• DocumentCode
    1489731
  • Title

    Incentivising Fairness and Policing Nodes in WiFi

  • Author

    Dangerfield, Ian ; Malone, David ; Leith, Douglas J.

  • Author_Institution
    Hamilton Inst., NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland
  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    500
  • Lastpage
    502
  • Abstract
    In this paper we propose a feedback-based scheme to penalise misbehaving nodes in an 802.11 network based on gains achieved due to their (mis)configuration. Only the access point (AP) is modified and the scheme requires no additional communication or cooperation from other nodes. We achieve this by failing to send MAC-level ACKs with a probability determined by the online feedback scheme. The scheme is designed so that it can incentivise nodes to configure themselves correctly and avoids the need to explicitly detect misbehaving nodes.
  • Keywords
    access protocols; feedback; wireless LAN; 802.11 network; MAC-level ACK; WiFi; access point; feedback-based scheme; incentivise nodes; incentivising fairness; misbehaving nodes; online feedback scheme; policing nodes; Ad hoc networks; Conferences; Convergence; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Predictive models; Throughput; Wireless LAN; 802.11; MAC; fairness; policing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2011.040111.102111
  • Filename
    5743051