Contact: Sonja Buchegger
Site: Immune Networking
Nodes in mobile ad-hoc networks need to cooperate to communicate. Cooperation, however, can be costly in terms of processing and battery power. We are looking at what we call “sleeping nodes”. These nodes only turn on their device when they actually have data to send or expect incoming data, otherwise they are turned off to save energy. This form of selfish node behavior is hard to detect. We are interested in the impact of such behavior on the availability and performance of mobile ad-hoc networks and incentives for potentially needed increased participation.
Benefits: learning about mobile ad-hoc networks and cooperation
Domain: Network performance analysis; Protocol design and implementation; Security
Student info: Sudhanshu Pardasani