Stochastic Model for Stability in MANETs with Node Selfishness Resistance by Optimizing Queue Balks
Abstract
A Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) is a self-governing collection of mobile users that operates over bandwidth constrained wireless links. Congestion is one of the major causes of packet delay or loss in MANETs. Mobile Ad-hoc networks are also characterized by a high transmission error probability, which is caused by mobility, the use of wireless links and the limited resources available to nodes. There is every reason to believe that there exists a fair degree of synchronous state between traditional queues and that formed by nodes in a MANET. In this paper an attempt has been made to save an Ad-hoc network from such nodes which act as balkers in the network. The Selfish And Dis-inclined (SAD) nodes would play as balkers in the ensuing model in the sense that they exhibit a natural abhorrence to join the co-operative recovery course of the Save Our Souls (SOS) MANETs which becomes underway after the detection of an attack and as soon as the subsequent mitigation process is initiated.