Evolution of cooperation in device-to-device communication

Colombo, Gualtiero, Whitaker, Roger Marcus ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8473-1913, Allen, Stuart Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1776-7489, Cotton, Simon, Young Jin, Chun and William, Scanlon 2017. Evolution of cooperation in device-to-device communication. Presented at: COCOA – COmpetitive and COoperative Approaches for 5G networks, Dresden, Germany, 17 May-2017. European Wireless 2017; 23th European Wireless Conference. Berlin: VDE,

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Abstract

Device-to-device (D2D) communications are a promising paradigm to improve spectral efficiency in cellular wireless networks by enabling peer to peer communication. In particular, short D2D links can be used to relay data to reduce the burden on core infrastructure. However, this relies on some mechanism to either enforce or incentivise nodes to donate their resources in order to act as a relay without any guarantee that this will be reciprocated in the future. Indirect reciprocity has been well studied from the perspective of human behaviour, proposing mechanisms and conditions under which such behaviour naturally evolves. In this paper we consider D2D networks that formulate the decision to share resources as a donation game using a model of social comparison and examine the conditions under which cooperation evolves without the need for a central authority. Experimentation shows that the emergence of cooperation is sensitive to network conditions, such as node density and noise.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Publisher:	VDE
ISBN:	978-3-8007-4426-8
Funders:	EPSRC
Last Modified:	26 Jun 2024 01:05
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/100832

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