Selfish behavior on packet forwarding: An emergent security problem in MANET

Djenouri, Djamel; Badache, Nadjib

Abstract

The limitation in energy resources along with the multi-hop nature of mobile ad hoc networks cause a new vulnerability, that does not exist in traditional networks. To preserve its own battery, anode may behave selfishly and would not forward packets originated from other nodes, while using their services and consuming their resources. This deviation from the correct behavior represents a potential threat against the quality and the availability of the forwarding service. Recently, this challenging problem receives more and more attention among researchers, and some solutions have been proposed. Still, to the best of our knowledge, no paper surveying these solutions has been published yet. In this paper we deal with the emergent problem of node selfishness in mobile ad hoc networks, and we provide a state-of-the-art on the current proposed solutions.1

• Publication Date: Apr 15, 2008
• Deposit Date: Mar 11, 2022
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Book Title: Encyclopedia of Wireless and Mobile Communications
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9199632