TITLE:
Self Organizing Communities: Enhancing Cooperation through Competition
AUTHORS:
Aristotelis Glentis, Damianos Kypriadis, Nancy Alonistioti
KEYWORDS:
Mobile Resource Management, Community Building, Node Co-Operation, Game Theory
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.7 No.8,
August
19,
2014
ABSTRACT:
One of the open issues in today’s networking
world is efficient content retrieval, storage, and provision. Numerous studies
have been carried out in order to optimize the distribution and provision of
content to end users. This is emphasized in today’s mobile networks that the
ubiquity of network resources is considered an expected fact. In this paper we
propose an architecture that is based on node co-operation that enhances the
content distribution and retrieval. The architecture consists of the formation
of loosely coupled and autonomous communities among nodes that share common
interests where the already existing content is shared in a “common pool”. The
co-operation is enforced by the acquisition of extra bandwidth that is
distributed to the most helpful members. The autonomic aspect of the
communities is based on the embedded mechanisms for cluster behavior, namely,
voting, where the nodes decide themselves which members should be awarded, and
reporting, where misbehaving nodes are removed from the community. In this
paper the different elements of the architecture will be described, together
with a theoretic study of its viability, and finally a set of simulations that
evaluate its performance.