DISCOURAGING ROGUE PEERS IN A MULTICAST CONTENT DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL FOR MANETS.

Rogue peers are a concern because they decrease the utility of the resource-sharing systems, potentially towards to the system collapse. We are currently deploying Peer-to-MANET, a multicast peer-to-peer approach to distribute contents on mobile ad hoc networks. This work presents our efforts to improve trust and fairness, avoiding rogue and selfish peers, in Peer-to-MANET. We employ a modified version of the Network of Favors as a decentralized reputation system to punish rogue peers activities. Through simulations in NS-2, we show that our solution minimizes download success rate by rogue peers and avoid that maliciously peers cause resource depletion of other peers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]