A signaling game for uncertain data delivery in selfish mobile social networks

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 100-112

  Xia, Feng ^a   Jedari, Behrouz ^a   Yang, Laurence Tianruo ^b   Ma, Jianhua ^c   Huang, Runhe ^c  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mobile social networks (MSNs); Node selfishness; Opportunistic data routing; Signaling game

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

BAYESIAN NASH EQUILIBRIA; MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PERFECT BAYESIAN EQUILIBRIUMS; REALITY MININGS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL OBJECTIVES; UNCERTAIN DATAS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84978285931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2329924X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2016.2584103     Document Type: Article

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