An Enforceable Incentive Scheme in Wireless Multi-path Inter-session Network Coding Game

There are some selfish nodes in wireless mesh networks multi-path inter-session network coding; and all selfish nodes maximize their earnings through the game. In this paper, a stimulus scheme is proposed which is suit for selfish nodes game in a multi-path inter-session network coding game. In the multi-path transmission, we use the watch dog checks the existence of selfish nodes. After selfish nodes are detected, we modified the multi-path protocols. For multi-path selfish nodes, we adopt non-cooperation method to punish it; and that the priority forwarding is used to active cooperation nodes. It is proved that Nash equilibrium is acquired for all players to obey the incentive scheme honestly. Experiments verify the theoretical analysis.