A Multi-User Game-Theoretical Multipath Routing Protocol to Send Video-Warning Messages over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Sensors

Ahmad Mohamad Mezher¹  Mónica Aguilar Igartua¹  Luis J. de la Cruz Llopis¹  Esteve Pallarès Segarra¹  Carolina Tripp-Barba²  Luis Urquiza-Aguiar¹  Jordi Forné¹  Emilio Sanvicente Gargallo¹ 

[1] Department of Network Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC),C. Jordi Girona 1-3, Barcelona 08034, Spain; E-Mails:;Faculty of Computer Science, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mazatlan 82107, Mexico; E-Mail:

关键词: Mobile ad hoc networks;    Vehicular ad hoc networks;    smart cities;    adaptive multipath routing;    game theory;    Nash equilibrium;    video-streaming services;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s150409039

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The prevention of accidents is one of the most important goals of ad hoc networks in smart cities. When an accident happens, dynamic sensors (e.g., citizens with smart phones or tablets, smart vehicles and buses, etc.) could shoot a video clip of the accident and send it through the ad hoc network. With a video message, the level of seriousness of the accident could be much better evaluated by the authorities (e.g., health care units, police and ambulance drivers) rather than with just a simple text message. Besides, other citizens would be rapidly aware of the incident. In this way, smart dynamic sensors could participate in reporting a situation in the city using the ad hoc network so it would be possible to have a quick reaction warning citizens and emergency units. The deployment of an efficient routing protocol to manage video-warning messages in mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) has important benefits by allowing a fast warning of the incident, which potentially can save lives. To contribute with this goal, we propose a multipath routing protocol to provide video-warning messages in MANETs using a novel game-theoretical approach. As a base for our work, we start from our previous work, where a 2-players game-theoretical routing protocol was proposed to provide video-streaming services over MANETs. In this article, we further generalize the analysis made for a general number of N players in the MANET. Simulations have been carried out to show the benefits of our proposal, taking into account the mobility of the nodes and the presence of interfering traffic.Finally, we also have tested our approach in a vehicular ad hoc network as an incipient start point to develop a novel proposal specifically designed for VANETs.

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