Vertical Integration of Incentives for Cooperation – Inter-layer Collaboration as a Prerequisite for Effectively Stimulating Cooperation in Ad Hoc Networks.

@INPROCEEDINGS{OK03,
  author = {Philipp Obreiter and Michael Klein},
  year = 2003,
  title = {Vertical Integration of Incentives for Cooperation - Inter-Layer
          Collaboration as a Prerequisite for Effectively Stimulating
          Cooperation in Ad Hoc Networks},
  booktitle = {Second Mediterranean Workshop on Ad-Hoc Networks {(MED}-{HOC}
              {NET} 2003)},
  address = {Mahdia, Tunisia},
  abstract = {In ad hoc networks, devices must cooperate in order to
             compensate for the absence of infrastructure. Yet, autonomous
             devices are free to decide whether to cooperate or not. Hence,
             incentives are indispensable to induce cooperation between
             autonomous devices. Recently, several incentive schemes have been
             proposed. Each of them is focussed on incentives for cooperation
             on a specific protocol layer. In this paper, we demonstrate the
             ine?ectiveness of such isolated incentive schemes and point out
             the need for vertical integration. Therefore, vertical
             interaction of protocol entities is augmented by exchanging the
             state of di?erent layers¡¯ incentive schemes. This builds the
             foundation of a generic model of stimulated cooperation that
             captures inter-device cooperation and interlayer interaction in
             the presence of incentives for cooperation. The proposed model is
             exemplified and its concept of localizing resource consumption is
             illustrated. We examine the applicability of the model to
             existing protocols and incentive schemes by considering three
             dimensions of heterogeneity and discussing implementation issues.
             Lastly, we sketch an incentive scheme that applies vertical
             integration of incentives for cooperation in our research project
             DIANE.}
}