2014/05/14 by Andrej Gajduk, Zoran Utkovski, Gajduk, Andrej +5
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1405.3491
openalex publication_date 2014/05/14 · openalex created_date 2025/11/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Energy efficiency is gaining importance in wireless communication networks\nwhich have nodes with limited energy supply and signal processing capabilities.\nWe present a numerical study of cooperative communication scenarios based on\nsimple local rules. This is in contrast to most of the approaches in the\nliterature which enforce cooperation by using complex algorithms and require\nstrategic complexity of the network nodes. The approach is motivated by recent\nresults in evolutionary biology which suggest that, if certain mechanism is at\nwork, cooperation can be favoured by natural selection, i. e. even selfish\nactions of the individual nodes can lead to emergence of cooperative behaviour\nin the network. The results of the simulations in the context of wireless\ncommunication networks verify these observations and indicate that\nuncomplicated local rules, followed by simple fitness evaluation, can generate\nnetwork behaviour which yields global energy efficiency.\n