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 will defer 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.
Citation:
Peter Marbach, Ran Pang, "Transmission Costs, Selfish Nodes, and Protocol Design," wiopt, pp.31-40, Third International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'05), 2005