Performance Analysis of Contention Window Cheating Misbehaviors in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

TL;DR

This paper reviews contention window misbehavior in MANETs, analyzing its impact on network performance and proposing enhancements to mitigate cheating behaviors for more efficient medium access control.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of contention window cheating and suggests potential improvements to existing mitigation strategies in MANETs.

Findings

Contention window cheating reduces network bandwidth and energy efficiency.

Existing solutions can be combined for more effective mitigation.

The paper offers a framework for future research on cheating prevention.

Abstract

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of nodes that can be rapidly deployed as a multi-hop network without the aid of any centralized administration. Misbehavior is challenged by bandwidth and energy efficient medium access control and fair share of throughput. Node misbehavior plays an important role in MANET. In this survey, few of the contention window misbehavior is reviewed and compared. The contention window cheating either minimizes the active communication of the network or reduces bandwidth utilization of a particular node. The classification presented is in no case unique but summarizes the chief characteristics of many published proposals for contention window cheating. After getting insight into the different contention window misbehavior, few of the enhancements that can be done to improve the existing contention window are suggested. The purpose of this paper is to facilitate the research efforts in combining the existing solutions to offer more efficient methods to reduce contention window cheating mechanisms.