TY - GEN
T1 - Countering selfish misbehavior in multi-channel MAC protocols
AU - Zhang, Yan
AU - Lazos, Loukas
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We address the problem of MAC-layer misbehavior in distributed multi-channel MAC protocols. We show that selfish users can manipulate the protocol parameters to gain an unfair share of the available bandwidth, while remaining undetected. We identify optimal misbehavior strategies that can lead to the isolation of a subset of frequency bands for exclusive use by the misbehaving nodes and evaluate their impact on performance and fairness. We develop corresponding detection and mitigation strategies that practically eliminate the misbehavior gains. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt in characterizing the impact of misbehavior on multi-channel MAC protocols.
AB - We address the problem of MAC-layer misbehavior in distributed multi-channel MAC protocols. We show that selfish users can manipulate the protocol parameters to gain an unfair share of the available bandwidth, while remaining undetected. We identify optimal misbehavior strategies that can lead to the isolation of a subset of frequency bands for exclusive use by the misbehaving nodes and evaluate their impact on performance and fairness. We develop corresponding detection and mitigation strategies that practically eliminate the misbehavior gains. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt in characterizing the impact of misbehavior on multi-channel MAC protocols.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6567088
DO - 10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6567088
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883085586
SN - 9781467359467
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
SP - 2787
EP - 2795
BT - 2013 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2013
T2 - 32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2013
Y2 - 14 April 2013 through 19 April 2013
ER -