2013/11/20 by Paul Patras, P. Patras, H. Feghhi +9
Computer Science · #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Wireless Networks and Protocols #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1311.5014
14 pages, 18 figures
openalex publication_date 2013/11/20 · arxiv created 2014/10/13 · arxiv updated 2014/10/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
With the increasing availability of flexible wireless 802.11 devices, the potential exists for users to selfishly manipulate their channel access parameters and gain a performance advantage. Such practices can have a severe negative impact on compliant stations. To enable access points to counteract these selfish behaviours and preserve fairness in wireless networks, in this paper we propose a policing mechanism that drives misbehaving users into compliant operation without requiring any cooperation from clients. This approach is demonstrably effective against a broad class of misbehaviours, soundly-based, i.e. provably hard to circumvent and amenable to practical implementation on existing commodity hardware.