Title: Game theory-based analysis of inter-cluster communication in a DRHT network

Authors: El Arbi Abdellaoui Alaoui; Mustapha El Moudden; Khalid Nassiri; Said Agoujil

Addresses: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, EIGSI-Casablanca, 282 Route of the Oasis, Maarif, Casablanca, Morocco; Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Moulay Ismail University, BP 509, Boutalamine – 52 000, Errachidia, Morocco ' Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco ' Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Moulay Ismail University, BP 509, Boutalamine – 52 000, Errachidia, Morocco ' Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Moulay Ismail University, BP 509, Boutalamine – 52 000, Errachidia, Morocco

Abstract: The system performance of the delay tolerant networks (DTN) can be significantly improved by using the DTN routing hierarchical topology (DRHT) which incorporates three fundamental concepts: ferries messages, ferries routes and clusters. The intra-cluster routing is managed by the cluster head, while the inter-cluster routing is managed by the ferries messages. In this paper, we analyse the behaviour of data dissemination problem of ferries in the DRHT. More specifically, in order to analyse the inter-cluster communication in the DRHT, we formulate non-cooperative game and game stochastic which model the behaviour of the ferries.

Keywords: delay tolerant networks; DTN; DTN routing hierarchical topology; DRHT; game theory; Nash equilibrium; game stochastic.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIE.2019.101131

International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, 2019 Vol.6 No.2/3/4, pp.262 - 292

Received: 24 Jan 2018
Accepted: 14 Jan 2019
Published online: 24 Jul 2019 *

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