay depend on the probability that
each mobile node will help other mobile nodes in the same coalition to forward packets to the
destination mobile node in the same coalition, a bargaining game is used to find the optimal
helping probabilities. After the payoff of each mobile node is obtained, we find the solutions of the
coalitional game which are the stable coalitions. A distributed algorithm is presented to obtain the
stable coalitions and a Markov-chainbased analysis is used to evaluate the stable coalitional
structures obtained from the distributed algorithm. Performance evaluation results show that when
the stable coalitions are formed, the mobile nodes achieve a nonzero payoff . With a coalition
formation, the mobile nodes achieve higher payoff than that when each mobile node acts alone.
Key Words : Hybrid wireless network, social network analysis, cooperative packet delivery,
coalitional game, bargaining game, carry-and-forward based data delivery


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