Fundamentals and Issues with Cooperation in Networking
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Tarik Guelzim · 2011
Cooperative transmission can be useful for users with single antennas and where there are no dedicated relays. This chapter discusses the fundamentals of cooperative networks and the services that they present. Cooperative quality of service (CQoS) and cooperative data caching play an important role in enhancing network throughput and capacity as well as availability. Cooperation today is focused on layers 1, 2 and 3 of the OSI model allowing existing application to benefit from it transparently or with minimal change. There are some security issues with cooperation that are inherent in wireless ad hoc networks. Some flaws that attackers can use to either provoke a Denial of Service (DoS) on the network or to leverage the capacity of their nodes to the detriment of others, but hogging cooperative resources or launching Wide Area Network (WAN) level attacks. Controlled Vocabulary Terms security of data; wireless sensor networks