The Design of Mobility-Aware Tag-Based Cooperation For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

This article describes the Mobility-aware Tag-based Cooperation (MaTaCo) approach to cooperation enforcement in mobile environments or MANETs. The MaTaCo approach models individual nodes in mobile environments or MANETs as adaptive tag-based agents capable of adapting their cooperation to changing mobile environment. In contrast to existing work on tag-based cooperation, MaTaCo provides a mobility-aware tag design that incorporates a mobility metric. This allows an agent to measure its tag similarity to its neighbor's based on their relative mobility. Each agent runs the MaTaCo protocol locally which leads to global cooperation enforcement in the network.